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T-shirt Of The Day
9:50 AM, Wednesday, 24 May, 2006
Fashion in Papua New Guinea is an amazing thing. Most women wear 'meri blouses', which are fantastic brightly coloured mu-mu type things (I haven't got one yet but it's on the way, so photos of me will be coming soon!). There aren't many stores that sell new clothes, but the ones that do have wonderful names such as 'Male Arrogance' and 'Tramps'.
The main source of clothing here comes from giant second-hand stores, stocked with used clothing from Australia. This is quite fun for two reasons: firstly, there are great clothes in there for cheap prices and second, because I have seen some of the most amazing and obscure T-shirts ever to have left the shores of Australia.
I have seen an amazing selection: everything from 'Telstra' to 'The Great Victorian Bike Ride'. So I am now introducing a 'T-shirt Of The Day' to my blog, in which I will discuss the relative merits of the various t-shirts that I
have seen in my travels.
CLAUSE 1: Because of the difficulties of dial-up and the general rudeness of saying, 'Hey, can I take a photo of your whacky t-shirt?', I won't put up pictures. I'll leave that to your imagination.
CLAUSE 2: I am, of course, anticipating that I will be too busy/bored/lazy/sleepy/hungry to do this every day, but 'T-shirt Of The Day' sounds better than 'Fantastic T-shirt That I Saw One Random Day'.
Today's T-shirt Of The Day was one of a theme that I remember well from the nineties - The X Files. This t-shirt not only had the great big X in the middle of it, but it also had Mulder and Scully in all of their deep and meaningful glory - those looks that they gave were certainly full of foreboding. What's more is that it was a t-shirt from the earlier days, before Scully went all sexy, and when they weren't afraid to involve a bit of slime/gore in the show. I could tell from the hair. All in all, this was a fantastic t-shirt and I was excited to spot it. Today's 'T-shirt Of The Day' receives a 7/10 in the category 'reliving the nineties'.
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Comments
My favourite sighted in Alotau was "Jesus is the Only Cure to AIDS You'll Ever Need...". But someone else saw a "Poms are Poofs" one that would have been priceless (shame I can't claim that one!)
Posted by: Tori | May 24, 2006 11:58 AM
I believe that the phrase "I have seen some of the most amazing and obscure T-shirts ever to have left the shores of Australia" should actually be "I have seen some of the most amazing and obscure T-shirts that should never have left the shores of Australia".
Freaking hilarious.
The Great Victorian Bike Ride is very obscure. Nice spotting.
And please tell me you bought something from Tramps. Just because you could.
Tramp.
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| May 24, 2006 5:18 PM