Still I have mixed feelings about t-shirts with anything written across them. There is a very thin line between the crass, the geeky and the downright stupid. Most cross this line in my estimation, and I even though I now avoid them in general there are still a couple in my closet. One states that Pirates and Ninjas Agree: Cowboys Suck.
What prompted this rumination was spotting a character at work wearing a white t-shirt with black script claiming that : This is my clone. Mmm, clever. Maybe. He was an IT guy, so suitably geeky, and maybe a tad too clever. That’s the thing about message t-shirts, they may not get you pondering about the meaning of life, but they’ll likely divert you a moment or two while you figure out if you approve or not.
In a way message t-shirts are much like Facebook status updates: you can tell a lot about a person by the proclamation across their chest. Is it smart? Is it political? Is it sexy or cute; glib or solemn? Is it a rant to the world in general, or a private existential inquiry? Is it cryptic or straight to the point?
There’s a marketing idea there somewhere which I give freely to the world: a t-shirt you can write your messages on as they occur to you and erase for the next update. T-shirt 2.0.
