The birthday girl!

Today is Baton Rouge Storyvillian Erica’s 20th birthday! Erica is a student at LSU, and she enjoys hanging out with her sorority sisters, pinning delicious desserts on Pinterest, playing with her cute puppy, and folding tees at Storyville! Happy Birthday, Erica!!

Available for $26!

Y’all best be ready for Mardi Gras! What better way than to have this exciting revamped tee. “Get In Line”, is a Storyville Original, and is perfect for carnival season. This unique design is printed on American Apparel neon yellow baseball raglan, with purple and green ink. This style is available exclusively at our Magazine shop! If you have any questions regarding this or any other carnival styles call us at 504-304-6209 or email Storyville.NewOrleans@gmail.com. Don’t get caught outta line now!

Come visit us on South Congress to pick up this weeks shirt of the week for ONLY $16!!!

The following designs arrived at the Mall of Louisiana shop today:

Carnival Season Shirts

The King Cake design is printed on a grass green tee and reads: Try a delicious King Cake- There’s a little Jesus in every one!

On the pretty purple shirt, you may recognize the wonderful Marie Antoinette holding a platter of king cake. The text reads: Let Them Eat King Cake!

On the yellow shirt, we have the Mardi Gras Flag.

And, finally, a Royal Crown is printed in purple on a grass green tee.

That Royal Crown is pretty awesome, eh? WELL! Lucky for you, we also have it printed on a grass green scarf. It’s soft and super comfy!

Never really sure how to wear an awesome scarf like that? I’m going to show you a few things you can do with it, so don’t you worry!

Royal Crown Scarf

Above is my personal favorite way to tie a scarf. This is called the double loop-n-through. It’s really simple to do:

1. Double the scarf by folding it to make the two ends meet.

2. Hold it behind your neck with the two ends to one side of you and the “loop” to the other side.

3. Pull one of the scarf ends through the loop (it’s best to pull the blank end).

4. Twist the loop once like you would do to a ponytail after you pull the hair through.

5. Pull the remaining end of the scarf through (the one with the crown on it).

This will make a cool knot look up top. Just play around with it and tighten it to your liking!

Another easy and cute way to wear your scarf is called the regular loop-n-through. This is an easier, simpler version of the one above. Instead of pulling just one section of the scarf through the loop, pull both ends through the loop. Viola! You’re done! Just play around with it until you are comfortable with how it looks.

A third way to tie your scarf, and my final suggestion, it to do a basic knot.
1. To do this, just put the scarf around your neck to where both ends hang on your chest.
Since our scarves are a lot longer than most, you may want to double it to do this one too.
2. Once the ends are in front of you, grab them together with one hand.
3. With your free hand, wrap the ends around your hand. Start on the back of your hand and go to the palm. Once you return to the back of your hand with the scarf, pull the scarf ends under the part of the scarf that’s wrapped to the back of your hand.
4. That’s it! Just pull it as tight as you would like and you  have yourself a knot!

Hope these tips are useful to you! You can easily find tutorials online if you want to try something more challenging.

Happy Mardi Gras!

• KING CAKE
• PARADES
• GATHERING WITH LOVED ONES
• POPEYES CHICKEN (TASTES BETTER DURING CARNIVAL)

I’m sure folks have already decorated for Mardi Gras, but is your wardrobe ready? If not we have you covered! These carnival tees are available at our Magazine St. shop!

Spice up carnival season with these!

Victor Harvey scares away customers at the original shop on Chimes Street, January 2007

Yesterday, Storyville quietly celebrated its fifth birthday. Five years ago, on a cold and overcast day on Chimes Street in Baton Rouge, Storyville opened its doors for the first time. Today, we have five locations in four cities, and there is still so much more that we want to do.

To celebrate this momentous occasion, we’ll be having a year-long celebration. Throughout 2012, we’ll be announcing some promotions and giveaways, and even BIGGER – a brand-new website. Shortly after that, we’ll be launching some design contests for all of you Storyville designer wannabes. Got a tee shirt idea and think it would be a hit in our shops? All you’ll have to do is enter one of our contests, and you can get cash moolah for your brilliant design.

Although we didn’t throw ourselves a big party for turning five, we want to stretch this thing out all year. Stay tuned for all of the exciting things we’re going to roll out! In the meantime, enjoy this photo gallery of some of our signs over the years.

The first real sign at the original Storyville in Austin, on Guadalupe

Our first New Orleans shop, at 2126 Magazine Street

Our "coming soon" banner that served as a makeshift sign at 3029 Magazine Street

Our first real sign at 3029 Magazine Street

Chimes Street, serving as a pop-up shop earlier this year

Our sign at our current Austin shop, on South Congress

Our current sign on Magazine Street

Our Kids Shop sign, also on Magazine Street

Our sign at the Mall of Louisiana

This week at Storyville Kids the design of the week is “Just Hatched” one piece in pink and blue.  Sizes are limited to 3-6 month to 12-18 month. So hurry in! These are a perfect gift for any new parents to be!

For the lil ladies:

For the lil gentlemen: