# TV threads. (The kind you wear) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2005, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-threads-the-kind-you-wear/284740 "2005-01-14T17:34:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-threads-the-kind-you-wear/284740/1 "2005-01-14T17:34:20Z")
I’ll make a confession. I have a Doctor Who scarf. Actually I have two of them. One was made by my mom, the other by my aunt. I don’t really wear them out anymore; they just sit very ornately on my coatstand, gathering yards of dust. But in high school, with a devil-may-care attitude that frankly surprises me to look back on it, I cheerfully wrapped them up and wore them around. They are very handy to have on a cold day, I will admit. Anyway, it got me to thinking: what TV characters have inspired very particular clothing items, wardrobes, or “looks”? And which of these have you adopted yourself at one time or another? Anyone have an old pair of Mork suspenders or a white “Crockett” sport jacket in the closet? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-threads-the-kind-you-wear/284740/2 "2005-01-14T17:38:45Z")
When you say “Crocket,” I think of Davy’s coonskin cap – of which I have a replica hanging in my foyer. I’ve never actually had the nerve to wear it in public, though. Anyone remember the “Friends” flashback with Ross and Chandler dressed a la Flock of Seagulls/“Miami Vice”? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-threads-the-kind-you-wear/284740/3 "2005-01-14T23:52:18Z")
Doctor Who scarf. Buckaroo Bonzai headband(not tv, just thought I’d throw it in the mix.) Highlander jersey. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-threads-the-kind-you-wear/284740/4 "2005-01-15T00:44:45Z")
I have a dentist who blow his nose . . . Oh, what? Never mind. Back in the mid-80s, the folks at my ad agency decided to have a Dress Like Don Johnson Day. We all came in wearing pastel T-shirts, unstructured linen jackets with the sleeves rolled back, baggy pants, loafers with no socks, and big ol’ sunglasses. The scary thing is, _we all had the outfits at home_. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-threads-the-kind-you-wear/284740/5 "2005-01-15T00:48:34Z")
Another Dr. Who scarf here. When my youngest got to high school age, he swiped it from me. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-threads-the-kind-you-wear/284740/6 "2005-01-15T01:36:52Z")
While I don’t have any TV threads, I do have a TiVo cycling shirt. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-threads-the-kind-you-wear/284740/7 "2005-01-15T03:32:33Z")
Somewhere I may still have a “DaveTV” shirt, bought from MTV (with a _rubber check!_) tying in with David Lee Roth’s “Just a Gigolo” video. Continuing the MTV theme I have a satin MTV/Twisted Sister jacket that I got as part of the prize package when I won MTV’s “Twisted Invasion” contest in high school. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-threads-the-kind-you-wear/284740/8 "2005-01-15T04:27:06Z")
Does a homemade “Frank Burns Eats Worms” t-shirt count? ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-threads-the-kind-you-wear/284740/9 "2005-01-15T09:06:06Z")
I too had a Doctor Who scarf. I wore it all the time during college, when we were _supposed_ to be eccentric. Right now, I’ve got a _hitai-ate_ – a headband with a metal plate that has a leaf logo engraved on it – from the anime series **Naruto**. Does that count? I never wear it for anything, though… I really wish I had the two-shades-of-maroon Doctor Who scarf from the later years of Tom Baker. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-threads-the-kind-you-wear/284740/10 "2005-01-15T09:30:39Z")
I have a couple of long, velvety shirts with interesting designs on them that my husband calls “Phoebe shirts”. ( **Friends** ) Other than that… hmm… this might barely count, but I have a black **MST3K** T-Shirt with Crow T Robot on it, saying, in huge letters on the bottom: “BITE ME!” Oh, and I like to dress like a boy sometimes, loosely inspired by _ **Utena** _. I once had long, long hair that nearly reached my tailbone, I dyed it a light, frosty pink and liked to wear dark blue business pant suits, or just dress tomboyishly… (is _that_ a word?) in baseball shirts or sports jerseys, and sometimes wear my husband’s clothes out, though they are quite obviously man’s clothes. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-threads-the-kind-you-wear/284740/11 "2005-01-15T12:31:03Z")
I have a set of Monkees Pajamas!!! Which makes me very cool. 🙂 P.S. My feet aren’t on backwards, _yours_ are! ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-threads-the-kind-you-wear/284740/12 "2005-01-15T17:40:51Z")
I wear a lot of retro-looking button-down shirts, much like Kramer wore on Seinfeld. Bowling shirts, Hawaiians, guayaberas, real vintage styles like that (plus two-tone black and white spectator shoes). I refer to this as my “hipster doofus” style, referring to when a girl called Kramer a hipster doofus. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-threads-the-kind-you-wear/284740/13 "2005-01-15T17:46:43Z")
Yet another Dr. Who Scarf. I made it myself after getting the official color pattern. But I don’t knit so crocheted, using the afghan stitch, which looks very much like knitting. Went to a convention back in the 80’s and made a few more before I went. A friend of a friend was in SCA, and they had a table in the vendor’s room. I paid them for some space on their table, and ended up making enough to pay for almost all my expenses at the con. ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-threads-the-kind-you-wear/284740/14 "2005-01-15T18:11:02Z")
Not clothing, but props. I spray painted my crow bar blue, as per Simpsons (Homer: Bart, I need to borrow your blue crow bar! Bart: Ahhh, good ol’ blue.) I painted a lantern green, and it’s in my comic room. Man, I’m a dork…