T-Shirts For The Starry-Eyed

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Do you idolise? Do you love your celebrities? I must admit I have a love-hate relationship with them all in general, I mean they’re for the main part paid beyond the wildest expectations of the ordinary man or woman, but nevertheless they have to be at the top of their game or they wouldn’t be able to afford their grand mansions in the leafier suburbs of Beverly Hills and the like. Still I have a soft spot for a few, the faux-genius of Andy Warhol, the dark hymns of lost soul Kurt Cobain, the machine-gun delivery and lambastery of Bill Hicks, hang on wait a minute they’re all dead? Hmm… perhaps that’s the trick, you can only truly be a star if you’re dead. Still there are plenty of living celebs with more than a smattering of cool about them and that’s exactly what WornFree.com are all about.

I was surprised to receive an email from their PR agency GorgeousPR.com, I mean it doesn’t take too much effort for Worn Free to write a quick personal email about their t-shirts, oh well I’d better get myself a literary agent and start charging fees for my posts :p Don’t worry folks, I’m not about to sell out, I’m too lefty. For a start, I was talking to my old man (cockney for ‘dad’ as in ‘follow the van‘) the other day, he made an appearance for the evening before crashing out drunk on the sofa. Anyway, we had a chat and the conversation turned to the unsavoury subject of money, as it usually does, this is the guy who’s been telling me ‘when I win the lottery’ for over a decade now. He asked me what I’d do with £18 million (which happens to be Jonathan Ross‘ wage for a year of blabbing on British TV and radio (don’t ask). I told him, dad that is, not J.R, I’d buy an island, I’d make it self-sufficient, import a whole heap of abandoned, maimed and generally unwanted animals and feed them till they burst (not literally of course). If there were islanders there I’d make sure they had everything they needed or wanted, healthcare, clean water, anything to improve their lives, and I’d probably end up living in around about the same size house do now, typing away on a blog or two. See, what’s the point of money eh?

Okay, okay, celebrity t-shirts… Worn Free have come up with the novel idea of producing famous t-shirts ‘as worn by celebrities’, and here are a few to quench your thirst for a t-shirt related review (which after all is most likely why you’re here).

Talk of the Devil, well not quite, but there you go, coincidence works in mysterious ways. I used to love Nirvana – perhaps I’m getting old or maybe the Foos took the edge off for me, there’s only so much rock family history you can follow before you find you’d rather listen the sounds of the sea crashing on the beach or a distant train going by, I am getting old aren’t I? Anyway Grunge is most definitely dead as it says so on the t-shirt.

Cor! I think that Debbie Harry may have constituted a major part of my earliest crush as a kid, it wasn’t just her looks, she was a smouldering singer too, and even though I did spend my childhood calling her ‘Blondie‘ the effect is still pretty much the same. She’s hot and the t-shirt’s not bad either, looks like an old World Cup football (no, not soccer, that died in the 50s) shirt to me but I could be wrong. Sorry the photo’s too distracting. Get yours here.

Dublin Sound Studio Tee. James Newell Osterberg, Jr. (born April 21, 1947), better known as Iggy Pop rocks, there’s no two ways about it, the guy is made from steel and apart from a few dodgy albums in the past he can do no wrong in my eyes. He’s mental sure, but that’s the price you pay for being a punk rock god. I quite like the tee too, but in general I think it’s more about the cachet with WF, most of the designs wouldn’t usually make you bat an eyelid (there go any mentions on their Worn Free’s press page – the price of truth is high), but at least you can pretend you’re a pop star for a while. I think that Worn Free need to change a few things, less of the logo tees, more great graphic t-shirts wherever possible, I mean I wouldn’t care how awful the associated celebrity was if the design was amazing.

Something else, sack the PR, or at least take the time out to contact your reviewers personally, I mean press releases are kind of impersonal, kind of, what am I saying, they’re the written equivalent of sticking two fingers up at bloggers. Sorry, that’s the Socialist in me speaking out of turn, yet again. I don’t know, if you love celebrities and fame in general, if you want to emulate your favourite stars then maybe you should take a look at WornFree.com. There are tees worn by John Lennon, Johnny Ramone and other groovy idols, but in all honesty do you think that they wore them because someone famous wore them first? I doubt it.

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