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Printed Tees
"Nowadays, all you have to do is walk into a store and buy a t-shirt and you can pretend like you spent your summer going cool places."
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By Alex D’Agostino
Printed tees are the newest fad sweeping America. A long time ago if you visited a really cool place, you got to come back with a T-shirt advertising where you vacationed.
Last week I saw a kid wearing a shirt that had “Bob’s Surf Shop” written across his chests. It sounded like this kid had spent his summer at some out of the way beach town, sitting around all day with the locals and knocking back cold ones. When I asked the kid wearing the shirt about the place he visited and he said, “Naw, I’ve never been there, I just bought this at Abercrombie.”
Nowadays, all you have to do is walk into a store and buy a t-shirt and you can pretend like you spent your summer going cool places instead of sitting on your butt watching TV. When I wear some great shirt from some place I went, everyone just thinks it’s an Abercrombie shirt. In fact, the Abercrombie shirts are getting so widespread that people who have real shirts don’t wear them anymore.
It makes me wonder why people would wear these shirts. Do they actually want people to think that they’ve been to these places? And if not, why would you wear a shirt with a place on it that you’ve never been to?
If you’ve never been to Bob’s Surf Shop, why wear a t-shirt that says you have? I don’t know why people wear these shirts, but I do know that I can’t wear my authentic shirts from my sweet, and I mean totally sweet, vacations.
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