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Call me when you get colorful, I'll buy.
I can certainly understand, variety is the spice of life, but for me all I buy is black T-shirts because of bowling. They put so much oil on the lanes these days that any color shirt worn other than black gets a stain that doesn't come out. With a black shirt, they oil is still there, but you never see it. I might have to pick up a few of these. My local Arena Football team has been rather stingy with the black T-shirts the past couple years and I need something new other than WWE shirts. LOL
Damn. No wonder my old group liked going to Cons and playing a game called "count the geeks in black shirts". Guess we all have no personality besides a bunch of white words on a black shirt. Sad.
Call me when you get colorful, I'll buy.FH
The first time I went to GenCon (1992), my brother and I were wandering in the dealers' hall. I looked down at a table, and looked up, and my brother was gone.
Now, when I'm looking for someone in a crowd, I try to pick a feature to look for. My first thought was "he's wearing a black T-shirt." Then I realized that that was everybody in the room. So I looked for beards and glasses. And slightly overweight. I eventually narrowed my search parameters to about 2/3 of the people there. I found him 3 hours later when I left the hall to get lunch.
I don't think I've worn a black T-shirt since.
It's funny, in all my time in this industry, I have tried multiple times to make t-shirts that aren't black, because I really don't like wearing black t-shirts myself. And everytime that I did this, the t-shirt sold like crap and the black t-shirts outsold the colored ones 5 to 1. We even once make our first White Wolf t-shirts in 6 colors, and black would always sell out by day 1 of the convention, even though we brought 3 times as many in black. So I have to conclude that black t-shirts are what gamers want.
-Lisa
It's funny, in all my time in this industry, I have tried multiple times to make t-shirts that aren't black, because I really don't like wearing black t-shirts myself. And everytime that I did this, the t-shirt sold like crap and the black t-shirts outsold the colored ones 5 to 1. We even once make our first White Wolf t-shirts in 6 colors, and black would always sell out by day 1 of the convention, even though we brought 3 times as many in black. So I have to conclude that black t-shirts are what gamers want.
-Lisa
I would say that my experience supports your conclusion. Bear in mind that Fakey and I are kilt-wearing fashion rebels.
I should probably avoid going on away missions, since I'm wearing a Red Shirt (Chupathingy specifically).
Me too... but my shirt has the same picture as my Avatar. This may qualify for the geek moment thread.
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I too am a gamer who tends to wear black t-shirts...a lot. Now this isn't because of being sterotypical, or because black is the kewlest colour ever. No, the reason I wear black (t-shirts, long sleeves, oxford, etc) is because a black shirt with a nice pair (non-baggy) jeans, or slacks work for any situation. You will look both casual, and sophisticated at the same time.
Other then black shirts, I also love brown t-shirts with phrases. Though to wear a brown shirt I must switch my black belt with silver buckle and black van's sneakers for my brown belt with silver & leather buckle and my brown converse sneakers. Go figure.
Oh, and sadly Paizo. I don't buy shirts like this. Years ago sure, but now that I'm older I don't find much fun in wearing these kinds of shirts. Still though, fun shirt.
I would say that my experience supports your conclusion. Bear in mind that Fakey and I are kilt-wearing fashion rebels.
I would say that my experience supports your conclusion. Bear in mind that Fakey and I are kilt-wearing fashion rebels.I'm down with that.
MY EYES!!! Oyyy GODDDSSSS, MY EYES!!!
I'm with you guys. A collared polo type shirt with some embroidered Cthulhu/D&D message would be perfect! I can only wear T-shirts on weekends, but if you had one with a collar, I could get away with wearing it to work...
Oh...Ties would be good, too!
I'll second this notion! Gamer polos would rock, especially if they were done innocuously. Replace the little 'Polo' horse on the left breast with a little glyph or rune of some persuasion, perhaps even a tiny Cthulhu head or something.
It's funny, in all my time in this industry, I have tried multiple times to make t-shirts that aren't black, because I really don't like wearing black t-shirts myself. And everytime that I did this, the t-shirt sold like crap and the black t-shirts outsold the colored ones 5 to 1. We even once make our first White Wolf t-shirts in 6 colors, and black would always sell out by day 1 of the convention, even though we brought 3 times as many in black. So I have to conclude that black t-shirts are what gamers want.
-Lisa
As a theater tech (and Mr. Logue can probably back me up on this), over half my t-shirt collection is black, and I'm always on the lookout for more black t-shirts. Particularly if they have no large, readable, noticable designs on them. Over half my black shirts have nothing on them, or only a small design on the left breast, easily covered for the duration of a performance with a strip of black gaff tape.
I wonder what the cross section is between gamers and theater people is?