label: ched
type: 50%/50%
era: 1982
where found: vestal dollar store, vestal, ny
type: 50%/50%
era: 1982
where found: vestal dollar store, vestal, ny
well another post, another ched shirt. i found this particular one at a very cool dollar store in vestal, ny that took up shop inside an abandoned agway. if i remember correct, the place was called - what else - the "vestal dollar store". now what made the vestal dollar store one of my favorites was that the distributors for this place seemed to stop shipping goods in 1991. things like neon sippy cups and dominique wilkins school folders were all the rage here. i really loved this store and would love to go back sometime soon. that is if it's still open.
anyway, in the back left corner of this store was an old clothing rack and box below it filled with random t-shirts. the funny thing about this is that all the shirts fit into three categories: a) shirts about firefighters, b) shirts about wildwood, new jersey, or c) shirts about firefighters in wildwood, new jersey. this one obviously takes choice "c".
my roomate was quick to point out the extra space between the words "new" and "jersey". i never noticed it at first, but now it's all i can focus on when i look at the shirt. i first thought that it was for aesthetic reasons - to even the spacing of the words with the illustration, y'know? but taking a closer look, the bottom left of the new jersey illustration stretches almost an inch beyond the beginning of the word "new".
is this a design fail? or did we both miss the boat on something here?
oh ... shirt theory!
anyway, in the back left corner of this store was an old clothing rack and box below it filled with random t-shirts. the funny thing about this is that all the shirts fit into three categories: a) shirts about firefighters, b) shirts about wildwood, new jersey, or c) shirts about firefighters in wildwood, new jersey. this one obviously takes choice "c".
my roomate was quick to point out the extra space between the words "new" and "jersey". i never noticed it at first, but now it's all i can focus on when i look at the shirt. i first thought that it was for aesthetic reasons - to even the spacing of the words with the illustration, y'know? but taking a closer look, the bottom left of the new jersey illustration stretches almost an inch beyond the beginning of the word "new".
is this a design fail? or did we both miss the boat on something here?
oh ... shirt theory!
scan of the label:
