SUITED TOAT
The time has come, Eleganza believes, to set forth some guidelines for the wearing of short-sleeved shirts. And Eleganza is nothing if not timely. Here I will paraphrase Fran Leibowitz, and ask this: If people don't want to hear from you, what leads you to imagine that they want to hear from your T-shirt, or to be urged to buy something by it?
SUITED TOAT
ELEGANZA
by
John Mendelssohn
The time has come, Eleganza believes, to set forth some guidelines for the wearing of short-sleeved shirts. And Eleganza is nothing if not timely.
Here I will paraphrase Fran Leibowitz, and ask this: If people don't want to hear from you, what leads you to imagine that they want to hear from your T-shirt, or to be urged to buy something by it?
Of course there are exceptions to every rule, and this one is no exception. T-shirts for which the wearer himself did the artwork, for instance, are Eleganza-approved, as too are those that advertise products, businesses, or services with particlarly amusing names (Buster's Flophouse, say, or Bobo's No-Pain Acupuncture [Five Puncturers—No Waiting] or eye-pleasing logos—so long as these products, businesses and services are unavailable in the locale in which the T-shirt is worn. Eleganza frowns with all its might on passive shilling.