Audience Participation Weekend
So, this one has a visual component. Yesterday, I’m over at Karol’s house playing cards and pretending to be her on IM. I am wearing a sweatshirt and sweatpants. When her boyfriend comes home he looks at me wearing this outfit: 
and he says “Huh. You’re unemployed, so you’ve just decided to stop trying altogether?”
Earlier in the day Karol herself tried to take my sweatshirt off, despite my numerous ‘I don’t think of you that way’ protestations.
“It’s hot take off the sweatshirt.”
“Um…no matter how hot it is I am not walking around in my underwear.”
“You don’t have a shirt on under that? What is wrong with you?”
“Nobody wears shirts under a sweatshirt — it’s the shirt. What’s wrong with you?”
And thusly we come to the question of the weekend — who wears shirts under a shirt?
May 16th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Yes, you have stopped trying.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
that wasn’t the question, casca. but thanks. grr
May 16th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Everyone. Idiot.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Of course you wear shirts under shirts. Cuts down on laundry. Much easier/cheaper to wash a basket of thin t-shirts than a basket of sweatshirts. Also, with the way I sweat all my outershirts would have big ol’ nasty yellow pit stains if I didn’t wear shirts underneath. Besides, a sweatshirt is more like a sweater than a shirt. And, as the argument made clear, if you wear a thin shirt under your sweatshirt you can deal with changes in temperature.
Karol 1, Dawn 0
May 16th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Dude. No shirt under a sweatshirt is gross and weird.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Ken is correct: A sweatshirt is more like a sweater than a shirt. If I’m wearing a sweatshirt, there’s probably a button-down shirt underneath it, or at least a T-shirt. The only exception might be wearing sweats as pajamas on a cold night.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Ken is correct
Actually, Michael, I think what you meant to say is “Karol is correct”.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Also, flashers don’t wear anything under their overcoat. You have to stop being so literal.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Hello,
Person you’ve never met before nor heard from here. I feel this is an important enough issue to reveal myself as someone who reads your blog daily- shirt under sweatshirt is. a. must. Do you know how much stink and sweat can burrow its way into sweatshirt material never to be clean again? Plus, if you’re sweaty, the sweat gets all over the shirt and due to the looseness of the fit (key to any good sweatshirt) then gets all over the rest of your body! You can tell I’ve given this matter a lot of thought.
May 16th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
The IC says “Always wear an undershirt under a sweater or sweatshirt” and get a job already fool
May 16th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Bare is always far more sensual. Eat the laundry costs. If you had any stones, you’d have flopped the boys.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Jackie, are you Phill’s Jackie?
May 17th, 2008 at 12:26 am
You with the face, stop harassing my commenters.
May 17th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Longtime reader. First time poster. Employed lawyers.
May 17th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
I think it’s a personal choice. Besides, who are you nasty people trying to get away with not washing your sweatshirts after multiple wearings?
May 17th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Ah Pear, we’ve finally converged. Make mine without softener.
May 18th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Your question “who wears shirts under a shirt” caused me to rethink my entire philosophy of life.