<p>I remember the first day of senior year, all the kids who were lifeguards at the local pool showed up in the staff shirts they had made for fun. They said “Show Us Your Tanlines” and all were asked to change. Personally I didn’t find it overly inappropriate. Oddly enough, the principal’s kid frequently wore a shirt that said “Mountain Dew Me” (Mount and Do Me).</p>
<p>Our cross country team was banned from wearing the team shirts that said “Running All Over Your Grass”, which was pre-approved by the Athletic Director and then over turned by the principal. And when a few of us made it to the state meet that year, we got shirts that said “We’re bringing XC back” (ala Justin Timberlake) and those were banned as well.</p>
<p>There were so many questionables allowed, and many that weren’t as bad were banned. I never understood how it worked. </p>
<p>Should also note that at lunch the other day there was a table of orientation kids not too far away from me. One student was wearing a “.08 Pushing the Limits” shirt and the kid next to them was wearing a shirt that said “One person dies in an alcohol related crash every 5 minutes”. I just thought it was rather ironic.</p>
<p>I stared at that for a very long time. Finally with Vulture’s help (post #15) I got it. That’s kind of clever. It’s certainly cuter than the drinking and driving one.</p>
<p>Houses at my college sell t-shirts in order to raise money. This practice is totally endorsed by the school. The most famous t-shirt is “Where fun comes to die.” The most raunchy one is: “The University of Chicago: Where the only thing that goes down on your is your GPA.”</p>
<p>LTS and Corranged, I also didn’t get the tee shirt thing for a while.
Color me old fashioned but the Mount and Do Me, and the dog/bone thing is too much for me. 17 year old DD would not be wearing that to school</p>
<p>Cards, my XC daughter was team captain the last two years, and made shirts for the varsity girls to wear to State that said, you guessed it, “We’re Bringin XC Back”. The adults in power didn’t get it, and the girls have worn them for two years, no questions asked. I thought it was clever.</p>
<p>Haha! The kids who got banned are planning on next year already.They want to put “Seniors '09” on the front and on the back “That’s all we can say”. Basically I think these shirts are in good humor and to see how far they can push the boundaries.</p>
<p>We have a U of Chicago t-shirt with a gargoyle cracking up saying “Chicago - it’s funnier than you think.” and one from one of their libraries (John Crerer Library) that says “No skeptical trash or dirty French novels” which was how a bequest was to be used. Of course Smith College started the double entendre shirts many years ago with their centennial shirt: “A century of women on top.”</p>
<p>(I mistyped the UChicago shirt; it’s supposed to read “Where the only thing that goes down on you is your GPA.” It’s a bit beyond suggestive. It’s hilarious to watch students selling them during prospective student weekends. The parents love it and are all over the shirts, while their kids blush and start to look really embarrassed.)</p>
<p>Sue-thanks for the translation. I didn’t see it.
These remind me of when Abercrombie first came to our town and the jr high girls all wanted shirts from there. The Mom’s would have to carefully read and re-read each shirt to make sure that it was appropriate for a 13 yr old to wear.</p>
<p>Just to show my age yet again, H & I remember when Abercrombie & Fitch was a very staid, conservative store with similar style clothes. When they reinvented themselves, I was so disgusted by their ads, which, IMO, bordered on pornographic, I refused to let D even go in the store, never mind buy anything. Now she shops where she wants, but still doesn’t go there.</p>
<p>OP, are you talking about Eastview?!? I have a couple friends that go there, but their group made their own shirts!</p>
<p>And to everyone asking about the “black power” shirt…the school’s colors are blue and black. The shirt was black and had an outline of a clenched fist.</p>
<p>One of the girls in my daughter’s class designed an elegant royal crest and their shirts had the crest and Old English lettering - “Seniors 08” above the crest and “We reign” below it. A black background. The shirts turned out really cute.</p>
<p>When I was in HS our track team switched from a dirt to a rubber track. One of the shirts proposed (and shot down) was “We used to get dirty but now we use a rubber.”</p>
<p>We had the usual “Swimmers do it underwater” etc shirts.</p>
<p>Also a big controversy my senior year because our class color was green, and we voted for “Herbology” which was immediately shot down. But some kid printed off a bunch of shirts that said “Herbology - we’re not talking oregano” and on the back said “08 - we’re higher than you”. Significantly more people wore that one than the “approved” shirts that said “Sprite - Obey your senior.”</p>
<p>Also for another organization I was a part of, we had delegations, and one idea proposed to shirts was to have a big snickers bar with DELEGATION across the front and on the back say “Hungry? Grab a delegate.” It got a no vote when those in charge realized it implied that girls’ breasts should be grabbed when they wore the shirt.</p>
<p>My class (2007–oh, it seems so long ago!) managed to dupe the administration into allowing us to wear our unofficial t-shirts at school. Because there had been a fiasco with unofficial shirts being banned in the past, the students went to the administration and said, “Okay, here’s our design. Will you sign a written statement that you’ll let us wear them?” The administration signed, completely and totally missing the joke…</p>
<p>The shirts were Bond-themed, as were many '07 shirts, with “We Put the Hot in Shot” on the back. </p>
<p>Now, if nothing else, that’s pretty darn clever.</p>
<p>S1’s unofficial class t-shirt(2005) had '05 on the front. The back read
“Nights I can’t remember. Friends I’ll never forget”…a line from a Toby Keith song. </p>
<p>They wore them all year and nobody said a word. Our school is a large public with many “issues” so I guess they didn’t bother with policing t-shirts that the top kids in the class were wearing.</p>