MoWax Merchandise

MoWax Merchandise
Year	1995?
Type	T-shirt

MoWax Merchandise
Designer	Will Bankhead and Ben Drury
Year	1996
Type	T-shirt

MoWax Merchandise
Designer	Swifty
Year	1994
Type	T-shirt
Material	100% Cotton

Mo' Wax Merchandise 1994-1997

The original Mo' Wax Merchandise range was created and sold by Swifty, and included three t-shirts and a record bag. Also available were Swifty and Straight No Chaser t-shirts. These were all advertised for sale in Straight No Chaser Magazine^[1]. The t-shirts sold for 16 pounds, and were available through mail order^[2].

In 1996 a new MoWax Merchandise Catalogue was released, featuring four new designs by Will Bankhead and Ben Drury, a new record bag design and a slipmat (not pictured). Each includes a MWM (MoWax Merchandise) catalogue number, eg. MWM001T for the first t-shirt design.^[3]

The box design also featured on the Faces Z compilation which was released in 1996, and its design is credited to Ben Drury.^[4]

Gallery

Advertisement from Straight No Chaser #20 page 52
Advertisement in 1994 issue of Straight No Chaser
DJ Shadow wearing UNKLE T-shirt
Record Bag 1994
Record Bag 1994
Record Bag in The Face January 1994
Early MoWax Tshirts in Swifty's Book
Postcard advertising T-shirt
MoWax Merch Catalogue 1996
Box Tee Front
Box Tee Back
Box Tee sleeve detail
Record Bag 1996
Review of 1996's record bag in Mix Mag April 1997

MWMT001

Another design was also available and has the catalogue number of MWMT001^[5], this design is undated and features a tag with the following text: "Screen Stars by Fruit of the Loom, Printed in USA."^[6] A white version and dark blue version appear to have been released,^[7] with an eBay listing for the dark version claiming the user received it as a promo from Mo' Wax in the 1990's and that it was never on sale to the public.^[8]

Two versions of the white t-shirt have appeared online with the same designs but slightly different tags. Both tags mention Screen Stars as the creator.^[9]^[10] For clearer versions of the tags as featured on other t-shirts, see Minor Thread on Flickr.^[11]^[12]

Fruit of the Loom was a USA based T-shirt company which operated during the 1980's and 1990's.^[13]

MoWax T-shirt MWMT001
MoWax T-shirt MWMT001
Back of MWMT001
Front Design of MWMT001
Back Design of MWMT001
Alt Tag of MWMT001
Dark MWMT001 Tee Front
Dark MWMT001 Tee Back
Front Detail Dark MWMT001 Tee

Mo' Wax T-shirts 1998+

MoWax Merchandise

Designer	Ben Drury
Year	1998
Type	T-shirt

In 1998 Mo' Wax signed a new partnership with XL Records/Beggars Group, and new merchandise was produced. T-shirts here don't have a specific date, and while they are presumed to have been produced between 1998-2003 this hasn't been confirmed. Some of these t-shirts were released in bags with a MWT logo. Some of the t-shirts were restocked in 2004 via the Mo' Wax Mailorder website, including "MWT 001 - Mo'Wax Clockwork Orange", "MWT 002 - Mo'Wax Multi-Color", "MWT 003 - Mo'Wax Japanese", and "MWT 004 - Mo'Wax Block", with each available for £13 online and each order also came with a Mo' Wax bag. Unfortunately some of the images are no longer available, and it's unclear if the "wire logo" t-shirt is MWT 002, or another design, while there don't appear to be any images of MWT 003.