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Originally uploaded by tdjohnsn

I just got this shirt. We were at Sears buying Ron some new slacks and it was on sale for $13 dollars! It is supposed to look worn and old, and they achieved that look by sewing it together inside out, i.e. the patter is on the inside and shows through to the outside even though the stitching is all normal as though the this it the correct way for it to be put together.

I like the pattern. I wish it was sewn the other way around.

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[typographer.livejournal.com]

I was thinking, after your earlier post, that I couldn't possibly get through this much of the year with a shirt a day thing.

But this morning I counted the shirts currently hanging in my side of the closet. 70. I would have guessed 35-40. And today's laundry day, so none of the shirts I wore to work this week are hanging in the closet at the moment. I bet I have more than 30 t-shirts (though the last few years I've been more ruthless with t-shirts, so maybe not a lot more). Clearly, I'm more of a clothes horse than I realized, and I could have gotten at least this far into the year if I were insane enough to do a self-portrait a day, each in a different shirt.

Which is just a bit boogling.

[typographer.livejournal.com]

And I forgot, I was going to say, one of my Aloha shirts is that way -- sewn together inside out, so that that pattern is all faded. I also wish they'd just done it the other way.

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

I friend that we square dance with collects aloha shirts and has over 200 in his collection. The one he was wearing the other night looks like a normal tiki and flower patterned one-color print until you look at it and realize that intermixed with the flowers are little busses. It is an official Hawaii bus driver aloha shirt. He also has one with bulldozers on it that is worn by the road crews. He wore a western themed one last night to the dance.