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    Rails against Big Carrot JohnnyEgo's Avatar
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    Default Dressed like a first-grader.

    I don't spend a lot of time contemplating clothing choices in day-to-day life. 90% of my work is spent in a uniform that makes me look like a Target employee, and the other 10% is spent in a suit. Around town, I tend towards cargo pants and a button-down shirt that conceals my gun/gut. My t-shirts are mostly Shot Show promo items from 2005-2010. The last t-shirt I actually bought with my own money was a COAR shirt. Today, however, as I was putting away laundry, I realized half of my t-shirts are Super Hero shirts now.

    I'm talking Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Flash, etc... In fact, I am wearing a Superman shirt as I type. I was never that big a fan of the superhero genre; I read comic books as a kid, but it was all GI Joe. Aside from 1989 Michael Keaton Batman, I don't recall being particularly pumped for a superhero movie or TV show of any kind. I've watched them when they have come on the television, and I saw the first Ironman in an actual theater, but I haven't gone out of my way to identify with the Super Hero genre. And yet, I have the whole Justice League in my shirt drawer.

    I realize what has happened is that when my wife buys a shirt for my son, she thinks it is funny or cute for us to match, so she buys the same shirt for me. I also realize the path this is headed down, where I will soon be the Dad at the roller-rink rocking the bright yellow Pokemon t-shirt despite being over 40 and believing that Pokemon is just animated cock fighting for children. Is the desire to dress people alike just inherent in the female genome? And if so, why not choose to dress my son like an old man?

    I'm tempted to replenish the rag stock in my gun cleaning box in a passive-aggressive counter-strike, but then I might not get my afternoon juice box and fruit roll-up.
    Math is tough. Let's go shopping!

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    Most of my clothes come from the charity thrift stores. Admittedly conservative clothes. I do have one set of Sesame Street boxers. Don't feel alone. All my other clothes are military uniforms. Sometimes I just wear parts of the uniforms. I have yet to be confronted on stolen valor.Unfortunately I have no Super Hero t-shirts. Is it nap time yet?
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    I would draw the line at pokemon.

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    I don't normally wear superhero stuff, but for Christmas, my kids gave me a Captain America shirt that said "World's Greatest Dad". Now THAT I wear all the time when I'm not dressing for work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mattiooo View Post
    I don't normally wear superhero stuff, but for Christmas, my kids gave me a Captain America shirt that said "World's Greatest Dad". Now THAT I wear all the time when I'm not dressing for work.
    Mine gave me a Grinch t shirt to wear for Xmas and I do...

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    We all get stuck in a rut ... I've noticed (or rather my wife has noticed) that about all I seem to wear these days are plaid (90% of them western cut) short sleeve shirts untucked with a color coordinated t-shirt under it. For pants, 70% of the time jeans, 20% of the time cargo shorts (yes, year round) and 10% of the time khakis/cargo pants. Apparently I'm supposed to "do something" about this now (so I've added a couple solid Dickie's work shirts to the rotation ).

    While most of my tees are printed, none of them are cartoon or superhero.

    I need to order one of these
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    My wife has made a concerted decades-long effort to rid my wardrobe of any shirts that feature a logo of any kind - and success is now within reach. It's fair to say she's far more tasteful in her style of attire than I am.

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    My wife knows better. Of course we don't have kids (yet), so that could change. Most of my wardrobe is polos, 5.11 pants, and either Grunt Style or Nine Line Apparel. I do have a few shirts I got from charity events, like the MC-1 Foundation Honor Run I do every year.
    "There is no news in the truth, and no truth in the news."
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    Have you tried a Magpul mega blend t?

    Charcoal seems to be better than light gray.

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    I not a fan of the matching shirts, however my niece (30 years old) came to CO and we did a trip to Yellowstone. She got us Bob's wife, bob's son ( times 2), bob's niece and bob's son's girlfriend shirts. Of course I wore the Bob shirt with protest as i got the "wear it or else" look from "Bob's wife".

    As much as I hate to admit it we had a great time with the shirts. I had several people come up to me with kind comments, telling us how nice the family was and how great the kids were. One lady noted that they had been seeing the shirts around the park that day and came over to introduce herself so that she could "meet Bob".

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