Why aren't they just undershirts?
Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!
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Daisy Jane - Sep 15, 2010 10:09:04 am PDT #2761 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Volans - Sep 15, 2010 10:10:39 am PDT #2762 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Oh, I know! Isn't that what Luke wore to do his Jedi training on Dagobah? How about a "dago-tee."
Wait....
Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2010 10:11:05 am PDT #2763 of 30000
brillig
Cuz sometimes they're not under anything, I think. I've always thought of them as undershirts that are lucky enough to see the light of day, and hated men for being allowed to wander around in their underwear when women are looked at funny for just wearing their bras without a shirt.
Your def of hate may vary.
§ ita § - Sep 15, 2010 10:14:56 am PDT #2764 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why aren't they just undershirts?
How can you tell a T-shirt undershirt from an A-shirt undershirt?
I'd only use the term wife-beater if I was being deliberately and pointedly ironic, and it almost never worked, so I stopped. I felt the casual association between wife-beating and the people who traditionally wore the shirt was more than I was willing to make, so no skin off my nose. Find another term. Not tank top, because that doesn't imply the Y formation of the back straps. A-shirt isn't popularly known, but I'd rather explain myself every time than say wife-beater.
I do wear them. Was wearing them this weekend, in fact.
Daisy Jane - Sep 15, 2010 10:16:54 am PDT #2765 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
But underwear are still underwear, regardless.
Daisy Jane - Sep 15, 2010 10:17:29 am PDT #2766 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
The first is just a T-shirt.
Laga - Sep 15, 2010 10:17:35 am PDT #2767 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
a-shirts are the only undershirts I have.
Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2010 10:17:38 am PDT #2768 of 30000
brillig
But are they fun to wear?
Jessica - Sep 15, 2010 10:20:00 am PDT #2769 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The a-shirts I normally see worn outside are a heavier weight cotton than the ones meant as undershirts. I see it as the equivalent of a woman going outside in a sports bra - ultracasual, but not quite "in underwear."
§ ita § - Sep 15, 2010 10:21:13 am PDT #2770 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The first is just a T-shirt.
To you. Not to all the guys at my work wearing them as undershirts right now, though.
Underwear is just underwear, but no one is going to ask me "why not just say underwear instead of panties?" are they? Except I've been led to understand that underwear here doesn't include bras, so I don't know what that's about. If I want to specify panties, why wouldn't I?