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Pastry vs. Johnny Cupcakes?

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From Johnny Cupcakes:

Ran­domly putting baked items on t-shirts and hav­ing an entire brand revolve around it is free for any­one to do. I don’t own food. How­ever, I did indeed start this brand of mine 8 years ago, hav­ing it’s main focus be revolved around cup­cakes and any­thing asso­ci­ated with it. In the inde­pen­dent t-shirt indus­try, I believe I was the first per­son to go all out with this cup­cake / bak­ing motif. I’ve made a tremen­dous amount of sac­ri­fices and risks to make it the home­grown, fam­ily run, fun, lim­ited busi­ness that it is, since I dropped out of high school and sold my t-shirts out of my rusty car. With my brands main focus on my cus­tomers and their expe­ri­ence, I think I’ve been doing a pretty swell job at it.

Last Spring I was alerted by a cus­tomer who hap­pened to work at a pop­u­lar mall sports­wear store. This cus­tomer of mine caught a glimpse of his manager’s cat­a­log which had var­i­ous items that were being released in the near future at all of their mall loca­tions. One of the items in this com­pa­nies cat­a­log was a “Make Pas­try Not War” t-shirt. Not only was it a very sim­i­lar slo­gan, but it had the same EXACT place­ment, font, EVEN A CUPCAKE in the cen­ter of the t-shirt. This was no coin­ci­dence. Weeks later my inbox was flooded with furi­ous Johnny Cup­cakes cus­tomers who saw this same cat­a­log with the ‘Pas­try’ design in it. I could of made a big deal about it online, mak­ing every­one else aware of it. Instead, I decided not to be a cry baby and post it all over the inter­net, so I sought out a dif­fer­ent route. I decided to con­tact my trade­mark attor­ney, who then con­tacted the own­ers of Pas­try / Pas­try Kicks. We got in touch with the Pres­i­dent of a cer­tain mall chain-store who ended up declin­ing the order of all ‘Make Pas­try Not War’ t-shirts.

Recently I’ve received sev­eral e-mails from con­fused and upset cus­tomers of mine. Now, 2 other designs have appeared on their web­site. You be the judge…

pastrywarcomparisongg3
pastrysupportcomparisonfw8
pastryfreshlybakedcompaxn8

The thing that baf­fles me, is why would two girls who’re famous via MTV, have to stoop so low to cre­ate such sim­i­lar items, never mind brand? Maybe they’re both really great girls who hap­pened to hire some not-so-great design­ers? I’m not sure what the case is, but I do know that this should be brought to every­ones attention.

Spread the word, re-post all of this, and/or express your opin­ions to ALL of the con­tacts below:

Cus­tomer ser­vice toll free Num­ber
1–800-970‑0776
Mon-Fri 9AM-6PM. Sat 10AM-5PM (ET).

http://www.pastrykicks.com/contact/
http://www.myspace.com/pastrykicks

help@pastrykicks.com
hr@adjmi-apparel.com

Nice Kicks on 2008-10-17

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Supra TUF Vaider — Black/Black-White
Part of Supra’s 2008 Hol­i­day col­lec­tion. It fea­tures a black/black base and a white mid­sole, along with a new slid­ing tongue logo.

Nike Ter­mi­na­tor Hybrid — 2009
These are set to release some­time in 2009. It fea­tures a con­trast­ing stitch, new mid­sole, hybrid boot uppers, along with var­i­ous detail­ing sim­i­lar to Nike’s ACG models.

Source via Sole­Dic­tion.

Johnny Cupcakes’ “There’s Something in the Cupcake Mix” Third Series

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Though quite new in Los Ange­les, Johnny Cup­cakes (JC) have been well known and received way before open­ing their first ever store in Boston. Any­ways, to keep things short (since peo­ple are already in line), JC is hav­ing a third series release of its very lim­ited col­lec­tion, “There’s Some­thing in the Cup­cake Mix” The release “con­sists of 4 extremely lim­ited, exclu­sive t-shirts that are released once a year, dur­ing the Hal­loween sea­son. This year they will even be more scarce due to the split­ting between both loca­tions, Boston and LA.”

A few new details about series #3:

  • Designs have been turned up a notch + bring­ing some ghoul­ish, famil­iar faces to the kitchen table.
  • Bet­ter box design + construction.
  • More hid­den gems.
  • These will NOT be avail­able online, only in Boston + LA.
  • 4 designs. 1 col­or­way of each. 150 total of each. Split between both Boston + LA = 75 pieces per design. Split between sizes and gen­ders = only a hand­ful to a dozen of each size, per gen­der, per design.
  • Every t-shirt will have a silk screened num­ber on the back, to guar­an­tee authenticity.
  • Each box will be hand numbered.
  • Each box will be equipped with dif­fer­ent hid­den trivia per­tain­ing to the lim­ited mon­ster inside.
  • A vanilla frost­ing scented scratch ‘n’ sniff sticker will be on top of each box.
  • When open­ing up your sealed box, you will have to dust real sprin­kles off of your sealed t-shirt.
  • We are encour­ag­ing every cus­tomer to DRESS UP in your best costumes.
  • Real cup­cakes, bev­er­ages and some pizza pizza will be given out the night of.
  • A spe­cial lim­ited, dated shirt will be given out to the first 100 or so customers.
  • Pho­tos + video webisodes will be taken at both releases.
  • All of this and more for $75 per col­lectible product.
  • These will sell out. We encour­age you to arrive early (like now!)

For those who are new and would like to expe­ri­ence the com­mo­tion and jour­ney, here are the release time and locations:

  • Fri­day, Octo­ber 17th, 9pm East­ern
    @ 279 New­bury Street
    Boston, MA 02116
  • Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 18th, 9pm Pacific
    @ 7959 Mel­rose Ave.
    Los Ange­les, CA 90046

Stay warm, well fed and good luck!

Brand New Okayplayer T-Shirts for Fall 2008

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Sick nasty. I think I might grab Questlove’s DOPE tee (as seen above). There’s plenty of designs to go around, but just don’t know in terms of how much they pressed for this line. Some shirts are on pre­sale and are either ship­ping this week, or in 2-weeks (week of Oct. 27th). Any­ways, check them out at store.okayplayer.com

Here’s a cou­ple more that I liked from the line:

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