Funny T-Shirts - There's One Just For You
Kathy Austin
The evolution of the t-shirt is now well known and its rise was rapid due the helping hand of the Navy which started the avalanche by the issue of a collarless, short sleeved 'T' shaped underwear for its sailors. When Hollywood stepped in, with its industry icons like Marlon Brando and James Dean sporting them, the popularity of these shirts shot up like skyscrapers and every one just had to wear them. They were considered cool! Technological advances in the dress material and in printing gave a fillip to the popularity of the t-shirt.
There is a saying that every piece of clothing says something about the wearer, but none says as much as what a funny t-shirt does. These shirts can be mildly to extremely funny, they can be totally absurd, funnily outrageous and offensive without being overtly so. The sphere of influence of these t-shirts is so wide that it can be bounded only by the limits of the designers imagination.
In the political arena, these t-shirts are used to put across a political point or ridicule one, be supportive of a candidate or be mean to another. History tells us that during his 1948 Presidential crusade, the then Governor of New Your, Thomas E. Dewey used one such t-shirt with the message "Dew-IT with Dewey" printed on it.
People in every walk of life have been the subject of ridicule, and there isn't a topic on earth that has not been scoffed at on the t-shirt in some amusing form or another at one time or another. Lawyers, doctors, politicians, drinking, fishing, Americans, Canadians, games and even human feelings; just broach a subject and some funny t-shirt on the particular subject could definitely be found somewhere with something side-splitting on it. And if one has a funny catchphrase or anything funny that they would like to make a t-shirt out of, the Internet is there to do it for you. Customization is the latest in fashion.
The myriad possible uses of explicit and implicit graphical pictures, different colors and psychedelic auras, bizarre fonts, whacky catchphrases and play on words make the funny t-shirt a versatile medium to expression. The use of these techniques could have one wracked with laughter or might leave one stupefied enough to stand and gape at what is emblazoned in the front. Not to be out done, the back of the t-shirt is also capable of riveting you down.
The myriad possible uses of explicit and implicit graphical pictures, different colors and psychedelic auras, bizarre fonts, whacky catchphrases and play on words make the funny t-shirt a versatile medium to expression. The use of these techniques could have one wracked with laughter or might leave one stupefied enough to stand and gape at what is emblazoned in the front. Not to be out done, the back of the t-shirt is also capable of riveting you down.
Contrary to what the viewers of a funny t-shirt might think, the person who is wearing the particular t-shirt may be attempting to tell the world what THEY think. He or she may be using the apparel as a form of self propaganda. Parents may even be trying to say something indirectly through the t-shirt that their infants are adorned with. With the plethora of t-shirts available, it will not be a surprise if there is a funny t-shirt custom-made just for you.
A rude or offensively funny t-shirt might just be the purpose of the person who is sporting it to give an expression of his or her anger against an individual or a concept; the more offensive the message the more his resentment. One has to be very guarded these days since a simple phrase that does not offend one may offend another. The best bet may be a t-shirt with a big empty circle drawn on it. Nothing to it.
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