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Second, seems to me there's more similarity between the two Firestone shirts, given that you could legitimately confuse them if you were just looking from afar, which doesn't seem to be the case here.
Basically, the main touchstone (as I understand it) is likelihood of consumer confusion, and there doesn't seem to be much in your example. As I said, trademark isn't my area of law, so I could be wrong about some of this, but the point is that it's a bit more complicated than you're making it out to be.