| Vintage
T shirts! Those three words summon up images of great retro designs
and slogans from vinatge T shirt shops all over the world. When
applied to t shirts vintage is different from wine. It is not so
much the year that a T shirt was made, but the design, the overall
feel and enjoyment that can be extracted form the tee. After all,
vintage to one person might be just the other week to someone else.
Vintage T shirts often conform to a stereotypical view of the world,
whereby older becomes more expensive in a similar way to antiques
and collectibles. While T shirts are becoming collectors items and
come people have huge collections that they never even wear, the
vintage T shirt has other facets that are more in keeping with the
spirit of the T shirt life style. Vintage T shirts
in this reading of the market place are classic cars, kept in trim
and working order by enthusiasts. A T shirt should never be thrown
away, it should be kept for the requisite number of years whilst
it retreats through an unfashionable period and reappears as a vintage
T shirt for all to coo over like a five year old you haven't seen
since he was a new born baby.
extract from
'I love T shirts' by Jonathan Powell |
