You went through a whole East Coast winter bare-chested? Didn't anyone warn you about nipple frostbite?
More often than not, I'm wearing a t-shirt even if it's not the outermost layer of clothing or even visible at all. But then again I grew up in Vancouver and San Francisco, where the mantra is "dress in layers."
Actually, I had been wearing a T-shirt under my shirt until about 2 days before this entry - I meant here that I was wearing it as my main shirt.
We really need separate words for those, a T-shirt worn as an undershirt and a T-shirt worn as a top-layer shirt. When I was little I was convinced "T-shirt" only referred to the former and always called the latter "short-sleeved shirts", but apparently that distinction doesn't exist, so, blech.
Maybe this is a Canadian thing, but we always used the term "undershirt" to denote a t-shirt worn as the bottom layer of clothing. Some people seem to limit this term to white t-shirts meant as a form of underwear -- t-shirts you wouldn't typically, say, wear to school as your only shirt on a warm day. But my parents always referred to the bottom-layer t-shirt as an undershirt, regardless of its color or style, unless it was the only shirt I was wearing at all, in which case it was just a "t-shirt."
I hate shopping for clothes (yes, any day now I expect to receive by notice by mail that the authorities have revoked my homosexuality) so I don't do it very often, but last time I did I noticed a bunch of t-shirts sold as "dress t-shirts." This sounded like an oxymoron, so I asked, and was told they were the sort of t-shirts you could wear with a dressier jacket, like a sports coat.
To me, it looked like an excuse to charge $80 for t-shirts.
So it might be just as well there isn't a word for "a t-shirt not worn as an undershirt," since it might become a pretext for higher prices on same.
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Date: 2005-04-09 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-11 02:01 pm (UTC)More often than not, I'm wearing a t-shirt even if it's not the outermost layer of clothing or even visible at all. But then again I grew up in Vancouver and San Francisco, where the mantra is "dress in layers."
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Date: 2005-04-12 12:02 am (UTC)Actually, I had been wearing a T-shirt under my shirt until about 2 days before this entry - I meant here that I was wearing it as my main shirt.
We really need separate words for those, a T-shirt worn as an undershirt and a T-shirt worn as a top-layer shirt. When I was little I was convinced "T-shirt" only referred to the former and always called the latter "short-sleeved shirts", but apparently that distinction doesn't exist, so, blech.
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Date: 2005-04-12 10:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-12 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-13 04:51 am (UTC)To me, it looked like an excuse to charge $80 for t-shirts.
So it might be just as well there isn't a word for "a t-shirt not worn as an undershirt," since it might become a pretext for higher prices on same.