It’s 10 p.m. on a Saturday night. What are you doing?
Believe it or not, your devoted bloggers don’t spend their entire lives hooked to fashion sources, deciding whether to report new items as trends or faux pas.
A weekend or so ago, I took the college route and played dress-up for a night on the town. No, no, I didn’t wear my Sunday’s best—I wore a t-shirt. I went to a message t-shirt celebration for a friend’s birthday.
I think it’s fabulous that when you come to college, suddenly pulling out a trunk of dress-up clothes seems normal. From Halloween to just your everyday celebration of high school clichés, dressing up is the thing to do.
It’s easy to find costumes for the night at the thrift stores Thrift Chic mentions, but to get those perfect message tees, you need only travel online.
Many of us have heard of CafePress where you can design your own t-shirts. There are so many Web sites that sell message tees and even blogs that discuss the essence of the perfect message tee.
However, for this special occasion, one of my top picks was Threadless. I bought the Ctrl+Z shirt from there, but in the end, I wore this from Alloy for $19.50. It’s a fashion statement if I’ve ever made one.
For new t-shirts designed daily, visit DesignbyHumans. I love this take on bear hugs. Kinda scary, but don’t you want to wrap yourself in the 100 percent cotton?
If you want more leeway for your message, ShirtCity lets you choose from a variety of designs on different colors and clothing items. One of my favorites rivals a bumper sticker from Facebook that I’ve seen:
At Snorg Tees they have a lot of precious sayings including this one. The site as a whole plays to less male humor and more towards the fashionable female. Friends swear by it.
All of these options are around $20. Just don’t become a fiend for them, a few in the closet = enough. Better yet, save them for the next theme party and let your clothes do the talking figuratively, not literally.
Club sandwiches, not seals.
Lim.mie
It has been to long since i had a chance to read the blog, but i must say that i LOVE the message t-shirts. I am so happy you did a piece on them.
i looove those shirts! i’m so excited to look through those websites.
One or two well picked out message tees is OK, especially if they are advocating for something that you are passionate about. BUT, too many message tees is a poor way of constructing your identity. Not funny? Why not wear a pathetically mediocre joke on your shirt? Not trendy enough? Why not wear a shirt that Jessica Simpson dons. OR just pick a shirt that SAYS “trendy” in some form… God knows half of them do.
Thanks for the websites. I enjoy a good message t-shirt here and there. I’ll have to check some out.