T-Shirts that will put an American Quilt to shame

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T-Shirts that will put an American Quilt to shame

By bigpumpkin | August 24, 2006

Let me tell you a little secret of The Hubs.

He still has T-shirts dating back to 1985 (the pile he got from Michigan, which I’ve mostly thrown out without his knowledge) and 1995 (the pile he got from New York City, which I’m planning to throw out soon - ahem…without his knowledge). These are favourites of his because they are THE most comfortable, he claims. They also make him feel, I suspect, closer to what he calls home - the US of A, where he’s spent a good part of his life getting an education, an then working. A whole twelve years to be exact.

But God, they look like shit!

You can tell when a T-Shirt belongs to your local museum:

Colour starts to fade (even white fades to off-white and black becomes grey)
Collars start to rip
T-Shirt shape no longer replicates a T-Shirt but a dinosaur
T-Shirt fabric is so limp, you can barely fold it - ever tried folding jellyfish?
You wear a particular T-Shirt 100 times a year for 5 consecutive years
T-Shirt hugs you like a second skin, only shrivelled up

So when The Hubs pleads with me not to touch his history with T-Shirts, I consider saving them up for a quilt. But what am I thinking?

Who the hell is going to have any use for a quilt that resemble the rags we use to wipe toddler potty training accidents off the floors?

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