From Monday through Thursday this week, Shirt.Woot will be selling some of our favorite non-winning designs from the first few weeks of our Derby. There may be no second acts in American lives, but it turns out there are second acts in American t-shirt design competitions.

It's combustible! It's stylized! It's swooping down from your shoulder on red-hot wings of flame! If you're looking for a t-shirt with a punchline, or with some pop-culture reference that will serve as a billboard for your sociological identity, come back some other time. This striking, gorgeous design's only raison d'etre is its striking gorgeousness. And that's plenty.

This shirt was designed by: Tony Persons, the multitaskin' Nebraskan, showing us another facet of the same talent that brought you Stereo From Above last week.

Wear this shirt to: entice the guys and/or dolls with your fiery yet refined taste.

Don't wear this shirt to: hang out with J'onn J'onzz, Manhunter from Mars.

This shirt tells the world: "I don't choose t-shirts based on what they tell the world."

We call this color: World-Famous Five-Alarm Hot 'n' Spicy Cranberry.

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