| For too many years; clothing stores, retail outlets, | | | | least fifty dollars for a shirt that looks like it just |
| and well known luxury brands have been duping the | | | | came out of a bucket of wet paint. But are these |
| public (like myself) into buying clothes that not only I | | | | occasionally tacky things worth it? In my personal |
| didn't need, but clothes that literally burned a hole | | | | and fashion educated opinion: no, not in the slightest. |
| through my wallet and into my bank account. Even | | | | These graphic tees are no better than the cheap t |
| today I still find myself bombarded by magazines and | | | | shirts that you see street vendors in New York City |
| billboards that are trying to get me to look like movie | | | | selling for five dollars a pop. Not only are these |
| stars and celebrities by buying their clothing at | | | | essentially worth nothing, but the process for |
| god-awful prices. With the advent of technology and | | | | creating clothing graphic t shirts have completely |
| creative institutions, clothing has reached the point | | | | changed with the advent of user generated content |
| where if we wanted to, we could put shoes on the | | | | spawned by the web 2.0 movement. People have |
| feet of every person in the world for next to free. | | | | do-it-yourself videos explaining how to do screen |
| Not only shoes, but we could put shirts and shorts | | | | printing, iron on transfers, and other ways to make |
| on them. We could even give them canvas bags to | | | | your own cheap t shirts for a few dollars. Who |
| carry stuff in. However; let's take a look at t-shirts | | | | needs high fashion when you have your own |
| and their function in American society today in terms | | | | personal and individualist trendy vector splash on your |
| of price, availability, and quality to illustrate this idea. | | | | back? People will be coming to -you- for ideas for |
| Graphic T-Shirts are worn by pretty much everyone, | | | | their clothing lines. With the ability to make your own |
| at least as far as urban and suburban life is | | | | cheap t shirts out of high quality materials, why the |
| concerned, and many of these shirts come from | | | | heck are you still spending so much money on your |
| expensive and well known designers whom charge at | | | | luxury 'junk'? |