Geeky T-Shirts I Own, Or, A Geek’s Complete Lack Of Style
Note: This post started out as an entry to Engtech’s writing contest regarding T-Shirts, but morphed into something more ridiculous. I realize I’m past the deadline of that contest, so this is no longer an entry.
I’ll admit I’m a total fashion incompetent. Clothes have never interested me, and I’m pretty much comfortable in some variation of jeans, T-shirts, and nondescript shoes. It’s function over form, and I don’t really care about the form so long as it enables me to put it on and get it off quickly.
For this reason, I dislike button down shirts, tucking shirts in, belts, hats, and gloves. About the only thing I can be bothered with on a daily basis is tying shoes and zipping up a jacket.
The only element of clothing I’ve had more than a passing interest in is the utilitarian jacket that has pockets. Pockets that one can keep an electronic device of some sort, as in an iPod or cellphone. Lastly, there is the lap top bag, which luckily my wife works for Waterfield Designs so that takes care of that.
In the past I had a strange fascination with off-green, mustard yellow, black, stripes and argyle patterns - all of which I’ve been moving away from (much to the relief of my wife).
In terms of brand names I seem settled on the San Francisco triumvirate of the Old Navy, The Gap, and Banana Republic, with occasional forays into Land’s End and J. Crew. I once bought a very expensive sweater (woven from the fur of some furry creature - alpaca? Arugula?) from Urban Outfitters that I mistakenly put in the washing machine and dryer despite the label saying “hand wash only.” That expensive mistake did not teach me how to wash clothes; no, it actually pointed out that buying expensive clothing in my case is a waste of money and reiterated that lesson about form over function.
I also find many of the clothes at sites such as threadless and Gama-Go interesting but I think it has more to do with the business model than the clothes themselves.
That said, I do have a collection of geeky T-shirts. They’re a great promotional product for tech companies because of low cost and pretty much everyone (from engineers to marketing) will wear one. I have one custom-made shirt in particular that superimposed the head of our startup’s founder on the body of Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies, with his catch phrase as “Ship it!” instead of “Zip it!”. Pretty cool. The actual reference was that the product being shipped was a smaller hardware version of the previous model, hence the code name: “Mini Me.” Not that our founder was evil and petted a furless cat.
Yes, that’s the sort of geek humor that dictates my clothing. I have no fashion sense.
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