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Some students at Waynesboro High School like to express their southern heritage with Confederate clothing, but others are taking offense, sparking debate from both sides.

"We wear a little rebel flag and we get barked at," says Waynesboro Junior Shawn Terrell. "It doesn’t make any sense."

Terrell and his friends like to wear Confederate clothing.

"It’s just my heritage," he says. "[I was] Born and raised in the South. I’m a southern boy. That’s all it is."

Lately, the rebel logo is causing disruption in class, so much that teachers are asking Terrell and others to take them off.

"We can only ask students to change their shirts or to not wear something if it is disrupting instruction in our schools, but we have to prove that," says Waynesboro Principal Sue Wright.

But senior Brett Wallace doesn’t see why it’s such a big deal.

"I just think it’s a flag," he says. "It’s a southern flag, and if you want to fly it, fly it."

There is no ban on wearing Confederate clothing to school. The school sees this debate as a learning tool for students.

"What a perfect time to have a hard issue come up and discuss it in an educational environment, and my staff is using it that way," says Wright.

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Posted By: Maritza Nunez

You want your clothes to last as long as possible, but does paying more for a piece of clothing guarantee it will last longer? As News 4 WOAI Trouble Shooter Jaie Avila found out, that theory doesn’t always hold up in the wash.
T-shirts may be the most baffling items in your dresser. Some seem to last forever, others fall apart after a few washings. So how much does price have to do with that? We tried a little experiment.

First, we purchased four different T-shirts: one was less than $7 at Walmart. Another from Target was about $8. Then we bought a couple that were a bit more expensive. A t-shirt from the Gap was $16.50, and one from Ann Taylor Loft cost $24.

Then we took them to the laundromat and ran them through a series of washings, to see how each one held up.

We followed the care instructions on the labels and started washing… and drying… and waiting… and washing… and waiting some more… until we had put the shirts through 20 cycles.

And the results?

As you would expect, the most expensive t-shirt, purchased at Ann Taylor Loft for $24, held up well. You almost can’t tell the difference between it and a brand new shirt.

But the same could be said for the cheapest shirt, the one we bought for $7 from Walmart.

It shrank a little bit, when compared to the new shirt, and the color faded some, but the stitching held together just fine.

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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. About 600 people are hoping to get their hands on a banned T-shirt in a growing battle between two California towns over who gets to call itself the real Surf City U-S-A.

Huntington Beach lawyers gave a Santa Cruz shop until last Friday to stop selling a shirt that pairs the words Santa Cruz and Surf City with a little U-S-A.

Huntington Beach trademarked the name Surf City U-S-A in May.

The store — Noland’s on the Wharf — sold out of its 85 banned shirts on Saturday morning.

Six hundred more shoppers have added their names to a waiting list hoping to score the forbidden shirt.

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By JONDI GUMZ
Sentinel staff writer

SANTA CRUZ — Souvenir T-shirts proclaiming Santa Cruz as "Surf City California USA" will soon be history.

Noland’s on the Wharf, which sells the T-shirts, is among the first to receive a "cease and desist" letter from attorneys hired by the Huntington Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau to protect its "Surf City, USA" trademark.

"I never expected that a $17 T-shirt could cause such a stir," said Bruce Noland, 48, who with his mom, Ginger, runs the business started by his grandfather. "It’s intimidating. We’ve got quality waves, but maybe not the deep pockets Orange County has."

It’s the latest in a heated rivalry between the two beach communities.

Noland ordered the T-shirts from Yesterdays Sportswear in Paso Robles "not thinking it could get us into trouble." He sold 300 in a year and had received another shipment when the lawyers’ letter arrived a week ago.

He said he hadn’t seen the final outcome of the 18-month fight over the Surf City USA name.

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Tumi Makgetla | Johannesburg, South Africa

The T-shirt tells the story of the South African clothing industry and the struggle to maintain local production against the wave of cheap imports from China.

An imported T-shirt typically sells for R15,90 on the shelves of a well-known South African retail chain targeting the lower-end of the market.

The retail group, which asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of price information, said it marks T-shirts up by 15% to 19% from an original price of around R13.

Assuming that the company paid the almost 40% tariff on clothing products, the product cost about R8 when it entered South Africa.

In contrast, South African-made T shirts sell for between R19 and R29 in the same retail store.

Using this price structure, the lowest a local factory could have supplied the retail company at is R15,40 — nearly twice the landed price of the Chinese garment.

Between 1995 and last year, the value of T-shirts South Africa imported from China soared from R600 000 to R320-million, according to Quantec data.

The domestic economy saw clothing imports grow as the tariff dropped from a 74% average in 1995 to 33,2% in 2004.

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Italian politicians condemned the sale of T-shirts reading “The Hammers vs. the Mafia” before West Ham’s UEFA Cup match against Sicilian side Palermo.

“The T-shirt gesture . . . is deplorable,” Carlo Vizzini, a former member of the Italian parliament’s anti-Mafia commission, was quoted as saying Friday by Italian news agency ANSA. “Perhaps it would be suitable for West Ham . . . to apologize to Palermo’s citizens.”

The T-shirts were on sale outside West Ham’s Upton Park stadium before Thursday’s game in the first round of European soccer’s second-tier competition. The London club lost the match 1-0.

Sicily’s governor, Salvatore Cuffaro, said that the T-shirts were “an offense to all Sicilians,” who were “tired” of outdated stereotypes.

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