Sweet Pea Sours

"Sweet Pea" is a fun line of clothing that can be found at fashion-favorite Nordies. The Sweet Pea Limited line features designs by Stacy Frati and is a big hit with juniors of all sizes.

But Sweet Pea Limited is not such a big hit with 52 small designers who find themselves on the wrong end of a trademark infringement lawsuit.

Sounds serious, eh? Are these devilish designers creating hot diva clothes and trading on the Sweet Pea name? From what I've seen -- and judging purely on fashion, not legalities -- I'll say, "hardly."

The designs I saw (by people involved in the suit) are mostly on t-shirts and cutie-pie baby clothes and feature the phrase "sweet pea" accompanied by original drawings of the actual veggie.

You know, darling wear for the snuggly-uggum set.

Can you really sue someone for using their own artwork of a common vegetable? This is the USA -- Of COURSE you can.

Now pardon me, I have to go warn Olive Oyl that danger is afoot.

Resources:

• Sour Peas