CONFESS!!!!!! What's the oldest t-shirt in your collection & its history?

[LynneSin]

I was digging through my tee-shirt drawer (I have 2.5 drawers filled with t-shirts) and I found a favorite from back in 1990 - My 'Nasty Boys' T-shirt from the 1990 World Series Reds. I went to game #2 of the NLCS in Cincinnati and I stopped in the Reds Gift Shop to get a tee-shirt. Almost all of their tee-shirts were sold out except for like really small sizes and they only had one 'Nasty Boys' (the nickname for their relief pitchers Rob Dibble, Norm Charlton & Randy Myers) left and it was on a Manniken.

The manager of the shop REFUSED to sell that t-shirt but I still promptly disassembled the manniken so I could get the last tee-shirt (fortunately an XL). Finally the other 2 clerks in the store relented and rang up the shirt for me. They even gave me a free poster of the Nasty Boys for my efforts.

I have 2 other t-shirts that have great history to them that are almost as old, but they have a very naughty history behind them :eyes:

What's the oldest t-shirt in your closet and what's the story behind it

:D

[Bridget Burke]

1. Mid Seventies.....

Houston establishments that I frequented: Liberty Hall, Anderson Fair, the Old Quarter.

Concerts: Cosmic Cowboy benefit for KFPT, Bruce Springsteen, etc.

Need to make a serious study...

[7th_Sephiroth]

19. Super mario t-shirt

from 1986

[DarkPhenyx]

2. "Dragonslayer" t-shirt.

It's about 20 years old and I can still fit into it.

It came free with a video game we bought for our "Odyssey" game system all those years ago. Being the wargaming geek that I am I keep it around.

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Anyone else remember that game? Hell, do you even remember the game system?

[JVS]

37. This one right?

[TXlib]

3. I have a T-shirt from 1982 or so.

It is still in wearable condition, although it doesn't fit me anymore. Maybe one of my kids will like it.

It was a gift from my aunt from when she went to France: it features Gaston LaGaffe, and he is look sleepy, and thinking, "La première gaffe, c'est de se lever!" (Translation: "The first mistake is getting out of bed!")

[FunBobbyMucha]

4. Fishbone

I have a black Fishbone tee with their original logo--a red circle around a (glow-in-the-dark)fishbone. The same one John Cusack is wearing in "Say Anything." It was wearing out and I was gonna toss it when I saw SA and the Man wearing it, and thought "Awwww..."

17 years later, it is still hanging in my closet.

[GOPisEvil]

5. My "Elephant Walk" t-shirt from college.

The background: After the building of the annual bonfire at Texas A&M, the seniors would gather arm in arm at Sully's statue in front of the academic building. From there, they wander around campus "like elephants looking for a final resting place". We'd go through the fountains, by all the buildings, ending up at the bonfire site for yell practice. The juniors would bombard us with shaving cream and mud. It was all very good fun! I still have the t-shirt, although I don't wear it anymore.

So, this shirt dates from November 1989.

I've also got a couple t-shirts I've never worn. A "crown of thorns" House of Blues shirt (which I hear they don't make any more). And a Rolling Stones concert shirt from 1994. It never fit me from the day I bought it, although it fits now. I've just never gotten the urge to wear it. :shrug:

[Another Bill C.]

6. 1986 Senior Class Play.

In 1986 I played Doc the Druggist in a high school production of West Side Story. My daughter and older son were in the play, too. I don't know when Ive ever had such a great time.

I still have my cast T-shirt and my Jets T-shirt. The shirts are medium size and now I'm XL.

[meegbear]

7. Roger Waters Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking concert shirt ...

A msucle shirt; Haven't worn it in years, but I still hang onto it.

[pansypoo53219]

8. i have some of my uncles Ts

of unknown vintage. a styx concert T. a VIKINGS T(In WI???) well, we are part norwegan, and others.

[tsakshaug]

9. Three

Boy scout camp counselor about 1976 or 77
Track team t shirt about the same age.

they still fit!
never wear them

[YellowRubberDuckie]

10. An old MIckey Mouse tshirt from 5th or 6th grade...

I wore it out...it was from like 89, 90. I was a spaz as a kid...and used to wear it all the time, like three, four times a week...it's wash worn and the vunyl looking stuff that made up mickey in neon colors is quite worn and cracked.
Duckie

[Kathleen04]

23. lol, Duckie, I could have said the same thing!

Same time period too, I had a similar shirt when I was a kid..I was alot younger though, 3 or 4, I think I might have actually had two of the same shirt..but it had a plastic-y material Mickey Mouse on the front. I wanted to wear those shirts all the time, but mom wanted to try to put me in dresses! x(

:)

[SOteric]

11. I have a 10 year old t-shirt

from my first charity marathon for the American Cancer Society.

That's about as old as it gets in my closet.

[Robb]

12. My Dio t-shirt.

...And I refuse to elaborate. :evilgrin:

[catmandu57]

13. 1975 disintegrating Marijuana

leaf shirt approved by the U.D.D.A. (United Dope Dealers Association).
It was my concert uniform, and is falling to pieces in my closet.

[EV1Ltimm]

14. A 1992 Metallica shirt

for the 91-93 "wherever i may roam" tour.

it pales in comparison to some other poster's shirts, but nonetheless, it's half my age.

[kodi]

15. orange "Ode to an Oosik" tee given to me by my mom in 1977

she was stationed in sitka, alaska for the government GAO IG office investigating forestry service personnel using federal helicopters for illegal big game hunting and found it in a small store about 70 miles inland from sitka.

the shirt had a male/female pair of large smiling walruses on the front and on the back was the poem.

ODE TO AN OOSIK

Strange things have been done in the Midnight Sun,
And the storybooks are full
But the strangest tale concerns the male
Magnificent walrus bull.

I know it is rude, quite common, and crude,
Perhaps it is grossly unkind
But with first glance at least, this bewhiskered beast
Is as ugly in front as behind.

Look once again; take a second one then,
You’ll see he is not ugly or vile
There’s a hint of a grin, in that blubbery chin
And the eyes have a sly secret smile

How can this be, this clandestine glee
That extrudes from the walrus like music
He knows there inside, beneath blubber and hide
Lies a splendid contrivance, the Oosik!

“Oosik” you say and quite well you may
I’ll explain if you keep it between us
In the simplest truth, though rather uncouth
Oosik is, in fact his penis

Now size alone of this walrus bone
Would indeed arouse envious thinking
It is also a fact, documentation and backed
There is never a softening or shrinking

This then is why the smile is so sly
The walrus is rightfully proud
Though the climate is frigid, the walrus is rigid
Pray why is not man so endowed?
Added to this is a smile you might miss
Though the bull is entitled to bow
The one to out smile the our bull by the mile
Is the satisfied cow.


that shirt was a babe magnet.

[Ganja Ninja]

16. I still have a Mr. Natural T-shirt from the early seventies.

I haven't worn it in over 25 years. It's a memento from the days of sex, drugs and rock N' roll.

[EstimatedProphet]

17. I know I must still have some Deadhead shirts around

from 1995-I bought a bunch of them in Memphis. Jerry died later that year...

[fudge stripe cookays]

18. "I Think I Can, I think I can, I think I can...

Well, I'm pretty sure I can.
Oh God, what if I can't, never could and never will?
I can, I will, and I MUST!
What are you looking at, buster?"

Purchased at Sound Warehouse around 1987 with my employee discount. This sucker is so thin it's almost Kleenex by now. But the saying is so funny, it's hard to get rid of.

[liberalhistorian]

20. I have some Chicago,

Bob Seger, and Bruce Springsteen t-shirts from concerts in the early 80's that I attended with an old boyfriend. They're still in my drawer, but I really, really doubt if they'd fit anymore, lol!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

21. GNU & Linux, the dynamic duo

Circa 1999 or 2000, bought when I attended a conference by Richard M. Stallman.

http://www.gnu.dk/order/t-shirts.html#1999

Couldn't find an image.

[AlabamaYankee]

22. From the mid-sixties

It's a State College (PA) High School Phys Ed uniform shirt. Yes, boys and girls., once in the dim past before recorded history, not only was phys ed required, you had to buy the uniform shirt and shorts. Girls wore ugly and uncomfortable one piece green thingys so as to retain their modesty, or some such.

Mrs. AY keeps wanting me to throw it out, but it's nowe reached historic artifact status, so I don't dare to.

[VelmaD]

24. I have 2 from back in the 1970s...

I have a t-shirt with the name and mascot from my elementary school. And I have the shirt I wore for my YMCA basketball team back in the late 70s.

[RobinA]

25. Greek Week

1977. There's a Rolling Stones t-shirt of a similar vintage floating around somewhere. Greek Week and the Stones have been retired from service, but are still a proud part of the collection. Now that I think about it, there are two Disney World shirts from around that time, too.

[leftofthedial]

26. Willie Nelson's Picnic circa 1974

no longer wearable

It was a GREAT time.

[Bertha Venation]

27. Orange Softball Champs

It's gray, has "Orange Softball Champions" in blue and a bright orange softball/orange. I can't wear it anymore; it's in tatters and falling apart. I think I got it w/ a team I played on in '89.

[BritishHuman]

28. "Ho Hum, Just another shitty day in paradise."

A huge XXL t-shirt I bought at university showing a man in a hammock on a beach sipping a cocktail.

It's my summer t-shirt - still, thankfully, extremely baggy.

[LynneSin]

29. Other memorable tee-shirts found in collection

My Surf Shop Tee: Got that for flashing my breasts in a bar about 6 years ago in OCMD. Mind you - I was shitfaced at the time.

My "Who's on Third Pub" Tee: Got that when I first moved to Philly (hence making it older than my Nasty Boys Shirt) from the bar with the same name. I knew what Charlie Brown's Dad's job was (He's a barber)

My Outer Banks NC tee: Mind you I've never been there, but that came from a torrid affair I had about 12 years ago. We'll leave the juicy part out for fear of locking this thread.

[Westegg]

30. 1977 Led Zeppelin. I wear it proudy.

I may have older ones in storage...I bought the Zep T at one of their 1977 shows at Madison Square Garden. I think I also have a '76 Jefferson Starship T, along with a '77 Pink Floyd, and an Aerosmith '76, but I left these latter shirts behind in Pittsburgh, and I can only hope they've made it into storage. I should check that out. These suckers sell for a mint now!!

[av8rdave]

31. 1979 Jethro Tull - "Stormwatch" Tour

n/t

[northofdenali]

32. I still have one with a huge pot leaf on it from 1969!

Got it in Maui over spring vacation, and although the orange shirt's a bit faded, it's still all in one piece!

[welshTerrier2]

33. 1972, George Segal, George McGovern and Superman

there i was, on my way to buy a few t-shirts during august of 1972 in the town of freeport, n.y. ...

i parked my car and started walking towards the store when i was stopped on the street by George Segal, the actor ... he was campaigning for George McGovern who was in the process of losing 49 of 50 states to Nixon ...

i bought 2 superman t-shirts that day ... one red, one blue ... i still have them ... suffice it to say that they don't fit anymore ...

[djeseru]

34. Isis, 1979

Great shirt from the Tutankhamen exhibit in San Francisco.

[5thGenDemocrat]

35. I have a "collection" of -- I don't know -- 600 or 700 tee shirts

Enough that they fill a 4' x 2' x 2' steamer trunk. And I still have the first one, which is kelly green and on the back, inside an octagonal outline, it reads" "STOP Eat Dirt Cheap at FULLER'S, Phoebus, Virginia."
Fuller's was where a lot of us Signal Corps types ate lunch, just outside of Fort Monroe. Maybe arwalden or one of the other Hampton-area DUers could tell me if it's still there. I haven't been back to the area since 1976.
John
I don't wear it any more -- it's now so flimsy it would probably shred (plus, alas, I've put on a few pounds since my Army days).

[LTR]

36. A fraternity party shirt from early 90s

Can't remember the year. Or the party, for that matter.

I refuse to discard it!

[SarahB]

38. Peace t-shirt ordered from Sassy Magazine in 1988

[BlackVelvetElvis]

39. A 1975 Rolling Stones tour shirt.

My sister saw them, bought the shirt and later gave it to me.

[Bundbuster]

40. Kent State tee from 1970

Still wearing it in regular rotation. They just don't make 'em like they used to.

[GOPisEvil]

41. Today's the anniversary, too.

Four dead in Ohio. :-(

[Bundbuster]

43. Today?

I remember Kent State like it was yesterday - a very profound influence on my lifestance against the octopus.

[GOPisEvil]

44. Nope...not today...the article I read earlier today was incorrect.

May 4, 1970 is the correct date.

Sorry for the confusion.

[Donkeyboy75]

42. "No Lights in Wrigley"

It's a godawful yellow with red silkscreen print. Circa 1985 or '86. On the back it just says "Support Day Baseball"

Outline of the Wrigley Field scoreboard too. It's a keeper.

[nemo137]

45. green Mu330 t-shirt from a concert they did at a local festival here.

i bought it because i was so covered in sweat from skanking that i needed something to wear home. i just wore it yesterday, and discovered two new holes.