I’ve seen dickies for sale too! I’d never seen them in my life before, but now they’re back.
I do this all the time! I don’t really like my arms, so that’s a big part of it. Also, most of my t-shirts are black; I’ll use an undershirt (which is often a turtleneck) to break things up a bit, and add some color to the mix. Plus, it keeps me warm :).
As soon as I posted this I started laughing to (at?) myself because I had the very same thought. For the record, the kids find me quite groovy.
I love(d) Kurt but his dress is a disaster.
Wesley Clark please please please tell me you’re kidding about the headbands.
I was at a concert this weekend (NIN!) \m/ and I was quite pleased to see this look coming back into fashion. It’s very comfortable, and you can still show off your neato t-shirts in winter. As I’m moving to the pacific northwest this summer, I plan on dressing ‘grunge’ pretty much every day. I like to live in the last century. Maybe I can get a fashion revival going.
I wear the combo frequently, but moreso when I do field work (which is just about every day nowadays).
My reasons? Because I desire covered arms when I’m working under the sun, but a lot of my long-sleeved t-shirts are either real skimpy (because they are actually one of those sheer pajama tops) or they don’t cover my back/front as completely as I wish they did (would it kill manufacturers to make shirts for women that don’t stop at your belly button?) An “over” shirt rectifies both of these problems. Also, my arms tend to get very dirty after a long day’s of work, while everything else is relatively clean. This means I can throw the long-sleeve shirt in the laundry bin but re-wear the short-sleeved t-shirt a couple more times (especially since the “under” shirt soaks up any sweat). I hate doing laundry, so this is a big help.
Like even sven, I also like the color combinations you can create. Today it was an orange short-sleeve over a light blue long-sleeve. Sometimes it’s purple or blue over gray or yellow. My coworkers always talk about how cool my field wardrobe is, and I’m sure the fishes and alligators I bump into agree.
The beauty of this is that it gives you the flexibility to change to just the short-sleeve t-shirt if you get too hot, while giving you the chance to strip down and show off your ripped abs in the process.
Preppy kids are now wearing (and I wish I were making this up, but I am not) t-shirts over collared semi-dress shirts.
A guy in my class had a Princeton (University) short-sleeved t on over a longsleeved, collared, button-up shirt.
And he’s not the only one.
T-shirt beneath longsleeve, I can see. I wear it myself. But this… you must be kidding me.
And Megyn, please, please tell me you were playing an out-of-touch oldster as a character in your post. “Smells like teen-age spirit?” :dubious:
I purchased a long sleeve white tee this winter because it was only 9 dollars and it allows me to wear my huge tee shirt collection in the winter. And since I wear both fitted, it looks sort of cute, I guess. It’s cold here. This look can look messy but if done right I like it. Well as long as the two shirts match.
Sometimes the succeeding generation is just as bemused. A thing I never understood, but used to see aroun 1970, was wearing running shorts outside your sweatpants.
Because the bottom shirt’s see-through. I do it all the time.
Yeah, I do that. I can’t really explain why. Maybe it has the benefit of dressing down the collared shirt and dressing up the t-shirt? Finding a half way point, you know? It’s a bit classier than the standard t-shirt over long sleeves look, but it’s still casual. A collared shirt is a bit formal by itself.
Oh, also, I’m really skinny, and if I wear a t-shirt or a sweater over a semi-dress shirt it makes it look a bit less like a tent. A sweater is more sensible, of course, but sometimes its not that cold.
BINGO!!!
This look is a throwback to 90s frat-boy grunge culture (which is a throwback to 70s culture). The emphasis is on your Nirvana or Delta Tau Delta T-shirt. The plain long sleeve waffle-T underneath is just there to provide added warmth. It also has the benefit of hanging on you better as it doesn’t make you look like you stuffed your shirt with T-shirts to look bigger.
A preppy variation is to wear a long sleave T under a polo shirt - Usually Ralph Lauran, A&F or Lacoste.
I do this all the time. I like my T-shirts but it is too cold to wear them alone right now. Plus in a solid-colored long sleeved T-shirt I look dumpy. But with the short-sleeved shirt over it I just look slimmer. A little *trompe l’oeil * or something.
Oh, I’m 34 and never did this as a teen; only the very coolest boys in my high school did and I was neither cool nor a boy. Still am neither now that I mention it…
Let’s wear our underwear over our pants. I Just Like the Look.
I have noticed that wearing more clothes at the same time is a general trend from the last 10 years. When I started out buying clothes, you’d wear one top (blouse, shirt, sweater), and one bottom (skirt, trouser). Simple, clear. If you wanted to be chic you’d wear something with a collar under the top.
Nowadays you’re expected to layer yourself silly. If you don’t wear at least three matching tank-tops and two intricate layered semi-transparent vests/shirts on top of those, all at the same time, you’re dressing square.
From under my tinfoil hat I say: it’s all a conspiracy to make us buy more clothes. :mad:
I do this for work. Our good zoo shirts, the ones we wear for presentations, are polo style. In the winter they’re just too cold, especially if you’re standing in a fridgid gym or carting cages in and out of buildings. I wear a plain black longsleeved tee under the light tan zoo shirt. It’s just practical.
you mean like superheroes?
I think this look is good because you can make any t-shirt you have suitable for colder weather just by wearing a plain white long-sleeve shirt underneath it. The colors don’t clash, and if you have a nice t-shirt that you don’t want to stop wearing just because it’s a little colder, you can just do this.
I actually own a T-shirt that came with long white sleeves sewn underneath the sleeves and a small white collar sewn underneath the T-shirt’s collar (basically so it looks like you have a long-sleeve shirt on underneath, but you only have the sleeves.) This gives you the benefit of the long sleeves without the possible discomfort of another shirt shifting around underneath, or unneccesary added warmth. It’s one of my favorite shirts - here’s a picture of me wearing it.
There are a lot of these kinds of shirts that you can buy at The Buckle or PacSun - they realized that a lot of people combine long and short sleeved shirts, so they removed a step and just made T-shirts with long sleeves underneath. The thing is, I always roll up the sleeves.
“Revival” would imply that the style had ever been dead here.