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what a bunch of schmatas!

caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 11 August 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

“It’s a fashion for these youngsters.” Steiner turns to his son, who’s manning the cash register. “Why they like the T-shirt long?”

“I have no clue,” mumbles Steve Steiner, 29. “They want it, so we get it.”

Joseph Steiner shrugs. “There’s your answer. I only wish my beytzim were so long,” he sighs, using the Yiddish word for testicles.

amon (eman), Thursday, 11 August 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

i do love that my future home has a neighborhood called pigtown

strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 11 August 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)


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today's lesson: civil disobedience
Bloomfield High School was a sea of white today as students wore oversized white t-shirts in solidarity against the school's controversial dress code, which bans, among other things, long t-shirts. Students say that at least 50 kids got suspended for dress code violations yesterday and about half the kids had their names written down in second period today for violating the code. Whether those will count as suspensions -- or just be reported to the Board of Ed -- was unclear. Many parents support the protest.

Principal Pat Orsini, who was concerned about pictures being taken without parental permission, would only say that he's enforcing the dress code at the direction of the board, and he referred all questions to schools superintendent Thomas Dowd. Dowd, whose office is across the street from the high school, wasn't there.


Students were exuberant in their organized defiance of the dress code and enthusiastically posed for this photo. We blacked out their eyes, in deference to Orsini, in order to protect their identities.

tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Thursday, 11 August 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

Thank you, journalism, for exposing the truth of the Galaxy Tall Tee... The Tall Tee makes me feel lame and out of it b/c every time I see guys wearing them I think, why not wear a shirt that fits, you look ridiculous. Yet now I'm kind of enamoured with the possible sociocultural reasoning behind it, even if it's not the full truth.

?It has driven the shorts to be longer, too,? says Andy Goetz, president of the Changes store chain. ?So now we sell capris to men, because they need to have their shorts visible below the shirt. Otherwise it looks like a dress.?
i sure thought i'd look smart in a pair of clam-digger shorts

rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

Big T-Shirts? You can't wear big t-shirts? Why? Tripping hazard???
Posted by: planet43 | October 9, 2004 03:27 PM


no, hip-hop hazard.
Posted by: karen | October 9, 2004 06:44 PM

tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

xxxpost - apparently it used to be the route to the slaughterhouse for piggys

amon (eman), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

I heard that people wear Long white T-shirts so that when they run from the cops, everyone literally looks the same and youhave a higher chance of getting away from authority in a chase with a bunch of friends, and won't be as easily recognizable on the street.
Is this true?

Posted by: Greg | August 3, 2005 03:06 PM

tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

remember that fresh prince when uncle phil wouldnt let will wear the prison jumpsuit outfit? he was a good kid, dammit!

strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

For some reason in Jersey City the tees are called "wizzle twizzles". The hipsters might have made this up, I spose, but I think I saw it on a store sign somewhere.

Laurel, Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

i always want to ambush someone wearing a wizzle twizzle and put a belt on them to make a 1980s shirtdress

caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

just keep your ear peeled for the gat going click-clack

amon (eman), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

when they run from the cops, everyone literally looks the same and youhave a higher chance of getting away from authority in a chase with a bunch of friends, and won't be as easily recognizable on the street.
Is this true?

This has always been part of the thing about uniforms.

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

“You better not bring that camera ’round here,” he says, rolling his eyes and laughing maniacally. “Them hoppers jump you right quick.”

Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 11 August 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

(I like the way these look. I'd wear one if I weren't the most pathologically un-hip-hop looking motherfucker in the history of the cosmos).

Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 11 August 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

ha i KNEW this thread would be about baltimore!

charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 11 August 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

It pains me that that article uses the terms "foppishness," "dandyism and "looking sharp" to describe a clown-sized white t-shirt.

walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 11 August 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

"Dandyism" got me too, but I was hoping the writer was using it in some shade I didn't exactly understand.

Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 11 August 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

Only in America could "dandyism" = wearing the most generic possible item of clothing in a size that doesn't actually fit you.

walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 11 August 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

this shit is SOOOO 12 months ago you wack-ass bitches!

hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 11 August 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

i want to know if this has anything to do with my regular non-freakishly sized undershirts costing $7.50 a piece ... wtf america

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 11 August 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

crazy black people! what are they like! ;-)

bn, Thursday, 11 August 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

log in ned u fagit

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 11 August 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

NEGROS

xpost

hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

Reclaiming long white robes from the klan, perhaps.

JimD (JimD), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)

They work well as night-shirts if you want to sleep in just a shirt and undies.

Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 11 August 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

the real hstencil or troll cloning the login? you decide

amon (eman), Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

i have one of these. it has tiffany on it.

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Surely getting upset about this is like at least fifteen years too late. I always thought the source of the long-top convention was, you know, making it harder to tell what you had or didn't have strapped around your waist -- like running back to the 80s -- and that long-shirting at this point is just a fashionable aesthetic echo of that. You could probably chart out some point around 1990 or something where city-black / hip-hop fashion dropped the shirt hem way down and way out, and in actual city practice it's more or less just stayed there.

nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Also they have a slimming effect.

nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Haha clown-sized

One one hand, these look reeeeediculous. On the other, I think it's really fascinating and cool how it opposes the corporate-logo look, and how it can be a canvas for custom designs instead. The comment from the store owners about how they're so cheap, they kill the fashion market was the most interesting remark in the whole article. How intentional is this I don't know. Probably isn't. But if it was I would love it.

-rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I still think these look cool.

Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

TS: dress like black trench coats vs. dress like white tshirts

-rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

T/S PLAIN TSHIRTS ARE KILLLING CLOTHING INDUSTRY VS. DOWNLOADS ARE KILLING MUSIC INDUSTRY

I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Thursday, 11 August 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

I like this look, and also the exxxxxxtra-long button-down baseball jersey type shirts, tho I know I cannot and should not pull it off myself.

I saw a few "NO WHITE T-SHIRTS" signs on clubs in New Orleans.

Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

fwiw, the theory that they make you blend in when running from police is not valid since the pants belted just below the buttocks make running impossible. In fact the wearers do more of a crabwalk thing.

When I was teaching this was against our dress code too. . or they tried to make it mainly b/c of the pants thing. They wanted boys' shirts tucked in so they'd be forced to pull their pants up over their drawers.

Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Also they have a slimming effect. - this is v true. Girls used to wear long t shirts to hide their fat bums.

isadora (isadora), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

I was going to start a thread about this a few weeks ago. This is definitely The Look in Brooklyn right now. A lot of people don't have the "long" tees, though, they just buy normal tees but in the super-large size, so that the hole for your neck is practically drooping down off their shoulders. I think it's great. The logo thing is definitely out.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Here they are called "tall tees".

Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

DEM FRANCHIZE BOYZ LYRICS

White Tees


Yup in my white tee [x12]

[Hook x2]
I slang in my white tee
I bang in my white tee
All in the club spitting game in my white tee
I bling in my white tee serve fiens in my white tee
Fuck a throwback i look clean in my white tee

[Verse 1]

Step on the scene with some green and some hard white work
Real clean fresh jeans and a all white shirt
We all get money and we all smoke twerk
Hit the dirt one squirt will leave all yall murk
Cause im fresh in my white tee they glance at my white tee and i
Got the hat that match my pants and my white tee
Whoever that you might see
I know they got a white tee
Uncle brother sister mother dad or ur wifey
Hanes or fruit of the loom be the
Name of my white tee
I gotta change man its a stain on my white tee
Lames in a white tee i bring the pain in my white tee
Hispanic cracka nigga even yangs wearin white tee
Hit the club deep and we all got a white tee
A throw back no that hell naw it dont excite me
You dont need no throwback cause you will be set on your white
Tee you can get a circle or a v neck on ur white tee

[Hook x2]

[Verse 2]

I hit the mall in my white tee
Ooh I think they like me or they like the diamonds cause they shine so brightly
Yeah u know i how i be under my tee it the wifey
.... or tighly
For them niggas who think im soft nigga come and try me
They going to find your body
White tees in the club and while we drinking on bacardi
Fuck throwbacks white tees in party
Now dont get me started gotta try bacardi
Drama we avoid it
Everyone one wear white tees cause they can afford it
Girls wear white tees, boys wear white tees
Niggas in the trap now i bet they got a white tee
I wear a white tee, you wear a white tee
The next day catch me with a brand new white tee
Oh they buy clean white shoes fresh jeans
But on that boy shirt what it say not a thingg

[Hook x2]

I gotta couple throwbacks it just I choose not to wear them
White tee extravganza nigga like a foot locker sale
Niggas think i done fail but my paper stacking a lot
Or you can throw back this but
Partner check my nine
And im a ghetto gangsta white tee laws gone hate ya
Street gangs with a little fame them hoes gonna chase ya
Can't exscape from this white shit it done covered the map
Like crack been her in the 80s and it took over the trap
Come to the hood you can find me trapping in my white tee
Standing with a full grill niggas might try me know how i be still in my white tee
Rock jeans tiger green yeah girls like me
Haters try to bite me
Some try to dislike me
Became a rich nigga and the feds try to indicte me

Yup in my white tee [x12]

jeremy jordan (cruisy), Friday, 12 August 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

rainbow bum what makes you think it 'probably isnt' intentional?

jeremy jordan (cruisy), Friday, 12 August 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

Is it? Please tell more. That would be an exceptional trend. I'm just assuming based on interacting with people who think it's uncool to shop at thrift stores or drive a used car, and they would rather spend their entire minimum wage paycheck on jewelry than go to school or something. I know, it's not polite, but that's what happens when someone tells me "one of my ree-yims cost more than your whole car."

-rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Friday, 12 August 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

its definitely anti-fashion & anti-label, youre an idiot

3, Friday, 12 August 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

Show me, i'm interested but the article doesn't say that. "Urban camouflage" suggests anti-police profile not anti-label. The person complaining about the fashion market was a store owner not a wearer. And how is wearing shit that doesn't fit and isn't practical to keep clean just because everyone else is doing it "anti fashion."

-rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Friday, 12 August 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

I gotta couple throwbacks it just I choose not to wear them

3, Friday, 12 August 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

UR SWIMMIN IN THOSE, HOMEY!!! SERIOUSLY, I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW DUDES DONT FEEL STR8 UP EMASCULATED IN THOSE GHETTO GOWNS, THAT SHIT IS LIKE MATERNAL WEAR.

PS. FUCK U IF U DISAGREE

tikki tikki tembo no sa rembo chari bari ruchi pip peri pembo (Adrian Langston), Friday, 12 August 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

I think white tees are a pretty fucking cool fashion statement.

Just wait 20 years, hipsters will be wearing them like they were 80s rapper track jackets now.

deej.., Friday, 12 August 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

fashion statement, symbol of cultural unity, social solidarity.

deej.., Friday, 12 August 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

uh huh

whiteout (bobnope), Friday, 12 August 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

So I'm just a hipster ahead of the trend?

Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 12 August 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

"Just wait 20 years, hipsters will be wearing them like they were 80s rapper track jackets now."

LOL AND THIS IS AN ENDORSEMENT?

tikki tikki tembo no sa rembo chari bari ruchi pip peri pembo (Adrian Langston), Friday, 12 August 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

BLACKS WEAR FUNNY CLOTHES LIKE CLOWNS!! WHITES ARE AIGHT THO!! ;-)

bn, Friday, 12 August 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

... I'm saying hipsters are behind the times, and many of the people who 'object' to the style will probably rock it when enough time has passed for it to be 'ironically' acceptable.

deej.., Friday, 12 August 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

i have never heard of this trend before.

dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 12 August 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW DUDES DONT FEEL STR8 UP EMASCULATED IN THOSE GHETTO GOWNS, THAT SHIT IS LIKE MATERNAL WEAR.

PS. FUCK U IF U DISAGREE

"I AGREE MMMMM THIS PUNK CHOCLATE IS GOOODDDD WROD UP"

http://www.chocolatebarnyc.com/images/ill-cbgb.gif

amon (eman), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

Also they have a slimming effect. - this is v true. Girls used to wear long t shirts to hide their fat bums.

http://www.horkulated.com/images/articles/20050316120455150_1.jpg

I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Let's talk about ill-fitting bathing suits

PappaWheelie II, Friday, 12 August 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

http://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2005/04/07/mia1_202.jpg
Also they have a slimming effect. - this is v true. Girls used to wear long t shirts to hide their fat bums.

I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

This is the new millenium, no girl should be ashamed of a 'fat bum.'

deej.., Saturday, 13 August 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday I saw a "no snitches" long tee... eek

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

tracer dont tell!!

jeremy jordan (cruisy), Sunday, 14 August 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Wait, deej, what will you be wearing in twenty years?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 August 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

YOur mom on my dick

3272357845, Sunday, 14 August 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

is your mom size XXXXXXXXXXXXXL ?

amon (eman), Sunday, 14 August 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

AW SHIT

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 14 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)


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