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#21 ·
Packard said:
When was the last time you wore a graphic tee? Or am I the only one in the world that does not own one?
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You mean counting today? It's a shirt a friend brought back from the Olympics in Athens.

I don't have any Dead t-shirts at the moment, which is unusual for me, but I wear some kind of graphic t-shirt most weekend days, and most warm days of the year.
 
#23 ·
mixed message..

How about a graphic tee with an image of Fred Astaire upon it?

Or with some witty wuote like: "There's no shame in being poor...only in being poorly dressed?"

Perhaps Andy would want to sponsor a line of shirts for members to wear? (LOL)
 
#24 ·
I can't imagine this will be well received here, but allow me to introduce, via my first post, https://www.threadless.com.

Many of their shirts are garish and most of the designs are too large for my taste, but I have bought a couple gems there.

(Full disclosure: For sleeping, lounging around the house with the family, or weekend/evening errands, a tee-shirt -- with or without graphics -- is my favored apparel. I spend most of the rest of my life in BB and AE.)
 
#25 ·
I can only remember wearing two graphic tee shirts in my adult life. One was an American Red Cross shirt that I got after giving blood and the other was one I was given at the gate of a football game between the Indianapolis Colts and Tennessee Titans.

Having said that I have owned many such tee shirts. Just about every charity event I have participated in handed out tee shirts, but I always gave them away to women such as my daughter, ex-wife, various girlfriends, etc. I don't wear a lot of tee shirts, but when I do they are plain.

Cruiser
 
Discussion starter · #28 ·
I read an article once many years ago on Valentines Day about a survey that was taken regarding preferences in clothing.

Men were asked what attire they would most like to see their wife or girl friend wearing:

1. Swim suit
2. Gown
3. Tank top and shorts
4. Blue jeans and a white tee-shirt

Surprisingly the overwhelming preference was for #4.

They then went on to ask a similar set of questions to the women regarding their boyfriend/husband attire;

1. Swim suit
2. Tuxedo
3. Tank top and shorts
4. Blue jeans and a white tee-shirt

Not quite as surprising was that the women had, by an overwhelming margin, a preference for #4 also.

Which begs the question: Why spend $2,000.00 on a good suit when you can get a pair of blue jeans and a white tee for about $50.00?
 
#30 ·
Packard said:
Which begs the question: Why spend $2,000.00 on a good suit when you can get a pair of blue jeans and a white tee for about $50.00?
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If you dress solely to appeal to the tastes of the largest percentage of females, you are correct - a lot of people choose their wardrobe for different reasons though!
 
#31 ·
Packard said:
I read an article once many years ago on Valentines Day about a survey that was taken regarding preferences in clothing.
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For the date, in general and who were they asking? Swim suit and tank top are not suitable and unless you are going to a black-tie, the dinner suit is out.

I do not know any women who wants to go on the 14th Feb with someone in jeans and a t-shirt. I have seen scruffy people (male and female), dress smarter on the day.

There is nothing wrong with jeans and t-shirt, in fact I am wearing exactly that; however, using as a point that there nothing wrong with t-shirts. Secondly, the OP was asking about graphic t-shirts, what women would want to go out with someone (on 14th Feb or not) in an Iceberg t-shirt with Mickey Mouse on the front and Armani jeans.
 
#32 ·
I had a few friends who owned graphic t-shirt companies! When you're 22-23 it's an easy company to start.

There are many legitimate reasons to wear graphic tees- the footraces, the friends' bands or companies, the restaurant that was really cool on vacation.

About age 38-39 I decided that I no longer wanted to buy them. I have 25 year old t-shirts from bands that I really loved, so I don't plan to throw them away any time soon.
 
#33 ·
I own some graphic tee shirts.

One, a tee shirt from a YES concert that I attended many years ago. It's black and I don't think I've ever worn it.

The rest are road race tees, including 13 coveted Peachtree 10K road race tees. I typically wear these only on July 4 (the day the race is annually run).
 
#36 ·
nicksull said:
Like why go to Paul Bocuse when you can eat at MacDonalds?
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One thing I do like to point out here is that there are many totally legitimate styles and not one singular style that looks good. When people say "looks good in white shirt and jeans," think of the Rebel without a cause poster. If I was going out on a boat, doing work in the yard, doing anything outdoors that required some manual work, I could do a lot worse than jeans, new plain white t-shirt and golf jacket.

What happens, as you're aware, is that 99% of the people out there mistranslate that into "wear jeans" or "wear t-shirts" that remove any of the good style from their look. but that shouldn't mean amongst people who know better, that the $4 white t-shirt is verboten.
 
#37 ·
Technically yes, if the definition is to be any shirt with a large picture/logo on the front. I have 3-4 T-Shirts from my program from my days playing DIII college football (all of four months ago). I wear them around the house, to the gym, and perhaps on an odd errand during the weekend. If I'm going to be seen socially--and I don't really count running errands as "seen socially"--then I'll put on something more tasteful.

Also, I think we need to better operationalize our term "graphic Tee." IMHO, these two shirts are not of the same type, even though they both have large pictures on their respective front sides:

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These two shirts are not the same thing. The first one is a Star Wars T shirt. The second is a graphic T of the ubiquitous Affliction brand. I just can't fathom grouping them in the same category.
 
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#38 ·
Packard said:
Do Greatful Dead T-shirts count?
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Hear, hear. Memories, memories. :icon_smile:

I have, and wear, a few t-shirts, but I feel odd putting them on anymore. They're usually incomprehensible and very personal. Now that I wear a collared shirt 95% of the time, it just feels strange. Like wearing flip flops out in public. I guess I've just changed, and there's no two ways about it. I'm frankly just more interested in the personal enjoyment I get from a great shirt than telling some stranger what kind of beer I drink.
 
#39 ·
Just don't throw them out. My old marathon/5K/10K shirts are now two 6x7 shirt king sized quilts that I hope to pass down to grandkids. They hang in my office where I show them off to sweet young things training for their first big race. The dialog goes something like:

"Gosh, you ran the Boston Marathon...1978? Wow, that was before I was born..."
 
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