<p>Oh, JeepMOM, don’t get me wrong: I would wear an LA Dodgers hat if I were actually inclined to do so. Unfortunately, I look awful in baseball caps. The Yankees are no friends of mine, to be sure.</p>
<p>^^^ ooo that is good to hear :D</p>
<p>The community college in Dayton is called Sinclair Community College. With over 24,000 students (not including branch campuses), it is one of the largest community colleges in the country. And one of the least expensive.
Just so you know–wear the shirt with pride.</p>
<p>I do have one (state u) college sweatshirt, given to me by my sis (fellow alum). It is so old that it has a picture of the long-retired politically incorrect mascot. I wore it to WalMart yesterday. (Yay to shirts–they generally won’t let me in WalMart without one. . .)</p>
<p>For many years a super heavy “official” Minnesota Vikings sweatshirt has been one of my favorites. Never been to MN. Not a fan. Purple is not my color. I acquired this from the “unclaimed laundry” in an apartment building in St. Louis–a neighbor’s ex girlfriend left it. My only hesitation in wearing it over the years (besides not looking that good in purple) where I live (in the south) is never knowing if the Vikings were having a losing season that year.</p>
<p>I never assume that anyone wearing fan gear has any connection with a school/team.</p>
<p>(i’m not sure if anyone has already said this, but…) colleges make t-shirts because they want people to buy/wear them-either way, the colleges make money from distributing their merchandise. since these shirts are made to be purchased/worn, i don’t see what the problem is…</p>
<p>Let’s face it - there are no “rules” re: wearing college branded clothing. Likewise, there is no accepted “norm.”</p>
<p>It’s up to the individual whether or not they choose to wear it. Frankly, I don’t care why a person chooses to wear a particular college’s sweatshirt. I just have my own personal rule as to what I wear and don’t wear. I presume that everyone else does likewise.</p>
<p>I think the dead horse has been thoroughly beaten, but again, that is up to each individual poster.</p>
<p>I recall back in the 80s and early 90s it became all the rage in Europe and Asia for young people to wear US college shirts. But I knew immediately that some of them were bogus knock-offs when I traveled to Japan and saw a place selling UCLA T-shirts that were in USC’s school colors!</p>
<p>Since this refuses to die, I’ll add the following:</p>
<p>At regional camps and competitions, high school track and XC athletes have been trading shirts. I don’t know when or where this started, but its pretty cool. In November, my D came home with shirts from Kodiak Alaska, and Flathead Montana, the two “most wanted”. Last summer she went to a Princeton camp and brought back a NE regionals (high school) shirt. She wears them to practices, and when she gets tired of the old ones, trades them away at the next event. I suspect Kodiak and Flathead will get worn more in college than her own HS or college logo shirts.</p>
<p>In Stockholm in the late '70s I remember seeing lots of navy blue v-neck sweaters with UCLA on them. When I asked my cousin why so many kids were wearing those in Sweden, he helpfully informed me that it was a college in California. I never did get a satisfactory answer.</p>
<p>I’m with those who think it’s just fun to run into people with something in common. The only people where I live who’ve heard of Williams are people who went there or had a first-degree relative who did. I keep a subtle decal on my car in hopes that someone may stop me in the grocery store parking lot and ask about it.</p>
<p>Although I did not see any college-related ones there, there are some pretty good examples of knock-off clothing that is a little off kilter at [Welcome</a> to Engrish.com!](<a href=“http://www.engrish.com/]Welcome”>http://www.engrish.com/) under the Clothing heading.</p>
<p>Whenever we go to goodwill or another consignment shops, we look through the sweatshirts for college ones…the more obscure the better</p>
<p>We also LOVE old boyscout shirts, bowling shirts and shoes (my D has some old bowling shoes in her school colors)</p>
<p>When I was in graduate school I met a fellow student for the first time and asked him where he went to college. He replied that he went to a small little college in New England. It turned out to be Yale. </p>
<p>I don’t know what he was intending but I found the answer smarmy and took an immediate dislike to him.</p>
<p>I have shirts from all 3 schools my kids attend/ed. I try to be fair and use them equally. 
When I was coming home from Germany last month, I wore a Miami U shirt. (And nobody over there has any clue what that means - it’s hard enough explaning to an American that it is in Ohio. Germans are worse.) A girl at the Munich airport, waiting for the same flight, came up to me and asked if I was an alum. I said no, my D attends there. Turns out so does she. I thought it was funny.</p>
<p>D wore an MU shirt over the summer in California, and was stopped several times by alum. I was happy for it - made her feel connected with her school, even before she started attending.</p>
<p>My favorite shirt is a sweatshirt of my son’s - Says something like “Juilliard volleyball - undefeated for 100 years.” Easy to say, since they have no sports program.</p>
<p>We have always worn t-shirts/sweatshirts with the names of our kids’ schools–HS and colleges! We do a lot of walking/classes at the Y and these are the warmest (sweatshirts in the winter, that is!) and most comfortable articles of clothing for walking/running and to throw on after a workout to go to the grocery on the way home. Many people in our area wear college attire when out exercising, or going to their kids’ sports events. We are in an area that has many colleges and also in ACC country, being in the mid-Atlantic. There is a lot of rivalry and school pride, so it’s often like wearing a pro-sports t-shirt/sweatshirt or hat. We really prefer college sports!</p>
<p>We have gotten many gifts from our college kids that they have purchased at their bookstores, and they are/have been on campuses where students are regularly wearing their school pride.</p>
<p>I never wear brandvertisment clothing, and I haven’t owned anything with the name of my alma mater in over 25 years, but after reading this thread I’ve decided to go my college’s website and order a t-shirt and sweatshirt.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestion, HSisOverated</p>
<p>I loved college - kept going and got my masters and a law degree there. I would go back tomorrow if there was another degree that I wanted to not use. I don’t have one bad memory of it. My logo stuff - and I don’t have much- brings back great memories and means nothing more - no brag, no advertisement - just warm feelings.</p>
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<p>Which is why when people ask me where D goes to college I tell them factually that it’s Harvard. I don’t volunteer the info, but if they ask I tell them. Sometimes I do get the stunned “H-bomb” reaction, but to me it seems worse to be false – to be evasive or try to pretend it’s something else.</p>
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<p>Since I wasn’t there I don’t know anything about his inflection, but my first reaction when I read your post was that he answered “a small college in New England” to try avoid affronting you and only gave the specific college name upon further request. Of course, you were ticked anyways.</p>
<p>^Yeah. In that situation, if someone is looking to be ticked off, there’s no winning. You name the school, you’re bragging. You don’t, you’re obnoxious.
It really depends on the basic goodwill of the listener, the assent not to go looking for grievance when none was meant in the first place.</p>
<p>Hey, do you think I should start wearing the logo shorts from my college days that are in the back of my closet? You know, the ones from the late 70s/early 80s that are so short my rear hung out? Hmmm … that would be a surefire way to mortify my kids!!!</p>
<p>ROFL KELSMOM - ooooo ^^ the visual LOL</p>