August 27th, 2008 by Kathy Austin

The rapid rise of the popularity of the t-shirt from its humble beginnings is well documented. From just a plain t-shirt, with the addition of just about anything getting printed on either its front or on its back, the t-shirt took on a variety of avatars like retro t-shirts, cool t-shirts, surfing t-shirts, hilarious t-shirts and funny t-shirts.

T-shirts with funny and comical messages have always entertained people with a light dose of humor and made people grin and brought laughter on their faces. Some were recollected whereas others just faded from the memory. These T-shirts not only had funny messages but also played pranks on almost everything without been offensive.

Then someone who had a belief that bad taste is a fashion statement came up with the idea of writing crazy things on these shirts. Crazy things and that included pictures as well. Mad things and pictures. Mildly scatological stuff (medically, scatology is the study of one of those words used in crazy t-shirts). The use of four letter words on t-shirts was no longer considered offensive. Surprisingly, it became a fashion statement. Crazy t-shirts became a craze. A statement like “Bad Samaritan” is crazy. We only associate “Samaritan” with “Good”.

This fad is evident in the T-shirts while shopping where one may come across all sorts of funky and whacky T-shirts that sometimes give a person with fashion awareness a rude shock that fashion lies in the eyes of observer and just about anything can turn into a trend setter and not just high fashion.

Why are these T-shirts so much in vogue? Probably as one of the renowned French designer like Coco Chanel expressed that” The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” And it goes without been skeptical that this type of T-shirt is a sign of someone who expresses his emotion aloud. It is not just about thinking aloud but the designer openly declares in this case. It is a unique creative talent though some of them may overlook it by finding it to be obscure. However, the fact remains that creativity itself requires an obscure mind.

Nevertheless, the crazy t-shirt has come to stay in our midst, and it wouldn’t be surprising if almost everybody owns one of them, at least the mildly crazy kind. Of course, secretly he or she may want to wear the more bolder and crazier one but refrain from doing so for fear of offending someone or other.

Gifting t-shirts is an easy way of showing your affection for a relative or a friend or even a casual acquaintance. It is easy to gift them a cool, a retro or a funny t-shirt. Certainly, crazy t-shirts also make great gifts for relatives and friends, who understand you well, but may not be appropriate to casual acquaintances. The milder ones may be more fitting than the ones at the other end of the scale.

Now if you feel that buying crazy T-shirt is inferior grade, inferior in the sense that it is a loud expression of someone else, then you need to think out of the box and come up with something that is really bizarre. There is no shortage of matter on this crazy God-forsaken planet. Just rack your brains and go on the internet and get it done. Wear it and make a loud expression.