I thought they were called muscle shirts before "wife beater" took precedence.
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Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2010 9:18:20 am PDT #2716 of 30000
brillig
Trudy Booth - Sep 15, 2010 9:19:18 am PDT #2717 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Before they were wife beaters, they were dago tees.
We cheerfully called them Guinea Tees when and where I was a kid -- until it occurred to me what in the HELL I was saying. And then I stopped because it was awful. And I pointed out to my friends that it was awful. And eventually that name seemed to go away.
I just don't see much of that reaction to "tramp stamp". (Well now I do :)
Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2010 9:19:42 am PDT #2718 of 30000
brillig
so I will shut the hell up and go the hell away
2 separate thoughts, and the second is never desirable.
Laga - Sep 15, 2010 9:20:34 am PDT #2719 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
The shirt in question is my preferred sleep-wear and I wish it had a better name. One time we had a sleep over and three of us gals were wearing them. A guy said, "when I die and go to heaven, all the women will wear those shirts."
Sean K - Sep 15, 2010 9:20:37 am PDT #2720 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I guess I got a little defensive about this because I do occasionally use the term, and when I do use it, I usually mean it to be derogatory, and I don't feel particularly apologetic for that.
Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2010 9:22:13 am PDT #2721 of 30000
brillig
I don't feel particularly apologetic for that.
Never apologize for using the phrase in a derogatory fashion. I think we're just analyzing why that particular phrase and usage.
Steph L. - Sep 15, 2010 9:23:10 am PDT #2722 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
sleeveless undershirt- doesn't really roll off the tongue, does it?
Bummer.
Sean K - Sep 15, 2010 9:23:32 am PDT #2723 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I think we're just analyzing why that particular phrase and usage.
Yeah, that's why I realized it wasn't really an attack on ME, and I didn't at all need to shut the hell up or go the hell away.
Laga - Sep 15, 2010 9:25:54 am PDT #2724 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I think wife beaters are usually white. I like the black ones. Remember in the 80s we wore two in day glo colors? Were we calling those dago tees?
meara - Sep 15, 2010 9:27:18 am PDT #2725 of 30000
Heh. Some of my friends call it a "butch cami", but I think for most groups that wouldn't grok the same. And I think Hanes sells it as...shoot, it uses the letter A but all I can think of is A-line and that's a skirt, not a shirt!