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!
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meara - Sep 15, 2010 9:27:18 am PDT #2725 of 30000
Frankenbuddha - Sep 15, 2010 9:28:01 am PDT #2726 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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!
Y-shirt? As opposed to T?
Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2010 9:28:25 am PDT #2727 of 30000
brillig
sleeveless undershirt- doesn't really roll off the tongue, does it?
Too much lint to work well.
edit: I actually enjoy seeing a guy with good shoulders wearing one of these.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 15, 2010 9:29:04 am PDT #2728 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Too much lint to work well.
Gives a whole new meaning to "cottonmouth".
Steph L. - Sep 15, 2010 9:29:12 am PDT #2729 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I think wife beaters are usually white. I like the black ones.
So what are they called? Just curious.
Remember in the 80s we wore two in day glo colors? Were we calling those dago tees?
Tank tops.
ChiKat - Sep 15, 2010 9:29:46 am PDT #2730 of 30000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
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!
They call it A-shirt. I call them tanks.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 15, 2010 9:30:09 am PDT #2731 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Tank tops.
That's what I've always called them, regardless of color. I'm not sure if it's a military thing.
Trudy Booth - Sep 15, 2010 9:32:45 am PDT #2732 of 30000
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Tank tops were worn in swimming tanks, irrc, not driving around and shooting tanks. A Shirts meant "athletic".
This is all somewhere on Wikipedia.
Steph L. - Sep 15, 2010 9:34:07 am PDT #2733 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I actually enjoy seeing a guy with good shoulders wearing one of these.
Tony Stark, baby.
And, uh, okay, I'm a little biased.
Sean K - Sep 15, 2010 9:34:53 am PDT #2734 of 30000
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I don't remember what I used to call them, but I do remember the double day glo look. I also like the black-sleeveless-over-gray-tee look they used on BSG. And I see plenty of men who wear them as undershirts, at which point I think of them as "undershirts."
But frankly, I agree with laga that it's probably the term I'm most likely to think of when thinking of the garment as a garment, and I don't really have a problem with that either. I don't beat my SO when I have one, I don't think beating one's SO is funny, and I try very hard not to let any prejudices I may have about a shirt interfere with my ability to judge a person as an individual. So since I feel pretty secure with myself in regards to that, I think I'm going to continue to feel secure in my usage of the term "wife beater."
And yeah, I'd say that the idea of women in wife beaters is pretty hot.