We Are Gathered Here Today.

To play one of the most addictive and fun filled games consoles ever produced. No, we aren't on comission for Nintendo but their Wii provides us here at the S.D.F.C. with bags of gaming satisfaction. So much so we've designed a t-shirt just for those of you who know the joys of the Wii...drunk or sober.

N.B. We will be adding this tee to our collection in the next few days.

Love Pumps

Women and money, women and shopping, women and shoes. It's like a mathematical equation which always presents the same answer - total satisfaction. A few of our male friends here at the S.D.F.C. have witnessed first hand the changes which take place when a woman is shopping for shoes. The giddiness, the shortness of breath, the trembling voice and the flushed cheeks all for some leather in a heel. Men on the other hand have sport, but in comparison that's nowhere near as satisfying...and we know it.

Off You Go You Small Boys

Most of us here at the S.D.F.C. grew up watching and quoting lines from Bill Forsyth's hilarious teen rom-com, Gregory's Girl. Although this t-shirt might not mean too much to our American cousins, (fanny is the word used in the UK to describe a lady's front bottom), we think the gist of it is there for everyone to understand. Growing up in Scotland and the UK this phrase, taken from the movie, was heard countless times in conversations about the opposite sex. But it's the conclusion of "The lot!", which for some reason never fails to crack us up.

Slashfilm.com Are Our New Friends.

A while back we received a very pleasant e-mail from a guy called Peter Sciretta who confessed his undying love for our Escape From New York tribute tee. Peter, who runs and writes for the San Francisco based movie blog slashfilm.com, apparently fell in love with our t-shirt when he noticed Quint, (a fellow movie buff and blogger, who writes for Aint It Cool News), wearing one at the SXSW festival earlier this year.

So, being the nice guys that we are we sent him out a freebie along with a couple of other shirts which we thought he would appreciate. And appreciate them he did, by giving us our biggest review yet. You can read the article HERE and be sure to check out the rest of his site for all the latest movie news and reviews.

*We also had Peter include a special discount for our shirts for his American readers only, what with the dollar in poor shape against the pound...you see, we really are nice guys.

filmschoolrejects.com

Recently a few of our film tribute t-shirts were featured on the excellent movie blog www.filmschoolrejects.com

We get a massive kick from online articles like this, as we know the people responsible have a love and affinity for the same kind of things we do. Check out the article HERE and also explore their site, it's jam packed with cool movie related stuff you won't find on the bigger more commercial sites. Enjoy.

Same Old Crap!

Here's two new designs we created this month which we hope you'll get a kick out of. The recycle t-shirt basically says it all, we are living in age where originality died a long, long time ago and we're having to put up wit the same old crap, day in, day out. And the Old King Cole tee is the first of a new batch of similar themed t-shirts which we will be uploading onto the website soon.

You'll also start to notice some changes around the S.D.F.C. in the next few weeks, as we're shaking things up a bit on our main website. Among them will be a brand new section exclusively for hoodies and a customer gallery, which we've been promising for some time. There will be other stuff too, including some special deals and discounts, so keep checking back for updates.

What Were They Thinking?

We read about this story in the newspapers last week and thought we should share it with you as it went largely ignored by the mainstream media.
Turns out Hollywood director/actor Woody Allen is suing a clothing company called American Apparel for using an image of him on their advertising billboards, (for those of you who don't know AA are huge in America and are one of the biggest t-shirt suppliers the country has to offer).
Apparently Mr Allen has a strong objection over the use of his image or his body of work to promote anything comercially and as American Apparel failed to seek his approval over the use of his face in their adverts he's suing them for $10m.
This is truly an amazing feat of stupidity, firstly who the f**k goes and uses a famous person's face in a large advertising project without ever consulting with said celebrity for approval and secondly, if you look at the advert what the hell does it have to do with the products they are selling?
Incidentally their last billboard was defaced as it showed a woman bending over in a pair of tights next to the phrase "Gee, I wonder why women get raped?"

Too Much?

We created this t-shirt after a heated office debate about the war in Iraq, in particular the recent figure which showed that more than 4,000 American servicemen had died since the country was invaded. It was suggested by a certain individual in our group, incensed at the actions, lies and betrayl of Bush and Blair that the torch, held by the Statue Of Liberty, should be replaced with "that little f**ker's head on a spike". And the very next day we got to work.
It's probably the strongest t-shirt we've put out so far and we haven't really done a lot of political designs, but we hope you like it nonetheless.

As a point of interest George Bush once said during a conversation with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson about the Iraq war: "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties." Gun, shoot, foot.

Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction!

A while back a few of us here at the S.D.F.C. went to see the Cohen brothers latest movie No Country For Old Men, half of us loved it, half of us hated it. So imagine our suprise when we came across this little nugget of information, which we found posted on a celebrity website blog. This is one strange coincidence:"In the novel 'No Country For Old Men' (but not in the movie), Sheriff Bell says of the dope-dealers, "Here a while back in San Antonio they shot and killed a federal judge."
The author set the story in 1980. In 1979, in San Antonio, Federal Judge John Howland Wood was shot and killed by rifle fire by a Texas freelance contract killer named Charles Harrelson. Actor Woody Harrelson (Carson Wells in the movie) is his son.
Charles Harrelson was sentenced to two life sentences for the murder of Federal Judge John Howland Wood on the orders of drug dealer Jimmy Chagra, who reportedly paid him $250,000. Harrelson has claimed to be one of the "hobos" taken away from "the grassy knoll" right after the shooting of John F. Kennedy.
Harrelson died on March 15th, 2007 in a federal super-maximum prison in Colorado."

You can find out more about Woody's old man HERE over at Wikipedia.

Dinki-Di Dog Food And Other Updates.

Long before he claimed to own the whole of Malibu, in a time before he referred to police women as "Sugar Tits" and blamed every major war on the Jews, Mel Gibson was actually famous for being Mad Max. In our humble opinion the best installment of the Road Warrior trilogy was the second film and it's from that movie that we drew inspiration from, for our latest film tribute tee.

Dinki-Di dog food is the fictional brand of canine sustenance used in the film which both Max and his faithful four legged companion share whilst trying to survive on the barren wasteland highways of the future. The word Dinki-Di is also Australian slang for "genuine" and legend has it they called the dog food that because Gibson insisted on eating the real stuff, taking method acting to a whole new level. So there you have it an inside, subtle movie reference t-shirt for anyone who ever wanted to dress in leather, drive a supercharged car and eat dog food.

Aside from designing new t-shirts we've also been hard at work on updating the site and in the next few weeks you'll notice a few changes around the S.D.F.C, most notabley a new logo, a gallery section, clickable links to our social network pages and a new section for hoodies. We're also pulling out all the stops for this summer and fingers crossed you may actually see us and our stall at a few of the summer music festivals around the UK.

Lovelace & King

Long time no hear, but truth be told we've been busy tidying the website up, getting organised for hitting the summer music festival scene, generating new ideas and designs and working on a special side project which we hope to reveal later in the year...plus some of us ended up addicted to playing Call Of Duty 4 on Xbox Live.

Anyhoo, here's two new tees for your wearing pleasure this month, the first features a replica of the customer service sticker which was stuck onto the body armour of Hannibal King, (played by Ryan Reynolds) in the movie Blade: Trinity.

We understand that the Blade vampire franchise is pretty much dead in the water but why, oh why, didn't they just forge ahead with a Nightstalkers spin off with Reynolds and Biel?


The other tee is a design we came up with ourselves pulling inspiration from a 70s sex comedy farce called Linda Lovelace For President. Those of you not familiar with Lovelace can catch up with her rather tragic life story here, but in short she was one of the world's first commercially recognised porn stars, largely due to her controversial hardcore movie Deep Throat.
That's all for just now folks but we have a ton of new and exciting stuff for you in the pipeline, which we hope will take your fancy.

The Ups & Downs Of December 2007. Part 2: The Ups

Reeling from our missed opportunity with the BBC, (thanks to some clown at Heathrow Airport), we pressed on and distracted ourselves with work. Sifting through the mail one day we came across an unusual letter from a guy called Lyle Christiansen from Minnesota and we immediately recognised him as a previous customer. On opening his letter we found with it a photograph and a photocopy of an article from New York Magazine about the mystery of D.B. Cooper .

This is where things start to get a bit bizarre, as in his letter Lyle explained that he came across our D.B. Cooper's School Of Skydiving t-shirt on our website and felt compelled to buy it because, in his words, he thought it was the best one of it's kind. He also purchased it in memory of his late brother Kenneth who he stated was the real D.B. Cooper.

Now, we've received a lot of weird and wonderful things in the post before, many of which we could never write about, for legal reasons, but this really took us by surprise, especially as it referenced one of our all time favourite unsolved mysteries.
With a fair amount of scepticism we read on and started to digest the accompanying New York Magazine article which Lyle had included with his letter. You can read the whole article for yourself HERE .

To cut a very long story short, it turns out that Lyle's brother Kenneth is now indeed an official suspect in the D.B. Cooper case and aside from the fact that his height and weight may not fit the profile his experience as a sky diver and his past history certainly do. So there you have it on a random rainy Tuesday morning we receive a wonderful letter and photograph from what could be the brother of D.B. Cooper, the only man in American history to carry out a skyjacking and evade capture from the FBI, unless of course you buy into the theory that he died...something we certainly don't!

N.B. As a point of interest Lyle informed us that in the photogrpah, (pictured above), he's wearing one of his brother's wool lined overcoats, which he may have worn for the jump and he has one of his attache cases which he found when his brother passed away.

The Ups & Downs Of Decemer 2007. Part 1: The Downs

Firstly let us officially wish you a Happy New Year and all the very best for the next 12 months and thanks again to all of our customers who kept us busy throughout the run up to Christmas. Last month was definately full of mixed emotions for us here at the State Dept Of Fashion Corrections. This first part will detail the down side of December for us and the next part will deal with the upside.

Picture the scene we're busy printing up shirts for customers three weeks before Christmas when we get a call from a lovely young lady from the BBC, (for our American readers that stands for British Broadcastng Corporation), who tells us that she loves our John Smeaton and Proudly Banjoing Terrorists t-shirts. We thank her and she goes on to tell us that she's currently involved with filming a documentary about John Smeaton, (the Glasgow airport baggage handler who helped to fight off two terrorists intent on blowing the place up), for the BBC entitled An Accidental Hero and that it would be really cool if we could supply her with some free t-shirts. So we agree, after all it's not everyday we get a phonecall from the BBC. She explains that the film crew will be followng Smeaton to New York where he'll be presented with a special CNN Everyday Superhero Award and will meet with stars such as Mary J Blige, Glen Close, Kevin Bacon and Billy Connelly and that she and the rest of the crew would love to hand out our t-shirts to the stars. As you can imagine we get a tad excited about the prospect of our t-shirts being handed out to Hollywood celebs so we agree to supply her with a batch of Smeaton and Banjoing Terrorists t-shirts and we post them out to her two days before the crew are due to fly out to New York. She is overjoyed and promises to phone us when the she returns from the Big Apple.

Four days later and true to her word we get the call, but we realise straight away that something is wrong. She tell's us that they all made it to New York only to discover that Heathrow Airport staff had placed the wrong labels on all of their luggage and that they spent the entire three days with no change of clothes, laptops, camera equipment or, more importantly for us, t-shirts. So there you have it folks, what could have been a massive opportunity for the S.D.F.C turned into a non-event, we had visions of watching LL Cool J flexing his man cannons whilst wearing Proudly Banjoing Terrorists t-shirt. Apparently nobody seems to know where the the t-shirts ended up, so if you settle down to watch the news one night and are surprised to see some kids running around Somalia or Kazakhstan with John Smeaton's face plastered over their chests, you know the story behind their t-shirts.

The Xmas Rush

Hey folks, not long now till the festive season kicks into high gear and don't worry if you've just recently placed an order with us, we'll try our very best to get it sent off ASAP. We run a 5-10 working day dispatch policy, which basically means when you place an order with us we will dispatch it within 5-10 days, (weekends not included). Usually we send out orders within a day or two but as you can imagine we have been slammed with Xmas orders and things here at the S.D.F.C. have been busier than normal. Any queries drop us a line at info@bonaroo.co.uk

A Man Called Quint

A while ago we sent out one of our Quint's Great White Fishing Trips tees to, funnily enough, a guy called Quint who writes and contributes for the excellent movie website Ain't It Cool News. That was a few months ago and to be honest we had forgotten all about it until just last week, when one of our inmates noticed that the big guy had included not only the Quints t-shirt but our Snake Plissken and Karate Kid tees in a review of online gifts to buy for Xmas.

Each year Quint compiles a comprehensive and excellent guide to things online which would make someone smile this festive season, you can read the whole article HERE. We did and going on his recommendations we've ordered The Monster Squad on DVD and that rather excellent Alien Abduction lamp, (pictured above). Genius. So here's a big thanks from all the inmates here at the S.D.F.C. to Quint from AICN. Keep up the good work.

Are You A Gradute From The School Of Hard Props?

This design is basically a take on the famous phrase School Of Hard Knocks and if you've never heard that phrase before it's usually used to describe a person that looks like he/she had a very hard paper round when they were younger....and if you don't know what that means then there really is no hope for you.

We digress, anyway we came up with this design in tribute to those amatuer rugby players who, although lack cool sounding names and the natural athleticism of the likes of Joe Rokocoko or Bryan Habana, put their bodies on the line every Saturday or Sunday. They do so for two reasons, the love of the game and the fact they have a very strong sadomasochistic streak. Let's face it rugby is one of the last true Gladitorial sports left and it's played by sportsmen and women who have graduated from the School Of Hard Props.

Shaun Of The Dead T-shirt

Probably the greatest Rom Zom Com ever made, if not the only one. Shaun Of The Dead taught us that platonic love between two men could exist and that the best way to kill a zombie was to remove it's head or brain. This is admittedly uncharted waters of geekery and nerdism for us here at the S.D.F.C but I think you'll agree it's a t-shirt which would complete any self respecting Shaun outfit for parties or Halloween , all that's missing is a cricket bat and a bunch of flowers. We can't wait to the see what kind of pics will crop up with this t-shirt.

We're Now On Facebook

Yes, we finally decided to take the plunge and enter into the wonderful world of Facebook. If you're already part of this social network then by all means add yourself on and become part of the Dept. Leave a comment, a video a picture or even give us a poke.

Add yourself on HERE

If The Shoe Fits

Take a look at these trainers. They're the Ian Brown inspired limited edition Adidas shoes which we got a first hand look at when one of our old friends dropped by The S.D.F.C. for a visit. He was lucky enough to buy them on ebay for half the price most shops were selling them for and was eager to tell us that you cannot buy them on the high street anymore. Admittedly they do look the part and have an enormous amount of detail. Apparently in 2005, Adidas asked the singer if he would design a pair of trainers to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of their Superstar shoes range, (remember the famous Run DMC trainers?).
So he gave them a special wax coated leather at the front which would repel the Manchester rain and coloured them red and black in honour of Manchester United supporters. He also gave them a gold plated looking tag for the front of the shoe with his initials IB and the eye from the ‘Music Of The Spheres’ album cover was imprinted on the outside of the heel. On the spine of the left heel, was the signature ‘Ian’ and, on the right, ‘Brown’ both stitched in red.
Finally he also added the lyrics of two songs ‘Longsight M13′ and ‘One Way Ticket To Paradise’ to the inside of each inner sole.
Our friend was also pleased to announce that his pair is only one of 5,000 ever produced and have become one of the most collectible pairs ever manufactured. Personally if that's what you're into, then that's what you're into.

Howling Halloween Madness

Just a big thanks to everyone who bought a Teen Wolf t-shirt over the Halloween period and were kind enough to send us their pics. Apparently dressing up as Scott Howard in full basketball playing werewolf mode, was the costume to wear this year and it seems our Beavers tee came in handy for the finishing touches.

"We always wanted the t-shirt to be special...but we never expected this."