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FALL THREADS: TUXIZ TEES FOR YOUR NEXT EVENT

FashionSeattleitesBy Taylor Moore on September 23, 2011

From baseball to fashion, this local brand has all the bases covered.

When it comes to favorite clothing items, nothing beats that perfect t-shirt. You know, the lived-in, soft as can be, comfortable, classic and quirky tee that you just couldn’t live without. Everyone has one — and if you’re a fan of Tuxiz, you probably have quite a few.

Tuxiz was started by three friends and fellow Seattleites who wanted to create clothes to wear out, whatever the next event might be — essentially, shirts that could easily make the transition from day to night and vice versa.

“Our tag line is ‘get fitted for the next event,’ so it is a play on tuxes,” explained co-founder Ben Johnson. “We try to design shirts you can wear to a sports game but also out to a nice dinner.”

Johnson has played professional baseball with the Los Angeles Angels and Milwaukee Brewers for the last seven years. Upon returning home to Seattle, he re-enrolled at the University of Washington and began to consider a foray into the fashion industry

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Tuxiz Rally 2 Sun Valley

Three supercars, 1,312 miles, 1,745 combined horsepower, 3 speeding tickets & countless Red Bulls.

The cars:

Ferrari 458 -

562 horsepower, 0-60 in 3 seconds flat. Top speed of 202 mph.

Porsche GT2RS -

The most powerful street legal model they have ever built. Limited to 500 unites worldwide. 620 horsepower, 0-60 in 3.4 seconds. Top speed of 205 mph.

Mercedes SLS amg -

563 horsepower, 0-60 in 3.7 seconds. Top speed of 197 mph.

Nike Mag | Back to the Future shoes

The future arrives in the present with a charity auction of 1500 pairs of long-coveted sneakers

Twenty-two years ago a film about time travel gave us a glimpse of the now not-too-distant future. The 1989 Back to the Future sequel looked forward to 2015, capturing the imaginations of kids like us who dreamed of one day riding their own hover board in self-lacing sneakers like Marty McFly. Those sneakers, a concept created by Nike's own design head Tinker Hatfield alongside the film's production team, went on to provided fodder for millions of clicks worth of Internet speculation, a petition and even DIY mock-ups. Today, this past vision of the future becomes a reality as Nike launches the Mag. Continuing to push the boundaries of limited editions, auctions and charity, 1500 pairs of the shoes will be available by auction only with the potential to raise $100 million for The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research through a matching donation by Google's Sergey Brin.

Nearly identical to the ones Fox work in the film, the shoes even include the LED panel in the sole and electroluminescent logo in the strap. Today's version has a small internal battery hidden in each featherweight shoe. The glowing features last up to five hours per charge and the plug port neatly tucks away under the cuff.

Unfortunately, despite Nike filing the Automatic Lacing System patent back in 2009, the power laces detail from the film shoes didn't make it to the production model. Given that feature shows a poetic respect for the needs of people suffering from the limited muscle control Parkinson's Disease inflicts, Hatfield simply commented, "It's not 2015 yet," alluding to a future refresh of the Mag.

Back to the Future fans, sneaker-heads and philanthropists are invited to bid on the Mags in a series of one-day auctions that starts tonight at 11:30pm EST at nikemag.ebay.com and will run until 18 September 2011. To box out the typical reselling bonanza and ensure maximum dollars are contributed to to the cause, no pairs of shoes will be shipped until all 1500 pairs are sold. All proceeds will go to The Michael J. Fox Foundation and will be matched by Sergey Brin.