Saturday, September 1, 2012

T-shirts

We all have them.  And we all have dirty little secrets pertaining to our t-shirts.  I've been folding t-shirts for hours and thought... why not share my secrets.

Logistics
  • I roll my t-shirts instead of folding them and store them in a drawers separated as follows - white shirts, grey shirts, all other colors, long sleeve t-shirts.  I almost have enough navy shirts to warrant an independent drawer.
  • I started rolling my shirts about 2 years ago for several reasons.  First, obviously, it saves space.  Moving to NYC, I became very space conscious and picked up numerous habits relating to.  Second, I can't fold for shit.  Rolling minimizes wrinkles.  Finally, I roll my clothes when packing for travel; this saves a step.
  • I have way too many t-shirts.  We all do, moving on.
Practice
  • I have t-shirts of all colors and they serve 3 purposes, actually 4.  I wear them solo, but not often, and, when I do, I prefer to wear statement shirts.  I wear them under other shirts.  I wear white and grey under anything (even grey when it's barely appropriate) and try to coordinate what I wear the other colors under.  I wear t-shirts to workout.  Long-sleeve t-shirts are clutch for early spring and late fall running.  I also love to wear long-sleeve t-shirts under athletic vests.  Finally, I have on several occasions used t-shirts in lieu of newspaper for packing glasses and plates while moving.
  • Once a t-shirt becomes old, I relegate it to sleeping-shirt status.  Once the shirt hits sleeping-shirt status, it gets its own drawer.  Sleeping shirts also double as workout shirts.  I usually sleep in a shirt for a few nights, then work out in it.  If I am heading to play sports with a friend, I'll grab a fresh old shirt.
  • There are 3 tiers of old shirt.  Sleep and then workout.  Sleep when having company and/or wear to a tennis date.  Sleep and work up the courage to throw away.  I generally throw these 3rd-tier shirts away when I am moving, having a cleaning fit or trying to avoid overloading the washing machine.  I also wear a shirt one last time before tossing it.  I hardly ever toss clean shirts (unless packing for a move).
  • There are some t-shirts I covet and never wear.  I am not sure how/why this happens, but I save these shirts for occasions that never come.  Examining the shirts I choose to covet, I can draw no sound conclusions as to why.  Sometimes they are sporting-team related.  Sometimes I get the shirt as part of a class project and other times they are shirts I pick up being a tourist.  One says "Amsterdam Drinking Team" another says "Harrah's London".  Finally, some are gifts that I don't really like, but can't seem to part with.  I can honestly say there is one shirt in my covet collection that I've had since 1996 and another since 1997.  
  • Lastly, I wear "large."  I switched from extra-large to large several years ago.  There are several reasons for this:  (1) lost the baby fat, (2) I wanted shirts that fit better - one day I noticed I was swimming in extra large, (3) I stopped tucking my shirt in... probably leading to the realization in #2, and (4) large shirts fit better under my polos.  It is so tacky when the shirt sleeves hang out.  I am still guilty of this from time to time.
Thanks for reading this utter nonsense.  I supposed I should return to rolling my shirts.

2 Comments:

Blogger Robyn said...

this is my favorite type of entry. true story!

September 2, 2012 at 8:12:00 AM PDT  
Blogger cstyle said...

thank you. to me it is just a late-night brain dump

September 6, 2012 at 8:24:00 PM PDT  

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