Age Limit on Graphic Tees?
15I had a great day. My husband had asked me to go on a motorcycle ride with him to a town a couple hours away. I was excited because I love to search for gamestop clearance deals on apparel and knew that store usually popped up when I was looking for stores with inventory of what I wanted. So, I spent a while searching through the clearance while he got ready to go and had ordered 4 shirts, a tumbler, and a pair of socks to be picked up.
When we arrived at the gamestop, we were the only folks there and the lady behind the counter was super nice. She encouraged me to look through two other racks of clearance tees they had for 75% off and said that to not pay attention to the price tags as the boys who worked in the store didn’t like to price every shirt and to just make a pile of shirts I liked and she would check the prices for me on the register. I ended up buying 13 shirts. Hubbie browsed around and picked out 2 games for $20. My total was just over $50.
Now to the title of the post, do you feel there is an age limit on wearing graphic tees? They are my favorite and I think it is fun to pick which character I want to wear for the day. Sometimes I feel a little out of place as I don’t know other women my age wearing anime or video game tees but then I figure it doesn’t matter what anyone else is wearing. I thought I would see if there were any kindred spirits here that enjoy wearing graphic tees even though most folks your age don’t.
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I’ll probably be wearing graphic tees until the day I die. I’ll also be the crazy old lady with the long hair.
@RiotDemon I’ll be rolling down the nursing home halls with Naruto shirts on, lol.
@RiotDemon I wanted to be the old lady with the long hair (braid). Always imagined it. But then it ended up getting too thin and was so long it was getting caught in everything and breaking off. Hadda cut it. UGH.
Nope no age limit on fun stuff, or any stuff for that matter. Like you said if you like it, you will be happy in it or using it and it will show and you will pull it off. I love your haul that you got !!! Now I am in the rabbit hole which is GameStop clearance apparel and stuff- and will prob be here a while. I’ll post my haul tomorrow lol
@cardiganb Hope you find some awesome stuff!
In the immortal words of Mork
Fly! Be Free!
Wear what you want
Why would there be an age limit on t-shirts with graphics on them?
@Kidsandliz because some adults think fun should be banned.
@Kidsandliz @RiotDemon some people love to kill the joy for others. Those people are miserable jerks.
@Kidsandliz @RiotDemon
Exactly why I have been labeled a “manchild” by a handful of people. Maybe two handfuls of folks. IMHO though, I think maybe they’re just jealous that I can choose to live with joy in my life, unconcerned with the judgement of others. And they’re trying to somehow turn my fun into a smelly funk.
I admit, there are very few adults my age who play COD or Plants vs. Zombies, or watch cartoons on Saturday morning, or have Pac Man Blinky ghost lights in their bedroom, or actually look forward to Halloween, or any of the dozens of other “immature” things I find joy in. BUT… just because everyone else isn’t doing it doesn’t make it wrong. I work hard, I pay my bills, I vote, clean my house… all the stuff adults are supposed to do, so why take a leak on my joy?
@Kidsandliz @RiotDemon @ruouttaurmind Wait, who is showing cartoons on Saturday morning? I was thrilled this morning to see my all-time favorite episode of McMillan and Wife, but would have given it up for some Looney Tunes.
@Kidsandliz @mossygreen @RiotDemon @ruouttaurmind
Which iteration of Looney Tunes?
@mossygreen Amz Prime Video includes dozens of compilations of classic Looney Tunes. From the old classics through the crappy ‘80s. But I usually watch those at night when I’m tucked up and finishing off the last few emails before sleeping.
For me, lately it’s been Hey Arnold and Rugrats on Saturday morning. They play at night on Nickelodeon and I have the DVR set to record them. Also Catdog, Ren & Stimpy, Fairly Odd Parents and Jimmy Neutron.
@ruouttaurmind Ah, you’re making your OWN Saturday morning cartoons.
@mossygreen I know it’s not the same without all the Count Chocula commercials and toy advertisements, but there is actually a compilation of those on Amz PV also.
@ruouttaurmind Looks like I have barely scratched the surface of amazon prime video. Between these and Dark Shadows I should probably start crocheting so I can justify so much time spent directly in front of the tv.
@Kidsandliz @RiotDemon
Looks like you scored. My moto is “Fthem if they don’t like it. Nice hall. Glad you had a good time.
As others have already stated in other ways, be yourself and wear whatever you want.
I am older than you and choose to wear graphic shirts. I tend more to sarcasm and snark than anime but that is my personal preference. I would buy a couple of the shirts you showed to wear. A couple I don’t recognize but I am old without kids to keep me up on all the cool stuff.
TLDR: I agree with the above comments, wear what you like.
I’m 44, and all 60+ of my tshirts are pop culture graphic tees. Only one OPM shirt so far. I want an oppai hoodie, like Saitama has, but I don’t want to be the guy wearing an oppai hoodie around, so I stick to my Brotherhood of Steel hoodie.
YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 18 TO BUY COMEDY TEE SHIRTS WITH GRAPHIC CONTENT.
I’m 47, and I stopped giving a flying f*** about what others thought years ago. I like being a modern weirdo.
Nobody at work has to know I’m wearing a catshirt or band t-shirt under my business-casual attire.
I wear what I want, subject [as minimally as possible] to the LETTER of the employee manual of whatever health system I work at, usually with accessories that they don’t care for, but can’t officially come down on.
Outside of work- I wear pretty much what feels right to me, usually gets at least a smile, and sometimes a laugh, or a “Nice shirt…” from those I pass.
This sometimes draws censure from SWMBO’s sister, who thinks that she is the voice of culture and refinement, but I either ignore her, or wear something I know she disapproves of, just to get a rise out of her.
The only people’s opinions I actually care about love me the way I am, and wouldn’t think less of me unless I wore something that was racist or otherwise hurtful to someone else, which they know I won’t.
Most of my shirts I wear now came from meh.
I have to say that the one shirt that garner me some obvious looks of distaste is my Archer-T, which has him in a tactical-neck, saying “I can’t hear you over the sound of my own awesomeness”-
The looks were from old people- older than my late 50’s- like 60’s and up
- and the way it looked to me, they had no idea that the shirt was a reference to anything except my own [pretty nonexistent] monomaniacal egotism…
You know what it isn’t my taste in style. However, you like them. You should wear what makes you happy. One nice thing about being an adult is that we get to dress ourselves. So wear what makes you happy. Graphic t shirts are appropriate in many cases around the house and the gym and in casual situations. Enjoy them. Enjoy being you and show the world the wonderful quirky excellence that is you. Follow your own style.
NO LIMIT!
I often tell my kids, “serious is something you should be when you’re not allowed to be funny”. There are flat out inappropriate times to wear graphic t-shirts… maybe work culture or funerals… depending on where you work or who died. But that’s about it. Enjoy your new gear!
My dad is a very young 83 and he wears some pretty cool graphic t’s quite often. And they look good.
Still wearing Fleetwood Mac and Lynyrd Skynyrd tees at 69. Appropriate for my age I think.
Catshirts.
Wear what makes you happy. I just got my "You can f#×k with s, you can’t f#=÷without us short for planned parenthood. I am sure many will frown on it for many reasons.
They are my work “uniform”, and I’m just shy of 60.
My mom bought my dad some t shirts on clearance for him to work in the yard. I think they were $3 each. One has cartman in police gear and says respect my authoritah! & the other has HUSTLER made out of material with dollar signs on it. He is 70. He works outside every day during the summer so he can go through some shirts. The looks he got with those were hilarious. He didn’t care what was written on them.
Tangent:
When did Gamestop start selling shirts?
It’s possible I haven’t been in one in four or five years, but I don’t recall ever seeing shirts, and I don’t know if it’s because they weren’t there, or if I’ve just never noticed as I’ve always just made a bee-line to the bins of older-gen games.
Of course, one doesn’t ask this question without expecting all the self-styled “free spirits” and militant individualists and the Ima Be Me! crowd to weigh in, and self-righteously, at that. So this thread does have a whiff of troll bait to it.
And, the aforementioned having weighed in with anecdotes of just how very unique and idiosyncratic, or deliberately offensive they can be, the answer comes down more to context than age. If you’re at Burning Man or Cabo, go nuts. A job interview, something above sign-spinner, or a family wedding or funeral, probably not. First date and you’re trying to impress, no. First date and you’re wearing your This Is Me! I’m Zany T-shirt Guy! Love Me, Warts and All, or Screw You hat, then sure, why not?
Consider Penn Jillette’s admonition - “Don’t be the Parrot Guy.”
But you already knew this. You were just looking to share your “whacky” nature and encourage the like-minded whacky t-shirt crowd to weigh in, weren’t you?
@cadmore Seeing as I said " I thought I would see if there were any kindred spirits here that enjoy wearing graphic tees even though most folks your age don’t." in my original post, that was obvious. Why does it anger you so that I was looking for people that also enjoy wearing fun shirts though the majority may not?
Perhaps you are providing the whiff of troll yourself by feeling the need to chime in. Either way, I hope you enjoy the rest of your Monday.
/giphy have a great day
There’s little enough joy in this fucking world. Wear the shirts you like.
@arielleslie I do. Crocs with socks too.
@sammydog01 Please don’t tell me they’re pink sequin crocs.
@narfcake They don’t actually make pink sequin Crocs. I checked.
@sammydog01
@narfcake @sammydog01 It makes them even better if you attach the pink sequins yourself.