Which T-Shirt Brand Currently Is the Ultimate "D-Bag" Shirt?

About every five years or so a new trendy hip clothing line brand name comes and invades Hollywood, California and just like that the whole United States copies and wears what all of the trendy hip douche bags of Hollywood are currently wearing.

Right around the year 2004 a new clothing line was spreading like the plague through out America because again Hollywood's elite first started aggressively wearing the current in thing at the time a brand known as Von Dutch. Von Dutch was one of the main reasons why trucker hats came back in style.

In 2003 everyone and their mama was wearing Von Dutch from Jay-Z to Justin Timberlake. I myself am guilty of purchasing an over-priced $60 Von Dutch trucker hat that was designed to look more like an old school choo-choo train conductor's hat.

Just as fast as Von Dutch spread like wild fire it also put its own fires out by becoming too commercial and too easily obtained from initially only being only sold at the trendiest boutique shops in Hollywood to now being sold at your local suburban Costco.

To simplify things there's a "NEW VON DUTCH" sweeping America and it goes by the name of Ed Hardy. Ed Hardy, like Von Dutch, features very vintage images that appear to be more flamboyant and bling bling based on the concept and original ink tatoo designs of tatoo artist Ed Hardy.

Now just to make things clear, I am a big fan of fashion and I have my moments of being trendy and hip, but I learned my mistake with jumping on the Von Dutch train. These over-priced trendy clothing lines that pop up every four years or so only last so long until suburban soccer moms wear them and then the original rockstars who first wore them feel its time to find the next big trendy thing.

What makes matters worse is that you have guys who try so hard to be hip, trendy, cool and even tough by throwing on Ed Hardy shirts as if it enhances a false sense of cool, swagger, or toughness.

This same false self confidence of throwing on a particular name brand can definitely be extended to other similiar concept brands such as Tapout or Affliction. Generally speaking you will come across a guy who wears a Tapout or Affliction shirt who is so desperate to let the general public know that he is tough and is so legit and real that it only has the reverse effect.

Now I am not talking about every single person who throws on an Ed Hardy, Tapout, or Affliction shirt, for there are the "real deals" out there who are legit and real as can be, but come on the vast majority is just trying way too hard to pretend to be down with MMA or prove that they have the skills, knowledge and fight ability as if their life depended on it.

Look if you have a contract or endorsement that states you must wear Ed Hardy, Tapout, Affliction etc., whenever you do public appearances then you are the man period. If I had a six figure contract to wear Speedos everywhere I go then you best believe I'd be making Speedos cool again. (I'm not sure if Speedos were ever cool actually?)

But lets keep it real the majority of the greater public tends to view these guys who wear these "trying too hard trendy clothing name brands" as total douche bags.

Look, I did some fitness modeling in the past with certain name brands which I will not mention, but the point is I would never wear these name brands unless they were given to me for free(which they were) and again I had a signed contract or endorsement which I currently do not.

Again I'm a big fan of fashion. I have my expensive throwback jerseys of my favorite legendary athletes, and then I have my Kanye West Gucci and Louis Vuitton gear when the time is right of course. I wear what I want to wear cause I want to rock it, not cause 50 other steroid abused guys with no game are wearing the same thing in the clubs.  

Moral of the story is be happy and that is by being yourself. Don't try too hard to be something that you clearly are not and whatever you do don't be a douche bag.