Posted on 10/17/2002 8:41:42 AM PDT by Rodney King
By KAY CALLAHAN
LOS ANGELES — Geeks are becoming popular party animals, thanks to an incredible new shirt that makes them seem as sexy as Hollywood movie stars!
It’s called the Party Shirt, and it turns social misfits into irresistible hunks. Early tests show the chemically treated shirt drives women wild whenever they come near any man who’s wearing it.
“I used to get tossed out of line any time I tried to get into a hot nightclub,” says Ralph Jarmel, a 22-year-old convenience-store clerk from L.A. “Girls would laugh at my skinny body and my eyeglasses.
“Then I found this incredible shirt, and it’s like Saturday Night Fever every night.”
The Party Shirt is the creation of designer Amanda Lowson, who’s been testing it in fun-loving towns like Los Angeles, New York and Miami. Lowson combined her fashion sense with a degree in chemistry to produce a social lifesaver.
Lowson says the silk-rayon fabric is treated with male sex pheromones, which are chemicals naturally produced by the human body. Pheromones have been scientifically proven to reel in the opposite sex by causing an almost magnetic attraction through the sense of smell.
“We tested the fabric with a group of homely men and a group of attractive women,” Lowson says. “The women barely glanced at the men when the test subjects were wearing ordinary clothing. But when we had them put on the Party Shirt — well, the women latched on to them so fast you’d think the guys had just won the lottery.”
Lowson, who’s still working on a women’s version of the shirt, says she also used color-theory research. “Many studies have shown that people respond positively to vibrant colors and patterns,” she explains. “Our focus groups had extremely positive reactions to the classic Hawaiian shirt, which caused them to view the wearer as fun and hip.”
“No one ever saw me that way before,” says a soft-spoken 27-year-old accountant from Miami. “Then I wore the Party Shirt to a cocktail party, and the next thing I knew I was dancing with two really hot women.”
Scientists are skeptical about the Party Shirt.
“Pheromones are not some kind of magic potion that wipes out all reason in a woman,” says a spokesman for the Human Pheromone Project in Denver. “Once she sniffs you, you’d better be able to keep her interest.”
Lowson agrees completely.
“The pheromones may just be a confidence booster that helps shy men get over their self-consciousness,” she says.
“Perhaps this shirt just gives them the courage to show the truly magnetic personality they had inside them all the time.”
Why did I never see this article?
How did you just find it now?
"I used to get tossed out of line any time I tried to get into a hot nightclub,” says Ralph Jarmel, a 22-year-old convenience-store clerk from L.A. “Girls would laugh at my skinny body and my eyeglasses. "
“Then I found this incredible shirt, and it’s like Saturday Night Fever every night.”
LOL!
There are some things we try to keep from you for the good of us all.
I'm tired of you running things around here.
I'm thinking you should be glad you didn't see it before now. These dudes will still be dateless and have a lighter wallet.
You will still have your irresistable wit.
Why a shirt, why not a spray bottle full of the stuff so anything and everthing can have the odor. That way you could still wash your clothes and use the spray right before leaving the house for a night out on the town.
ooooooo, yer makin' me *hot*
LOL
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Dogs hump your leg with their eyes closed.
Nam Vet
If that's what you want to catch. 8^)
I can't even find any evidence on the web there is a fashion designer named Amanda Lowson.
You would think she would have a website.
In a few years, science is going to have to admit that pheromones really do have an effect on people's attractiveness. I expect Congressional hearings will immediately follow, with an appropriate number of "how dare you"s from the usual suspects and followed by very serious legislation drafted jointly by the Religious Right and the Feminist Left banning Party Shirts and other pheromonical paraphernalia in the interest of Pure Womanhood. ;)
I bet they do have an impact, but we would all be using them if they were that poweful. This article was from 2002 and I still can't find anything about this shirt except from the WWN.
If that were $100 bills, you MIGHT get my attention.
I don't care what kind of stinkum they put on/in that shirt, unless they can get it to make a beer gut look like a six pack, it ain't gonna do it ;-)
No, seriously, I followed a link another Freeper posted. :o)
I'm better than a guy with a six-pack.
*I* have a whole *keg*!
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