Date my Mefi Shirt!
August 13, 2024 8:51 PM Subscribe
(not like a date date, but a when did I get this date.)
I bought this shirt here, a long time ago.
It has never, ever fit. Like, not even close. I don't know if I was being aspirational when I ordered it, or I thought a Royal Apparel Large was like a misses' Large (it is not. It's a very small Large.)
But it fits now! It has survived many culls because to be honest, I didn't want to send it to a local thrift where the chances of someone who knew what it meant would find it were pretty small. So I've kept it for (??) years, not really thinking about it much. Occasionally it would move to another bag, box or bin with my other too-small clothes. But right now, I don't really have any :-)
So if you know when it is from, let me know. It might be the longest I've held onto something that was never even close to fitting, and some random period of time later, it very surprisingly, did.
It has never, ever fit. Like, not even close. I don't know if I was being aspirational when I ordered it, or I thought a Royal Apparel Large was like a misses' Large (it is not. It's a very small Large.)
But it fits now! It has survived many culls because to be honest, I didn't want to send it to a local thrift where the chances of someone who knew what it meant would find it were pretty small. So I've kept it for (??) years, not really thinking about it much. Occasionally it would move to another bag, box or bin with my other too-small clothes. But right now, I don't really have any :-)
So if you know when it is from, let me know. It might be the longest I've held onto something that was never even close to fitting, and some random period of time later, it very surprisingly, did.
Response by poster: Oh wow - this shirt is old! Thank you ActingTheGoat!!
posted by 41swans at 9:28 PM on August 13 [1 favorite]
posted by 41swans at 9:28 PM on August 13 [1 favorite]
Was the "If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold" shirt the same vintage? It feels like I've had it about fifteen years (which for me is young, I regularly wear shirts I acquired in the mid-1980s)
posted by Hogshead at 4:34 AM on August 14 [1 favorite]
posted by Hogshead at 4:34 AM on August 14 [1 favorite]
The blue_beetle, "If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold" shirts were 2012.
Professional white background shirts predate the internet.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 8:24 AM on August 14 [2 favorites]
Professional white background shirts predate the internet.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 8:24 AM on August 14 [2 favorites]
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posted by ActingTheGoat at 9:05 PM on August 13 [2 favorites]