Word: shirtful
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...welcome customers, in a serious way. I was wearing a corduroy jacket over a Henley tee, boat shoes, and Gap jeans with one leg rolled up to avoid getting it caught in my touring bicycle’s gears. I was there to purchase an extra-long t-shirt and jeans with legs so big I could have ridden my bicycle through just one of them. Even though we kept our actual motivations for purchasing said clothing to ourselves, we obviously weren’t out to buy clothes for everyday use, and everyone in the store knew...
...found that college students’ opinions and degree of political involvement are generally similar to those of their parents, and that students are very much a swing constituency. The survey identified several new forms of political participation among college students, including blogging and wearing political slogans on T-shirts and wristbands. “The T-shirt is the new yard sign,” Monahan said. “The good news is that students are political in both traditional and innovative ways. The bad news is that campaigns may not be realizing this.” Panelists...
Here’s an existential crisis that Sartre should have been writing about: If my T-shirts are “me,” and my T-shirts are owned by everyone, then does that mean I am like everyone, and thus that I am nothing as an individual? In recent weeks, fashionistas the world over have had to contend with this identity-shattering dilemma.During the semi-controversy surrounding the Women’s & Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania’s recent “girl-cott” of certain Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirts, the sentiment...
...hint for pre-med students: if you happen to come across a young woman wearing a tight-fitting t-shirt with “Anatomy Tutor” suggestively emblazoned across the chest, don’t expect her to provide you with study tips for the upcoming midterm. Such garments are instead products of Abercrombie & Fitch’s “Attitude Tees” campaign. The company has designed other t-shirts with similarly daring slogans, like “Do I Make You Look...
...dispatched to the Spangler Building at 1 Soldiers Field Park to take note of a past domestic disturbance. The victim asked for and received a restraining order. 1:29 p.m.—An officer spotted someone in the process of clothing the John Harvard Statue with a T-shirt. The prankster was spoken to, asked to leave, and was ultimately unsuccessful in his or her attempt. 1:40 p.m.—An officer took note of the theft of a vial filled with a steroid-type drug. The estimated value of the stolen item could not be gauged...