Store Flier Describes T-Shirts As 'Wife-Beaters'

ClickonDetroit ^ | February 22, 2006

[gridlock]

Try "sleeve-less T-shirts", for starters.

Well, that makes no sense. A T-shirt is called a "T-shirt" because when you lay it out flat, it is in the shape of a "T".

A similar sleeveless shirt would be more like an "I-shirt", don'tcha think?

[Mr. Jeeves]

The girls' versions are now called "boy beaters" and just about every catalog uses that term to describe them. What's the issue, again? ;)

[gridlock]

Oops! Great minds think alike.

Apparently mediocre minds as well...

[trisham]

If you're asking me if he would have been perfectly within his rights to allow the ad to run like that the answer is yes. Just as the group who complained about the ad were well within their rights to do so. They voiced a complaint and he agreed and retracted. I don't see a Freedom of Speech issue here.

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Exactly right. Unfortunately, the msm won't let it die.

[Rodney King]

Store Flier Describes T-Shirts As 'Wife-Beaters'

So do most people. That is what they are called.

[TC Rider]

No kidding? I'm almost 50 and have never heard them called that.

I'm 53 and I only know because my nephews tipped me off 8 or 10 years ago.

[MEGoody]

It was a dumb thing to do but nothing to get hysterical about.

They apologized, lets move on.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

[Unkosified]

That makes sense in an odd, trailer park, Budweiser, Saturday night crazies are out kind of way. :)

[TXnMA]

Here, in the "backwards backwoods" of East Texas, we call them, "undershirts" (as opposed to "tee shirts" which may be worn on the outside).

When worn on the outside, we call them "tank tops" or, simply, "cheap".

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BTW & FWIW, the "Building 19" stores, of which there are many (distingushed by fractional numbers -- as in "Building 19-3/4") are, indeed, "zany" places. They are disorganized "clutter-mazes" that dispose of all sorts of overstocked goods. Savvy folks never go there expecting to find something in particular -- they go to see what "bargains" they can "unearth"...

[Responsibility2nd]

I think you nailed it. I've always heard these were called wife beaters as a result of Stanley Kowalski.

"STELLLLAAAAAAA!!"

[CzarNicky]

Try "sleeve-less T-shirts", for starters.

It's the sleeves that make 'em "T" shirts, right?

If they're sleeve-less, shouldn't we call 'em "I-shirts" instead?

I believe the technical term for them is A-shirts. Ever since COPS came out I have heard them called wife beaters prior to that tank tops.

[ctdonath2]

You win!

[Plutarch]

What do 54,000 abused woman every year have in common?

They just don't LISTEN.