This week’s teapot tempest began when a grown adult attacked a shirt.
I saw this shirt three times on my ten-minute walk to retrieve lunch
鈥� Nick Morrow (@NRMorrow)
Fair. It has to be weird, even annoying to see so many dudes wearing the same thing when you’re grabbing takeout from Fogo de Ch茫o or wherever.聽It’s understandable, too:
Nick Morrow’s hot fashion take has since gone viral, and it hasn’t gone over well with others on Twitter, a website renowned for its friendly discourse about things that really matter.
Legions of straight men have quote tweeted the original tweet with 鈥淚 feel attacked.鈥� The fact that all the reactions to this are carbon copies of each other is just… *chefs kiss*
鈥� Nick Morrow (@NRMorrow)
And because it’s more fun to make fun, several Twitterati jackals have sided with Morrow and dogpiled onto the poor little shirt. For instance …
Nothing says 鈥淚 give up鈥� more than a gingham shirt.
鈥� Sanho Tree (@SanhoTree)
This shirt has been a DC drinking game for like 5+ years. If you see one at the bar you gotta call gingham and everyone drinks. If someone calls gingham but it鈥檚 a repeat, they drink.
鈥� dont wanna 🐣🌷 (@dontwannatoday)
this shirt just started a podcast with the exact same shirt but in red
鈥� David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN)
… and so on. Because conformity is terrible and we are a nation of proud individuals and should dress like we’re going to the Met Gala, I guess.
But fashion conformity is an inevitability, no?
Unless you regularly wear, I don’t know, a homemade suit that looks like a taco, how you clothe yourself means choosing from a finite number of designs, which to some degree conform to an aesthetic .
In other words: Even if you’re striving to dress like an original, someone’s probably beaten you to it.
So, if you own that gingham guy, stand tall, brother. Sure, it looks like a repurposed tablecloth that was ripped off a picnic table, and coordinating it with a patterned tie is an iffy proposition, but you do you, bro.
Or, in the words of Luis Guzm谩n in “Boogie Nights” …
EDITOR’S DISCLAIMER: The views expressed here are not necessarily those of 草莓传媒 草莓传媒 or Hubbard Broadcasting. (It’s also fair to point out that Jack Pointer still needs help dressing himself.)聽
