T's

Dem Franchize Boyz brought the "White T"along with purposeful misspellings of easy words to the masses. Who doesn't like an over sized clean pressed white t-shirt with the space meant for shoulders reaching down to the middle of your bicep? I sure like them. As long as they're not venturing towards night gown territory, White T's are "A okay" with me. Crisp white T = Class.



The hipsters, the East Village and the Urban Outfitters of the world however, have brought the graphic t-shirt into the forefront of American fashion. If you play the role of social sociologist and engage in enough people watching, you're sure to run into a set of t-shirts that repeat over and over again. MC Escher style. These types of T-shirts usually have novelty, are quite amusing for shorts periods of time and sometimes even invoke some type of response from others. They also fit into a few taxonomic groups and are available at the aforementioned Urban Outfitters or places that are equally "trendy":

Cultural icons that are before your time type of T-shirts: These include but are not exclusive to all the stuff that appears on VH1 specials such as I Love the 90's, I Love the 80's, I Love the 70's.... I Love How VH1 Loves the specials they make on each decade. Things people used to care about, and I guess kind of care about now, eh.... but really probably don't care about. They play to nostalgia, and memories of yesteryear or for some even pre-yesteryear. These include T-shirts that have logos such as Care Bears, Reese's peanut butter cups, Pacman, Nintendo...etc:

The "Everyone loves an [insert ethnic, religious, or racial group] shirts": They usually are worn by people who are of a certain ethnic, religious or racial group and refer to people of the same ethnic, religious or racial group. For example, if an Asian kid wore an "everyone loves an Asian girl" t-shirt, it would go over with people fine. If Kobe decided to wear an "everyone loves a white girl shirt," that would be a bad look.

The shirt that uses a geographic location, usually a state or obscure city name in some type of pun shirt: For example, "Getting lucky in Kentucky." Yes, they may originally be quite amusing, but the amusingness level deteriorates after lets say...3 minutes. These are the shirts that cause eye rolling.


The this shirt has a lot of obscure and abstract diagonals, curves, lines, circles, and intricate patterns that make it look quite expensive type of shirt because it probably is inexplicably expensive shirt: It probably is also very expensive. It also brings a lot of attention to the person wearing it. It usually is one size too small. Sometimes two. Kangol hats and silver chains are also highly recommended if you wear the aforementioned shirt type. It really makes other people ask why anybody would wear a shirt with so much flash, and so much going on. The biggest offenders are probably Armani Exchange and Guess.


Then there is this shirt:


Words cannot really describe this. Some might say this is hilarious, including myself...but I'll let you decide.

That is all.

-y