We were having a discussion today about those T-shirt’s that carried political/ ethical statements. There seems to be so much going on today that is contentious that I would find it difficult to work out what my slogan would be. Yesterday I read that the farms that provide many of our supermarkets with avocados are no respecters of human rights. So today mine would have to feature their workers. I think that I will need lots of new T-shirt’s, a problem in itself.
Increasingly politics and social issues are reduced to short slogans and a facebook or twitter status, that we must all slavishly follow. To question invites a tirade of anger and abuse. But slogans cant replace reasoned debate and nuance. I caught sight of a t shirt worn by a woman protesting recently that seemed to suit my current frame of mind. A black t shirt with Thought Criminal in big white letters
I have a couple I bought to wear on demos..a Hope not Hate one and Palestine one. I wear them now as "walking" tees. I also have a black tee with a silver spider
I wouldn’t wear anything with writing on it unless I was attending a demo or protest of some kind. In fact in m and s thought I’d found a navy hoodie, only to find it had LOVELY written in the front. Why? Just why ?
You are getting very defensive of this imaginary tee with a slogan Lucca ? so, having already apologised I will fold my tee up and put it in a drawer now.
I never buy clothes with slogans either, or anything else come to that, you know, all those word ornaments, LOVE etc or wall stencils with a thought for the day?
Before I retired, all of the teachers and admin. at my school chose sayings to add to their email signatures. I had this one that I'd always liked (by Emerson):
"The only true gift is a portion of thyself"
Also, I'm an admitted snowflake, so I already have t-shirts that say: "Kind People Are My Kind of People", and "You Can't Buy Love, But You Can Rescue It"