Saturday, July 19, 2008

Shirts with sayings on them

It seems that in Croatia/Bosnia/Serbia (and possibly everywhere I've been, I can't really remember) shirts with sayings on them are really popular. Especially for the ladies. "100% organic cotton" "I love my shirt" and there are lots of others. I'd remember more but the sayings are generally spread over an area of the body that distorts flat surfaces and leaves the person who was trying to read the shirt generally trying to get a better look at the distortions. It's kinda like trying to look at one of those 3d images.

There is a specific reason I bring this up: this fad seemed to be big in north america before europe and, in my general understanding of fashion, this is backwards. Also, there seems to be more women wearing the shirts than men, and in the womens case it's almost always a tight fitting shirt with big letters that are shiny silver or something and generally no graphics. The content of the words / graphics are generally self promoting "I'm going to do X with my body" or "This t-shirt is too hot for you", etc, etc. Nothing really crude, until today. Granted, it was a 45 year old man wearing the shirt but it really threw me off. Again, young children, skip the rest of this paragraph. The shirt had 2 people on it and the saying below the people was "get a job", after reading the saying I looked more closely at the people, which was a man with another person (possibly female) on their knees at the other persons midsection. I was kinda floored, I'm not sure why but all the different parameters that went into me seeing that older gentlemen at 11 in the morning on a saturday at a grocery store. Anyway. It was this mans shirt that reminded me I hadn't posted anything about all the girls wearing shirts with sayings.

Thats all.
mark.

1 comment:

erin said...

mark! a fashion post! you just made my day.