Comments on Bunsnip: I'm too HOT for this shirt

How funny, I just bought a black and a white T-shi...

2011-01-18T00:12:47.926-08:00

How funny, I just bought a black and a white T-shirt. I love both colors (or non colors). I agree with everything you said about how difficult it is to keep white shirts clean, which I why I own so many of them. (PS: The best way to keep them white-white is to line dry them in the sun.)

What particularly bugs me is the really, really thin tissue t-shirts that are in style right now. If have to pay $12 for some plain t-shirt, I'd rather that it actually have some structure to it.

Man, this post was all over the place. I'm st...

2011-01-18T00:12:47.603-08:00

Man, this post was all over the place. I'm still trying to decide exactly what it's about.

I LIKE white shirts, and own quite a few actually. One of my very favorite shirts is a white Hard Rock t-shirt I got in Vegas. Sadly, I have worn the hell out of it and it has now been demoted to "polishing rag", but I did indeed love that shirt when it was whole.

I've never had any issues with yellowing or sweat stains of any kind. I guess maybe it's something to do with body chemistry or some such. It's never been a problem for me at all, and I can comfortably wear white shirts for years and years with no marking whatsoever. White shirts and light-colored clothing in general work extremely well for me given my ultra-pale complexion. I prefer it. I also have no difficulties keeping white things white. I just toss them in with a cup full of Purex, and there it is.

I'm not trying to sound haughty or anything. That's simply my experience. Your mileage may vary.

Also, anyone that's ever met or seen me knows I have NO fashion sense whatsoever. One of these days I'm going to enlist Heidkins to give me a makeover. Until then, t-shirts and jeans are the norm, and that's pretty much who I am. I have no right or reason to criticize anyone on how they dress.

Heidi: Since you are fashion: fabulous, I am surpr...

2011-01-18T00:12:47.214-08:00

Heidi: Since you are fashion: fabulous, I am surprised anyone would try to give you advice, but I suppose some people just can't keep to themselves. And being advised by someone wearing pointy toes and rhinestones would be infuriating, I'm sure.

Melanie: Yes, I have bought tissue thin T-shirts that literally acquire holes within the first washing. What a waste! If I'm paying good money, I want good quality!

Sov: It's true that I trail around a lot in this post (that's actually pretty true to my stream-of-consciousness style that comes when I don't try too hard to write), but I think it's all pretty straight forward. I'm talking about clothing, people who think it's a good idea to advise you on clothing, and some of the reasons why I wear things that people might feel they need to advise me on (like why I don't wear white and favor a certain color palette, and am thus more inclined to wear unseasonably dark colors, and like why you might see me in a regular Adult M or S [depending on how many cookies I've had lately] gender-neutral, aka "boy" T-shirt instead of a lame tissue-thin "girls" T-shirt). Also, I would like to dress you in sweaters, button-downs, and boots or loafers, but that's just me. I mean, as a T-shirt and jeans person myself, I really oughtn't judge.

B.R.: I admit I subscribe to certain gender assumptions in clothing -- like I really don't enjoy seeing a man wearing pink for the most part. Some can pull it off. But I realize that's unfair of me. I have seen some Ben Sherman, and it does have a sort of androgynous quality to it, which I always find appealing.

I'm with you... a T-shirt is a T-shirt. I don...

2011-01-18T00:12:46.943-08:00

I'm with you... a T-shirt is a T-shirt. I don't own a white shirt either and I totally wore black yesterday.

I'm with you... a T-shirt is a T-shirt. I don...

2009-07-10T11:51:32.767-07:00

I'm with you... a T-shirt is a T-shirt. I don't own a white shirt either and I totally wore black yesterday.

Heidi: Since you are fashion: fabulous, I am surpr...

2009-07-10T11:01:44.500-07:00

that's plural, companies. All this travel is m...

2009-07-09T23:54:27.250-07:00

that's plural, companies. All this travel is messing with my subject/verb agreement....

Roland Barthes tried to make a semiotics of fashio...

2009-07-09T23:53:40.768-07:00

Roland Barthes tried to make a semiotics of fashion so you know you're dealing with a serious topic when literary scholars enter the argument, ja? :)

Having been called a tomboy since, well, birth, I could say a thing or 20 about your premise.

As a person living in the modern world who also finds the 'text' of clothing consequential, I have to say that one of my problems with the 'text' of gender and gender inequality is that it is so 'naturally' sold to us on a daily basis all in the name of fabric/fashion choices. Men should buy this and women should buy that and on and on. We can't have people regardless of anatomic sex buying the same thing now, can we? No, that would mean a whole lot of bizarre things. That's why I like Ben Sherman clothing. The lines between the various societal genders are blurry and therein lies a better pool of choices. I find.
B.S. is but an example, I just think that clothing company would do better business is they appealed more to the hypermodern thinking person. Enjoyed this.

Man, this post was all over the place. I'm st...

2009-07-09T21:40:34.532-07:00

How funny, I just bought a black and a white T-shi...

2009-07-09T15:35:24.171-07:00

I give the stink eye to men--particularly stranger...

2009-07-09T15:20:12.457-07:00

I give the stink eye to men--particularly strangers--who give me fashion advice.

More stink eye if they are wearing anything pointy-toed, embroidered, or sparkly.

xox