Meh Shirt on American Apparel
- Authentic Meh logo just like the pros wear
- Choose Cranberry, Navy, Brown, or Eggplant, with unforeseen, lifelong implications
- Sizing runs on the small side, so size up if you’re not used to American Apparel sizing, or if you like to give your gut some jiggle room
- Women’s sizes are especially small: definitely go up a size or buy a men’s size
- Expect delivery to take a couple of weeks, since we’re printing these starting tomorrow
- We raised the price to lower demand
- Model: 2001, 2102
You don't always choose which side you're on.
Think about the loyalties that define your life. To a city, a region, a nation. To a school, a team, a party, a church. To a musical subculture or a brand of truck. How many of your loyalties were choices? And how many did you stumble into by accident - including the accident of birth?
Today you may think you’re choosing a shirt based simply on the visual appeal of the color. You think cranberry looks better with your skin tone. Or brown does. Or you like navy because it goes with a lot of different colors. Or you just like eggplant (American Apparel’s dark purple, as opposed to the brighter color they call purple).
In so choosing, you’re not only reflecting the unconscious biases and loyalties you bring to that choice. You’re also committing yourself to a new loyalty, without even realizing it.
What are we talking about? You’ll see in the coming weeks, months, centuries, on this very website. Your loyalty to Team Cranberry, or Team Navy, or Team Brown, or Team Eggplant will come to the fore. It will forge new bonds where none existed, and sever others.
Your apparently casual choice of t-shirt color will define you and the way you interact with the members of this virtual community, as surely as your loyalties of blood and heart define you in your real community. As battles unfold, as enmities grow, as points are added to and subtracted from each house like they do over the course of a Harry Potter novel, those colors will acquire a meaning and resonance beyond anything you can imagine right now. Your team will be your haven, your refuge, your prison.
But hey, don’t overthink it. Just buy the one you think you like. Destiny will take care of the rest. It always does.
