tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post5119061725619918678..comments2024-03-19T10:41:35.976-05:00Comments on Bronze Age Babies: I Like T-Shirts And I Cannot LieDoughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248324005584963229noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-71279013545168189312015-07-14T12:43:54.934-05:002015-07-14T12:43:54.934-05:00Never been much of an illustrated t-shirt guy. I h...Never been much of an illustrated t-shirt guy. I had some Star Wars and Spider-Man ones as a kid, but in adulthood I am a little more buttoned up.<br /><br />I do have a "WWPCD?" t-shirt - which is the most obscure X-Men related t-shirt there is. WWPCD = "What Would Peter Corbeau Do?"<br /><br />I also have a Charlotte's Web t-shirt with the classic cover illustration that my wife got me for X-Mas b/c it was one of my favorite books as a kid and I was even in a band in the 90s called "Zuckerman's Famous Pig"<br /><br />I have a "STOP WARS" t-shirt in the style of the STAR WARS logo - to show people my political position (proceeds went to fund anti-war movements during the Bush II years)<br /><br />And I have a funny t-shirt a friend made that depicts two wanna-be hipster kids of the early 60s (one in black beret) that reads "Indie Comics are Way Cooler"<br /><br />I am much more into concert/band tees - not that I have many.Dr. Oyolahttp://themiddlespaces.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-84635313961335976422015-07-12T21:45:29.429-05:002015-07-12T21:45:29.429-05:00LOVE great, hip teeshirts.., but soooo agreed with...LOVE great, hip teeshirts.., but soooo agreed with the poly-cotton cheap crap at Target and other outlets. <br /><br />Beautiful shirt designs, especially the classic Marvel, POTA, SW, Trek, Batman items, but once I see that blend, I never waste the money.<br /><br />It's either 100% Cotton or forget it. Black shirts are just fine. I'm actually looking for a cool hip one to wear under my Eddie Bauer travel suitcoat for Seattle. You HAVE to have something hip and cool, geekwise, like perhaps a guitar or calculus calculations. <br /><br />Great column, Karen.david_bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00218727673816200051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-71373930572088556892015-07-12T21:45:25.607-05:002015-07-12T21:45:25.607-05:00LOVE great, hip teeshirts.., but soooo agreed with...LOVE great, hip teeshirts.., but soooo agreed with the poly-cotton cheap crap at Target and other outlets. <br /><br />Beautiful shirt designs, especially the classic Marvel, POTA, SW, Trek, Batman items, but once I see that blend, I never waste the money.<br /><br />It's either 100% Cotton or forget it. Black shirts are just fine. I'm actually looking for a cool hip one to wear under my Eddie Bauer travel suitcoat for Seattle. You HAVE to have something hip and cool, geekwise, like perhaps a guitar or calculus calculations. <br /><br />Great column, Karen.david_bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00218727673816200051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-26742192341706518582015-07-12T13:34:14.557-05:002015-07-12T13:34:14.557-05:00I have a t-shirt sickness. I own far beyond what a...I have a t-shirt sickness. I own far beyond what anyone would consider a reasonable amount. I tend to go for simple designs. Nothing turns me off more than an overly elaborate Ed Hardy sort of t-shirt. I have mostly music shirts bought at concerts, my favorite are by both Rush and the Allman Brothers Band. I don't go in for comics or movie shirts much although I do have a fantastic Iron Man shirt that features art by John Romita Jr. and Bob Layton. I'd give my eye teeth for that Dave Cockrum X-Men shirt you have, Karen. That's a beauty. -JJJJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18053716133555080531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-23891355144651978262015-07-11T20:35:32.249-05:002015-07-11T20:35:32.249-05:00Strangely, I can make any t-shirt geeky. It's...Strangely, I can make any t-shirt geeky. It's a gift. More a curse, a bane really, an ever present thorn in my side.........<br /><br /><br />I remember in '82 going to see The Stones on their Farewell Tour of America.....I think it was their first one?<br /><br />(Well she picked me up in the morning<br />And she paid all my tickets<br />Yeah she screamed in the car<br />And threw me out in the thicket<br />Well I never would've dreamed<br />That her heart was so wicked<br />Oh but I keep coming back<br />Cause it's so hard to kick it)The Prowlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16047156663144096329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-61937743853442329082015-07-11T14:51:00.993-05:002015-07-11T14:51:00.993-05:00Strangely, I don't have a lot of geeky shirts....Strangely, I don't have a lot of geeky shirts. When I was a kid I had a lot of "funny" shirts (like "Blame It On Me Everyone Else Does" and the ubiquitous "I'm With Stupid"). <br /><br />Mike WilsonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-71392144200912748222015-07-11T12:12:49.021-05:002015-07-11T12:12:49.021-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.ColinBrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04995208182158761600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-10066199026106671542015-07-11T11:49:03.135-05:002015-07-11T11:49:03.135-05:00Wonderful post, Karen. And I love every single one...Wonderful post, Karen. And I love every single one of those photographs, and especially the one with the awesome Arena t-shirt (I still want that one!) at the very scene of that epic battle.<br />What you said about comfort gets to the heart of it for me: by far the highest percentage of clothing items I own are t-shirts, because they are simply the most comfortable thing to wear, bare none. However, about half of my t-shirts now are plain, solid-color white, black, gray, etc. with nothing on them. Among my favorites now are a few novelty Ts my nephew bought for me a few years ago: one that has a stylized chicken head and CTRL ALT CHICKEN on it, and another with a picture of a squirrel holding a stick and a caption reading "Protect Your Nuts" (juvenile, yes, but it often elicits smiles and comments even here in Croatia).<br /><br />Back in elementary school, I had several T-shirts with super-heroes on them, and my Spider-man and Thing Ts were my very favorites. I also had a Luke Skywalker shirt when I was a big Star Wars fan. When I was in high school and college, I was kind of like Colin, in that most of my T-shirts had bands on them - my favorites were a black one that had the image from the Meet the Beatles album cover, and a Jimi Hendrix shirt. Also, after I went to my first Dead concert, I wore tie-dye t-shirts quite often...Edo Bosnarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-24671435274209800062015-07-11T09:43:05.775-05:002015-07-11T09:43:05.775-05:00Great topic. Like Karen I have have measured my li...Great topic. Like Karen I have have measured my life in t-shirts...at least until recent years.<br /><br />My comic shirts have included:<br /><br />1987 - x2 different Watchmen designs, favourite being the nuclear blast/x-ray skeletons shirt<br /><br />1988 - Swamp Thing <br /><br />1995(ish) - Japanese Joker design<br /><br />1997(ish) - Incredible Hulk<br /><br />Punky T-Shirts<br /><br />1986 - No More Censorship Dead Kennedys T-shirt (picked up as a freebie from the Alternative Tentacles London office)<br /><br />1987 - Butthole Surfers 'Another Man's Sac' T-shirt<br /><br />1988 - Sink (UK hardcore) band T-shirt<br /><br />1988 - Slayer 'Reign In Hell' tour T-shirt <br /><br />1988 - Corrosion of Conformity hoodie. OK, not a T-shirt...<br /><br />1988 - The Stupids (more UK hardcore) baseball cap. OK, not a T-shirt either but I loved that cap...<br /><br />1989 - Jailcell Recipes (yet more UK hardcore) band T-shirt <br /><br />1994 - Girls Against Boys T-shirt <br /><br />Since my 40th birthday I've generally applied the rule that as men get older they look better when they dress smarter. But you know, around the house I still wear the Dead Kennedy's shirt even though almost all the print has gone and it's utterly mis-shapen. It's part of who I am.<br /><br />I think the other factor is that as geeky merchandise has gone mainstream I'm less interested in it. I used to love the idea that t-shirts communicated our secret interests to the select few. Elitist perhaps, but it used to be a very pleasing thing to strike up a conversation with a random stranger holding interests as underground as yours.ColinBrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04995208182158761600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-5411092818626245192015-07-11T08:43:40.186-05:002015-07-11T08:43:40.186-05:00Oh! And one of my initial thoughts--:
Karen, I o...Oh! And one of my initial thoughts--:<br /><br />Karen, I of course now covet that Hulk #152 shirt beyond any rational degree.<br />"How did she get that??"<br />"That wasn't even commercially available when she was that age!"<br /><br />Trimpe/Severin cover, too.<br /><br />Man, you were the LUCKIEST girl ever!<br /><br />HBHumanbellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-2828953887622093492015-07-11T08:40:02.038-05:002015-07-11T08:40:02.038-05:00Truly a FIRST-RATE post, Karen-- great subject to ...Truly a FIRST-RATE post, Karen-- great subject to idly and enjoyably muse away upon-!<br /><br />Some random thoughts:<br /><br />90% of the time, wearing a t-shirt (or, depending on the season, a t-shirt over a thermal long-sleeve undershirt) is a given as part of my work-day attire (building scenery & such). And the majority of those are super-hero related. But those shirts are almost exclusively ones that have lived out their "nice" life, and have been moved from the "presentable in public with the family" drawer to the "okay if splattered with paint or catches fire drawer". And there is just a touch of melancholy when I have to face facts on a beloved item and move it from the former to the latter.<br /><br />Although they last longer and provide for MUCH cooler image effects, I simply cannot stand the polyester or cotton/poly blend t-shirts that tend to make up most of the cheap-but-cool offerings of Target, Kohl's, Five-and-Below and such. I often receive them as small (and believe me, thoughtful and much-appreciated) gifts, but boy--- I can only take that clammy, scratchy feel of poly against my skin for about an hour before I have to rip it off my back. This, of course, can introduce a bit of an awkward atmosphere into the middle of a staff meeting, say. . . ("So if we shift the program a week later, we'll be able to-- HB, what are you--? Oh. . .my. . . god. . . ")<br /><br />There have indeed been a number of free-speech cases in schools in recent years about students wearing t-shirts that the school administration deemed inappropriate/unacceptable, which led to some manner of disciplinary action against the student(s). Non-gang-related stuff-- and usually only lightly political if at all-- like supporting gay rights, or abstinence, or in some cases school-specific issues. I think it never fails to make a heavy-handed administration look utterly foolish. <br /><br />I've mentioned it before, but it is GREAT to pick up HBGirl at her high school and to see SO MANY kids wearing some sort of superhero t-shirt! And possibly more girls than boys,to be honest. I think that a) BIG BANG THEORY has done an awful lot toward mainstreaming that nerd-chic, and b) bright colors and simple-but-interesting chest icons are unfailingly eye-catching. And they make the shirt itself a terrific accessory underneath a wide array of outfits.<br /><br />Black t-shirts are ubiquitous, but Sweet Baby Zeus, how can ANYONE stand to wear one on a hot, sunny, humid day?? Try mowin' the yard in August in an XXL heavy cotton black Hulk tee-!<br /><br />HB (for whom lack of focus never means lack of commentary--)<br /><br />Humanbellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-75462858503629085572015-07-11T08:24:53.051-05:002015-07-11T08:24:53.051-05:00I really like the Creature one. On Edmiston's... I really like the Creature one. On Edmiston's site, there is a great picture of the Creature in a bubble bath. <br /><br />Your Hulk shirt reminded me how in the 70s we got iron on decals for t shirts in our Sunday newspaper. We had of course the Cubs, and Sox, and Snoopy...but then one day I got the Hulk in a packet of loose leaf paper. Wore that shirt constantly. <br /><br />My young son had a Sonic the Hedgehog shirt that he wore every day possible. We washed it until it was nearly see through. Martinex1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-75010353571004316182015-07-11T07:40:30.315-05:002015-07-11T07:40:30.315-05:00Some great shirts there, Karen! That Famous Monste...Some great shirts there, Karen! That Famous Monsters tee is a beauty...<br /><br />Tee-shirts really have exploded into popularity in recent decades. They depict just about anything and everything; advertisements, political commentary, pop culture, and phrases that can't be repeated in polite company! And obviously the wearer of the shirt gets attention; we see those occasional stories in the news about some unfortunate kid being sent home from school due to the tee shirt they are sporting. Sometimes these shirts almost become an exercise in first amendment rights!<br /><br />Personally speaking, my tees are pretty uncontroversial. My favorite is one from Disney World Orlando: it depicts the skeleton of a Stegosaurus, the kicker here is that the skeleton is done with stitching rather than print, so the bones are three-dimensional. That shirt has held up for 15 years now; a long way from the 120 or so million years for the Steggy but it's a good start...<br /><br />One other favorite is a tee depicting Mr. Incredible that family gave me for Father's day some years ago. Aside from the personal meaning, the shirt highlights my favorite Pixar film (and one of my all-time favorite films, period)!Redartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221459636234713619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-527399415986048872015-07-11T07:39:37.454-05:002015-07-11T07:39:37.454-05:00Yeah Karen nothing represents geek culture quite l...Yeah Karen nothing represents geek culture quite like a good t-shirt. It's the unofficial uniform of fanboys and fangirls the world over, whether it's Star Wars, Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, Marvel, DC or any other fanbase you can think of.<br /><br />I have a lot of tees, but none which portray any of my favourite things. My personal style has always been more functional than form. I'm one of those guys who looks square (normal?) on the outside, but behind that exterior beats the heart of a devoted fanboy!<br /><br /> <br />- Mike 'down with turtlenecks' from Trinidad & Tobago. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com