A JAPANESE clothing brand selling t-shirts with the names of random places in Scotland printed on them has become an unlikely online hit.
Fashion retailer Shoo-La-Rue has taken social media by storm after images were shared of models wearing tops with Scottish place names featuring Falkirk, North Lanarkshire, West Lothian and Clackmannanshire printed on them.
The Tokyo-based fashion brand describes the T-shirts as having a “fun” pattern and are available for around 1,489 yen (£7.20).
The tops are part of the Cutie Blonde collection and have the Scottish local authority names printed on the front with some of them having seemingly random dates as included with the design.
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One Falkirk top is accompanied by the date 1932 while a North Lanarkshire t-shirt is embroidered with flowers.
There is even a top with Clackmannanshire on it which is accompanied by the caption “Clarity Precedes Success” and the year 1974.
The designs from the Japanese brand resemble those associated with varsity style sports teams and world-famous university towns, such as Harvard, Oxford, Boston, or Cambridge which have been a hugely popular fashion trend in the UK.
The clothing also bears resemblance to Scottish uuniversities own ranges of prep-school style clothing although it is highly unlikely the local authorities featured have anything similar.
The t-shirts came to light after a viral tweet from more than five years ago resurfaced online as it asked: “See how Scottish people wear tops that say ‘New York’ and ‘LA’ do people from America wear tops saying ‘Arbroath’ or ‘East Kilbride’.”
To which another person replied: “Well there ye go. Japanese people wear tops that say Falkirk.”
Pictures of the Japanese models wearing the tops were accompanied with the Tweet and have since taken social media by storm as Scots have been asking where they can get one for themselves.
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