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August 8, 2005
Get It While It's Legal
Five days a week, your wardrobe belongs to The Man. But when your time is your own, any fashion statement you make is written on your T-shirt.
And no T-shirt in the world makes more of a statement right now than a Butterscotch Stallion shirt.
What makes these shirts hot? Not just that they bear the visage of this summer's It guy. It's that they're banned from production. Which means they're hard to get. Which means, of course, you've gotta have it.
Numerous online T-shirt retailers have capitalized on the trend toward "Tabloid Ts" — shirts that poke fun at celebrity foibles with phrases like "Free Winona"/"Free Katie." Among them, shirt maker Randy & Moss, whose Olson Twins "Starve Wars" shirt got some cred in People mag recently as shirt of the week.
But when Randy & Moss picked up on Owen Wilson's moniker (as coined by celeb-bashing site Defamer) and put it on a T-shirt, Wilson's people slapped them with a cease and desist order faster than you could say "chicks dig crooked noses."
One thing is certain: This won't be the last cease and desist order for Randy & Moss if they continue using celebrity images to give their shirts scandalous flavor. For you, the trick is to buy early, before the court order goes out.
Randy & Moss's T-shirts can be purchased at RandyandMoss.com. But the Butterscotch Stallion T-shirts have been removed from the site.
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