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Once upon a time rugby jerseys were made from heavy cotton Cheap West Virginia Mountaineers Jersey , with starchy collars and the minimum of colours to distinguish your team from the other. Those days are long gone, and some would say good riddance, as they slip into their pink leopard skin print tight fit top… over their base layer to keep them cosy and warm… and their shoulder pads so they don’t get hurt… oh, and don’t forget the fake tan!!
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Fashion from a rugby perspective – how many people does that cover? Rugby is getting more and more global, but even in the home nations, it is a minority sport.
Reg Clark, owner of <"http:rhinogbheritage-clothingold-school-fashion">old school fashion and <"http:rhinogbheritage-clothingallretro-rugby-C">retro rugby brand <"http:rhinogbheritage-clothing">RhinoGB Cheap South Carolina Gamecocks Jersey , said “If it will be a niche market of real rugby fans and not the population at large, so be it. We don’t want to ditch quality for quantity for the sake of profit. Rhino is a brand over 30 years in the making and we are not going to abandon our values”.
“The preppieivy league look has been overdone and is very un-rugby” says Clark. The approach he is referring to of course is the random rugby brand generator – Polo shirt + place name + some numbers + rugby = fashion. Columbus Rugby 1492 for example – with so many brands following this formula, it beggars the question – who owns the rights to rugby? Perhaps Rugby school? The town of Rugby? The RFU? The IRB? The first person to copyright “rugby”?
So now we get to the elephant in the room. Ralph Lauren famously tried to copyright rugby as part of their fashion brand RL Rugby, and has been scaring off anyone who they think might be encroaching on their rights to the use of the word “rugby” on leisurewear. They have also pursued a similar tack in relation to the use of the polo logo and infamously prevented the US Polo national governing body from using a polo player on a horse logo on their apparel!
One man who knows all about the fight to own rugby is American James Carlberg of LiquidRugby. Carlberg started printing rugby tees back in the eighties and had built a successful business that was experiencing rapid growth as rugby grew in popularity in the States. Things were going so well that a number of apparel reps had been in touch about getting into the larger department stores. His legal struggles brought this to a halt.

Thankfully Carlberg stuck it out and six years later won his case convincingly against Ralph Lauren. “I’m an entrepreneur and I believe in the American Dream. No one should be able to tell you what you can or can’t sell and who you can or can’t sell to” said James.
In true rugby spirit Cheap Penn State Nittany Lions Jersey , James has some advice for those wishing to enter this field “If you love our sport the way I do and you have a product or brand you believe in, fight for it”.


TAIYUAN, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- A movie jointly made by five directors from five BRICS countries was previewed in north China's Shanxi Province on Wednesday afternoon.


The movie, named Where Has Time Gone Cheap Oregon Ducks Jersey , will be screened nationwide in China next Thursday, said Jia Zhangke, its Chinese director. It was previewed by film critics and mass media in Taiyuan, Shanxi's capital.


The other directors are Walter Salles from Brazil Cheap Oklahoma State Cowboys Jersey , Aleksey Fedorchenko from Russia, Madhur Bhandarkar from India and Jahmil X. T. Qubeka from South Africa.


Jia, a native of Shanxi, told the press that the movie is in five parts. The Brazilian part shows the aftermath of a dam collapse. The Indian part tells the friendship between an old man and an orphan. The Russian part depicts a couple living in a valley. The one from South African director is set in the future. Jia's story is about a couple who want a second child.


According to the Chinese director Cheap Oklahoma Sooners Jersey , the five BRICS countries are all rapidly developing and the lives of people have similarities. "But different cultural backgrounds and history result in different ways of thinking," he said.


"China is now in an era of international cooperation," Jia continued. "The film is a significant trial."



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