personalized shirts: 'Defend Youngstown' T-Shirts Become Hot Seller

POSTED: 11:19 am EDT August 7, 2006
UPDATED: 11:48 am EDT August 7, 2006

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- A Pittsburgh native said he's having a hard time keeping up with orders for his T-shirts that say: "Defend Youngstown."

Mahoning County Courthouse employee Phil Kidd said Youngstown is a great town, and he got tired of hearing cracks whenever he would tell how he moved there from the bigger city to the southeast. So, the 27-year-old Army veteran had an artist friend design the shirts, which feature the slogan surrounding a drawing of a muscular steel worker wielding a sledgehammer.

Six months ago, Kidd started by giving away 25 personalized shirts. Then, he sold more than 750 of them -- and the orders keep coming in. He said his idea has really "caught fire."


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