the sneetches
i am sitting in panera in a VERY loud t-shirt.
anyone with a taste for the absurd would appreciate this shirt. like all good indie shirts, it starts innocently enough: baby blue, a petite cut, long enough to tuck in. it begins getting weird, though, when you pay too much attention to the pattern: the shirt is razored with horizontal lines of alternating black, red, blue and white death's heads. upon closer inspection, one realizes that all of the death's heads have heart-shaped eye holes; moreover, every third is endcapped by a silver metallic star, or an american-flag print heart. upon even further inspection, the viewer realizes that each row is not only staggered but enlarged, so that all the images are magnified as they descend towards the hem. the combination of magnification and busy print produces a very stars-upon-thars effect, especially where the tshirt fits at the stomach. i bought it for the net visual appeal, one i would loosely describe as "postmodern image vomit." red white and blue, heartflags, sparkly stuff, and bubbly gigantic skulls and crossbones! BAM! welcome to my SHIRT!
only today, however, did i realize that it was made in vietnam.
hah.
anyone with a taste for the absurd would appreciate this shirt. like all good indie shirts, it starts innocently enough: baby blue, a petite cut, long enough to tuck in. it begins getting weird, though, when you pay too much attention to the pattern: the shirt is razored with horizontal lines of alternating black, red, blue and white death's heads. upon closer inspection, one realizes that all of the death's heads have heart-shaped eye holes; moreover, every third is endcapped by a silver metallic star, or an american-flag print heart. upon even further inspection, the viewer realizes that each row is not only staggered but enlarged, so that all the images are magnified as they descend towards the hem. the combination of magnification and busy print produces a very stars-upon-thars effect, especially where the tshirt fits at the stomach. i bought it for the net visual appeal, one i would loosely describe as "postmodern image vomit." red white and blue, heartflags, sparkly stuff, and bubbly gigantic skulls and crossbones! BAM! welcome to my SHIRT!
only today, however, did i realize that it was made in vietnam.
hah.