ReDickielous

Yes, it's another installment of the ongoing t-shirt chronicles. I spotted this item yesterday in the window of a new-ish children's clothing store on the edge of Soho. To the layperson, it might seem like a pretty innocuous t-shirt boasting the legend, "The Cookies." Lamentable music geeks and aging punk rock aficionados like myself, however, will undoubtedly recognize the font and design as lifted from the logo of long-running Los Angeleno wisenheimer punk band, The Dickies. Unlike some other similar appropriations (like Uniqlo's hijacking of the Black Flag bars), this particular pilferage doesn't really bother me so much. I'm not outraged on behalf of the band or the scene from which they sprung. I'm simply bemused by the fact that the shape of the logo remains unchanged. In a ....er.... nutshell, if you slap this t-shirt on your child, you should probably be aware that it's essentially a depiction of a flaccid penis and its accompanying scrotum (look again, why don't you?) If you're cool with that, good on'ya!

It also made me laugh that this t-shirt costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $100.

Meanwhile, here are the Dickies back in their heyday...