The spectacular rise of t-shirt is now well acknowledged and this rapid growth was due the Navy which started the landslide by the issue of a ‘T’ shaped, short sleeved undergarment without collars for the use of its sailors. Subsequently when the icons of the film industry, icons like Marlon Brando and James Dean showed up on the silver screen clad in these shirts, the attractiveness of these shirts skyrocketed and just about every one wanted to be seen in them. In today’s slang, they were considered to be cool! Its popularity soared in leaps and bounds aided by the progress in the quality of the fabric used in their manufacture and in the advances in the printing techniques involved.
Funny t-shirts can poke fun at just about anything and anybody. They can be nonsensical, border on the ridiculous and even funnily offend.
On an election year, these shirts can be used as a medium for getting a political message across, poke fun at the candidates or their political ideology. It can be used as supportive medium or as an unkind one. For a fact, New York’s Governor Thomas E. Dewey’s used one during his 1948 presidential campaign with the message “Dew-IT with Dewey” blazoned across the front. The realm in which these apparels can be used is limited only by the imagination of the designer. Jokes, one liners, whacky pictures and sayings, quotes can all be printed on these funny shirts.
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.
It is not just the front of the t-shirt, the back can also be expressive. The use of graphical images, weird fonts and play on words further enhances their popularity. The range of colors and the psychedelic images that they come in are to be seen to be believed. The beauty of it is that the use of these shirts is not restricted to just teenagers; infants to senior citizens use them.
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.
There is a fair possibility that the wearer of the t-shirt might also be sending out a warning signal in a subtle, roundabout funny way. A teenager may be indirectly venting his anger by sporting an offensive and funny t-shirt. But one also has to be careful when wearing such a shirt. In these days when words and phrases can have double meanings, simple innocuous words may mean something totally different to some other person.
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.
About the Author:
Kathy Austin is a writer for an online gallery available online at Red Bubble. Red Bubble sells high-quality funny t-shirts, framed prints, mounted prints and more. Sign up free, visit Red Bubble http://www.redbubble.com.
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