Our Special Breakout T-Shirts

For a while we've been promising our customers a special promotion on our t-shirts and so we've decided to give them exactly what they want, thanks to our exclusive Breakout T-Shirt section.
Starting today we will be selecting a design from our website which we will be available for our customer's wearing pleasure at the hairy palmed price of just £10.99. This promotion will only last for a limited time as we have just a specific number of each selected design to include in this discount. Our very first Breakout t-shirt is our Jaws tribute tee, Sharkspotter Amity Island, and is currently available for £10.99 HERE

Trailers From Hell Is A Friend Of The S.D.F.C.

A while ago American comedian/writer/actor Patton Oswalt sent us a couple of pics of him wearing our Charley Varrick and Cutty's Boxing Gym t-shirts. To describe our reaction at the time as excited would have been a huge understatement, so imagine our delight only a few weeks ago when we received an e-mail from Josh Olsen, a long time friend of Mr Oswalt's, who is also a regular contributor to the excellent website Trailers From Hell. Josh kindly informed us that he loved the shirts we had sent Patton and so he ordered some for himself, explaining that he planned to wear them whilst filming a segment for the website. One of the tees he picked was our Gremlins tribute shirt Dorry's Tavern, which he loved and wanted to wear as an in-joke for the director of the movie Joe Dante who actually helps to run Trailers From Hell. A double whammy for us, a fan of our shirts wearing one whilst filming a segment for a website we frequent, which is also run by one of our all time favourite movie directors.

Fast forward a couple of months and Josh has now filmed the segment, which you can watch below, and as promised he wore the t-shirt, but what is even more mind blowing, for us at least, is the video he shot was for the Kentucky Fried Movie trailer, a film which we took inspiration from to set up The State Dept Of Fashion Corrections and the name of our fictional Warden In Chief - Big Jim Slade.
We're not sure if Josh is aware of this coincidence but it tickled us pink to make the connection. Be sure to check out the rest of the excellent website Trailers From Hell, which any self-respecting movie fan will adore.

N.B. The reason Dorry's Tavern shows up as being blue is because of the green screen behind Josh.

The February Freeze

This is the current view outside the S.D.F.C. right now. Gorgeous isn't it? There's something about a heavy snowfall which stirs the imagination and teleports you back to simpler less stressful times. The snow has been threatening to fall for some time now and after a week of just slightly cold weather the temperature dropped and the the white stuff came down. Apparently in Aviemore it plummeted to -18 on Sunday evening.

However, no matter how cold it is outside things have been heating up nicely inside, as we've been hard at work getting new designs printed and uploaded onto the website. You can view them below:

Lone Pine Mall - Back To The Future

V8 Interceptor Wanted - Mad Max 2

Jaws Cast List - Jaws

Last Of The Independents - Charley Varrick

That is all.

Apologies

We realise that the radio silence on here has been deafening but that was mainly due to a hectic festive period in terms of work and socialising, but now with all of that over we can focus on keeping you guys updated on the latest developments at the S.D.F.C. We've released two new tees this week, (click on the pics for more info), one is a tribute to the 80s Sci-Fi classic Back To The Future and the other references Mad Max, (in a classified advert style). There is a reason for the basic design of the Lone Pine Mall tee as it's based on the original sign which you see in the film. Yes, we could have added a more detailed pine tree, made it look more artistic and pleasing to the eye, but as a fan of the movie and a friend of the S.D.F.C. pointed out, we would be doing the hardcore fans a disservice. The tee also subtly references an in-movie gag about the name of the mall, if you don't know it then we suggest you watch the movie again.
We have more designs on the way and around 20 current designs to be transferred onto our hoodie section so keep checking back for more regular updates. Enjoy.

Big Thanks

Since we launched our website back in 2006 this time of year has always been our busiest, but over the last six weeks we have been locked away pressing shirts at the S.D.F.C. like our lives depended on it. Not that we are complaining, far from it, especially in the current financial climate.
We have only now managed to surface for some much needed air and sustenance after our busiest pre-christmas period yet and we would like to thank all of our customers, new and returning, for purchasing our t-shirts. We are ecstatic that so many of you get pleasure from wearing our tees, which is really the only reason we ever started up The State Dept Of Fashion Corrections two years ago. We hope 2009 will be yet another exciting year for us and for you, we have a brand new website which we intend to tinker with in the coming 12 months and a few ideas up our sleeves which we hope will give you a few pleasant surprises. Until then friendo have yourself a disgracefully good Christmas.

Buy 2 Get a 3rd Free

With the world's economy in freefall and the doomsday merchants on the news 24/7 literally praying that we enter the greatest recession in 60 years, we thought we should offer you a little pre-xmas cheer in an otherwise thoroughly depressing time. If you go to the site between now and the 24th of Dec and order yourself, (or someone else), two t-shirts you'll get a third absolutely free. If you click on Christmas Steve above you can read all the details on how to go about getting three t-shirts for the price of two. Happy shopping.

Win Yourself A T-Shirt For Only £1

We've just launched our special Secret Santa Giveaway offer on our main website. The rules couldn't be simpler, just purchase an entry ticket costing only £1 and you could be one of three lucky winners to pick a t-shirt of your choice come December 15th. Read about the offer and the details HERE

Worst Photo Shoot Ever!

We have no idea who Heidi Montag or Spencer Pratt are and nor do we have any burning ambition to find out. We are guessing they are a pair of vapid reality TV stars who have modelled their entire lives around the Barbie and Ken dolls. 

So why, we here you ask, write a blog post about them? Well as you'll see from the pictures in the link below they have appeared in what could only be described as the most ridiculous and unintentionally hilarious photo shoot ever. 

Apparently these two "stars" are rabid supporters of the McCain and Palin campaign and as you will see from their t-shirts, (especially Ken's...sorry Spencer's),they have embraced the right-wing republican way of thinking, with all the might their little cleanly shaven and well moisturised bodies could muster.

PHOTO SHOOT HERE  

New Website Is Live

After a very lengthy lay off from blogging we have returned. The reason we took a hiatus was mainly due to the construction of our brand new website, which is now up and running, (at the same domain: http://www.bonaroo.co.uk/). There are a few changes which you will notice, as we are now selling hoodies and polar bear friendly tote bags, (for all you ecologically aware), and we have a gallery feature and a mini blog on our homepage. All in all the site is looking great and is now a lot easier for our customers to use and more importantly, now the hard work is more or less over, we can get back to blogging.

Plagiarist Express

There is nothing more annoying in life than having your hard work stolen and some other cretin take the glory for the time and energy you invested.

As t-shirt designers we know how common a problem plagiarism can be, but when a movie director claims the limelight for a product he quite clearly ripped off, action must be taken.

Here's a guy who we imagine would be, like every other film director, overly protective of his own creative work but David Gordon Green, director of the new Seth Rogen comedy Pineapple Express, doesn't quite see it that way when it comes to other people's intellectual property.
In the movie James Franco's character wears a t-shirt with the print of a great white shark devouring a kitten, a design which was first released in 2005 by WOWCH. But in a recent interview Franco states that David Green designed the t-shirt and after WOWCH chatted with the movie's lawyers it appears they don't have any hope of recieving even an apology. This is mainly because the design has been reversed and darkened slightly!!!

There is no other word for this kind of behaviour, it's theft. The guys over at WOWCH worked hard to come up with an original design and now the t-shirt which they created is about to be part of what looks like a popular cult movie, only the director is claiming it as his own. That's low in anyone's books. What's even worse is WOWCH only now want some free passes to see Pineapple Express and some popcorn when they get there and that looks doubtful too.

You can read about the whole affair HERE.

Intermission

Apologies for the recent radio silence folks, but we've been busy at work not just on new t-shirt designs but on a brand new website. We should be up and running in the next month with a whole batch of new features and products which we hope you'll enjoy. Plus we will also be running some special promotions and discount sales soon, something we've been promising to do for a long, long time. We'll keep you updated as the construction continues. That is all.

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.