Howl At The Moon!
Posted by: Deborah Findling
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4:45PM, Wednesday June 10th 2009
We all had one. A kid in our junior high school class who wore a wolf T-shirt, I mean. That kid was ahead of the curve, as the wolf T is suddenly oh-so ironically in. The craze started when a T-shirt, with three wolves illustrated on it, went up for sale on Amazon and inspired fake review after fake review of how much customers enjoyed their purchase. Suddenly, the wolf T because the site’s number one best selling item in the apparel section. Here’s a sampling of the reviews that helped make it a best seller:
“I have been wearing this shirt for about 15 weeks and I have not needed to wash it! You don’t put this shirt on your torso you put it on your soul. The day I bought this shirt I lost 300 lbs!” —B.Prince
“I had a two-wolf shirt for a while and I didn’t think life could get any better. I was wrong. Life got 50% better, no lie.”—Seth G. Macy
“I believe that wearing this t-shirt has made me a better man, which is remarkable because, well….I’m a chick.” —Diane
“It’s, amazing, this only works out at $5 per wolf - with the moon thrown in free! Yep, three awesome howling wolves and a free moon - who can argue with value like that, especially on unemployment benefits in these tough economic times.” —G.Smith
Jack Black gave the shirt celeb-cred by sporting his while promoting his new movie “Year One.” Will this kill the buzz? Make it even more popular? Or will something else—say, hyper-color—take its place? [$15.95, Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt, Amazon]
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tabby
wrote on June 10 2009 @ 05:11 pm: [report]
I was totally that kid in middle school. And so was my best friend.
sam04
wrote on June 10 2009 @ 05:46 pm: [report]
Oh, I was one better than that kid. I had the same shirt but in mauve with galloping MUSTANGS on it. I wish I still had that shirt…
OhSoloMeeeow
wrote on June 10 2009 @ 09:03 pm: [report]
I had three such shirts in middle school!
CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on June 11 2009 @ 06:58 am: [report]
The Frisky is slow…even 60 Minutes with those old fogeys picked this up before you guys.
Lynn
wrote on June 11 2009 @ 09:55 am: [report]
OK, I was actually just thinking last night about a wolf shirt that I had in grade school that I LOVED and swore I would never part with.
I don’t know what ever happened to it. Sigh. I wish I still had it.
twinkles
wrote on June 11 2009 @ 02:47 pm: [report]
I had the same shirt sam04!!! It was so awesome. BTW, did amazon delete all the reviews???
laeiryn
wrote on December 30 2009 @ 10:06 pm: [report]
Oh, oh oh! Can we bring Hypercolor back? Please? I loved those things! I still HAVE a Hypercolor t-shirt! IT doesn’t change anymore, but still.
For those of you who don’t know - Hypercolor was a brand that mastered the amazing art of COLOR CHANGING FABRIC. When you wore it, it would change colors with your body heat. Great in theory, awful in actuality, cos it meant a lot of people went around in a purple t-shirt with BRIGHT PINK ARMPITS.
Anyway, these wolf tees are awesome, and they were awesome back in the 90s too.