T-Shirt Times

Brian Whitaker
Thursday July 27, 2006

The Phoenicians were the greatest traders of the ancient world and the Lebanese are their descendants. In Lebanon, every situation - no matter how dire - is an opportunity for someone to do business.
Ammar runs a shop selling decorative inlaid boxes, hubble-bubble pipes, necklaces, keffiyehs (cotton headdresses), historical-looking artefacts and just about anything else that a tourist in Beirut might be induced to buy.

"You can’t be selling much at the moment," I suggested after he had almost dragged me inside.

"You’d be surprised," he said.

Only the other day, a diplomat who was due to leave Beirut had called in and spent $500 (£270) on souvenirs.

PRESS DON’T SHOOT

"If you don’t like the words I can print something different," he persisted. "You want a car and driver? I can get you one. Very reasonable price."

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 By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 24, 2006; Page A17

BY KYLE BRAZZEL

It has been said that jeans and a T-shirt is the uniform of the American male — but that was before designers and celebrities got involved. Now

that tees can cost as much as $ 50, and denim $ 200, a man might feel too stricken by the price tag of his outfit to carry himself as comfortably as he looks. But you get what you pay for, after a fashion. As the work of Arkansas ’ growing ranks of original T-shirt designers attests, the pricier new breed of tees is more refined in fabric and politics alike. A certain class of wearers is just as likely to inspect clothing labels for the “sweatshop-free” designation as it is to want to see the word “organic” stamped on its vegetables.

But who are we kidding ? All things being equal, as well as flatteringly cut, a shirt bearing an arty rendering of Che Guevara’s face can hold appeal even for those with a threadbare understanding of his principles. As Tshirt prices have gone up, so have their degrees of graphic sophistication, and Arkansas’ fashion artists are in on the act. With bold patterns, self-contained line drawings or couturelike embellishments, artisanal T-shirts are used to signify an independent, creative erudition the same way shirts with athletic-team logos signify sportiness, or those printed with drinking-anddebauching catchphrases signify an up-for-anything goofiness.

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Real American Action Wear’s ride to the crest of the T-shirt wave has come to an end, and with it, the company demise as one of the largest employers in Salida.

Real American eventually expanded into 42 states, selling shirts with scenes specific to each area.

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By Kelly Young

During the course of my high school instruction, I attended two different private schools that each imposed its own dress code on me. As a military brat, I have experienced many different school systems and have observed the various ways that things are done. Since I graduated, it seems as though the newest fashion in public schools is to follow the path of the private schools and go uniform.

It is understandable for school districts to do so. Schools that adopt a uniform dress code generally report less violence, theft and other incidents than were experienced the previous year. However, as a child on the inside of dress codes, I have first-hand knowledge of how they aren’t all they are cracked up to be. So it is with mixed feelings that I hear about JISD’s attempt to pull a fast one by slipping a fairly sweeping dress code change into the July 24 school board agenda.

My first beef with the proposed dress code is economical. With the exception of the few odd millionaires we have here in town, Jacksonville is poor. I’m not being derogatory here, there’s nothing wrong with being poor — I’m poor. But this is a blue-collar town — there’s simply not buckets of money floating around. T-shirts make up a large portion of the average teenager’s wardrobe, even more so in a poor teenager’s wardrobe. Ban them and you’ll have students scrambling to find clothes to wear. Changing the dress code will put considerable financial strain on the last people on earth that need any more.

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OKLAHOMA CITY An Oklahoma woman whose son was killed in Iraq wants his name off anti-war T-shirts being sold on the Internet by a Flagstaff man.

Judy Vincent found out last year about the shirt that lists the names of about 17-hundred soldiers, including the name of her son who died two years ago.

The front of the shirt reads "Bush Lied" and the back reads "They Died."

Judy Vincent persuaded Oklahoma lawmakers to pass a law making it a misdemeanor to use a soldier’s name or likeness without permission. Now Oklahoma Congressman Dan Boren has introduced a similar bill in Congress. The person selling the shirts identifies himself on his Web site as Dan Frazier, owner of a Flagstaff company called CarryaBig Sticker.

Frazier says in an open letter on the site to family members that he’s not trying to degrade the service of the soldiers. But he also says he won’t stop selling the shirts.

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