CLEVELAND (AP) - Team Bud owner JONATHAN BARTH is a popular party animal these days, thanks to an incredible new shirt that makes him seem as sexy as Hollywood movie stars! It's called the Party Shirt, and it turns social misfits into irresistible hunks. Early tests show the chemically treated shirt drives women wild whenever they come near any man who's wearing it.

"I used to get tossed out of line any time I tried to get into a hot nightclub," stated Barth (pictured right), a 30-year-old from Cleveland. "Girls would laugh at my fat stomach and my head. Then I found this incredible shirt, and it's like Saturday Night Fever every night."

The Party Shirt is the creation of designer Amanda Lowson, who's been testing it in fun-loving towns like Los Angeles, New York and Miami and Cleveland. Lowson combined her fashion sense with a degree in chemistry to produce a social lifesaver. Lowson says the silk-rayon fabric is treated with male sex pheromones, which are chemicals naturally produced by the human body. Pheromones have been scientifically proven to reel in the opposite sex by causing an almost magnetic attraction through the sense of smell.

"We tested the fabric with TEAM BUD owner BARTH who is quite homely of a man and a group of attractive women," Lowson says. "The women barely glanced at fat ass Barth when he was wearing ordinary clothing. But when we had him put on the Party Shirt - well, the women latched on to him so fast you'd think he had just won the lottery.

"Our focus groups had extremely positive reactions to the classic Hawaiian shirt, which caused them to view the wearer as fun and hip," she added.

"No one ever saw me that way before," says Barth. "Then I wore the Party Shirt to a cocktail party, and the next thing I knew I was dancing with two really hot women."

Scientists are skeptical about the Party Shirt.

"Pheromones are not some kind of magic potion that wipes out all reason in a woman," says a spokesman for the Human Pheromone Project in Denver. "Once she sniffs you, you'd better be able to keep her interest."

Lowson agrees completely.

"The pheromones may just be a confidence booster that helps BARTH get over his self-consciousness," she says. "Perhaps this shirt just gives him the courage to show the truly magnetic personality he had inside him all the time."