Heart-breaking and heart-warming T-shirts

April 21st, 2008

A T-shirt which features a picture of Princess Diana along with the text She’s Dead, so get over it has gone on sale. The Australian manufacturers, Goatboy, have courted controversy not just with the shirt but with spoof adverts showing  images of the Queen and Prince Phillip wearing the £25 shirts – yes, £25! Goatboy say the T-shirts are an ironic comment on the Diana industry which continues a decade after her death. ‘We’ve had Diana china memorial plates, tacky … figurines, and the endlessly touring exhibitions of her musty old frocks Now after six months of the shamelessly lurid inquest - isn’t it time we all got over it?’  said a spokesman for the company.  Perhaps recognising the level of criticism they are likely to attract, they have also released a YouTube video in which a young man wearing one of the shirts is attacked by a pensioner who hits him with her walking stick and kicks him in the stomach.

Remember Damart?  That most comfortable of central heating garments for the middle-aged bod?  Well, it’s moved into T-shirt production! The limited edition T-shirt has been created to raise money for Heart Research UK. The shirt bears a diamante heart and all profits will go to the charity to help research in to heart disease - Susan McFadden, star of West End musical Grease, is the campaign model. Damart said, ‘We are delighted to be working in partnership with Heart Research UK. The majority of our customers are women and they do not seem to realise how at risk they are from heart disease. With this campaign we hope not only to raise money for research, but also to increase awareness about the disease.’

Diana plate courtesy of misocrazy

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