Tuesday, July 20, 2010

A real-world XXL ... or a NASCAR medium?

Posted by Alan Scherstuhl on Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:00 AM

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Yes, there's an adult behind this T-shirt.
​Behold the magnificence of this dress-length T-shirt spotted at Vanity Fair, the Lee and Wrangler Jeans store out at the Legends Shopping Center. The shirt promotes Lowe's, a chain of hardware stores you can see from space, and Jimmie Johnson, which I believe is a brand of sausages.

The shirt is sized "Medium."

That's a full-sized grown-up hoping the wind doesn't catch it, fill it like a sail, and carry her off to Oz.

There's a full rack of 'em. And, seriously, they're mediums.

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With sizing this generous, what passes for a large today? A tarp with armholes? A Dale Earnhardt Jr., bedsheet?

Anyway, if you go to Lowe's, as the shirt suggests, you could buy a couple wooden poles, tie them together, and then build yourself a medium-sized Jimmie Johnson pup tent.

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Shit I had forgotten about (The) Trevor!

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Posted by DLC on 07/20/2010 at 3:53 PM

WTF is "Trevor and NASCAR chick" talking about?

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Posted by gene s on 07/20/2010 at 12:00 PM

That might not fit my NASCAR neighbors. More shirt!

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Posted by king of the dot on 07/20/2010 at 8:45 AM

Alan Scherstuhl, congratulations, you made the list of, �YOU CAN GET OUT�.

Lemmie �splain somethin� to ya, ya comie hippie! That there shirt shows you an org chart if properly concocted. See, if yer standin� under an American flag, on a NASCAR track, you�ll find God at the top, America above the shirt, Jimmie Johnson below that, Lowe�s below JJ, and Jimmie�s Johnson below that, and all of that is atop the hallowed ground of a NASCAR track. And, if that there track has been properly christened, there is a thin layer of Busch Light betwixt the Johnson and the track.

See there, that�s what ya call a bonafide pecking order.

You will also note that Jimmy Dean ain�t�nowheres in that there pecking order.

Now, I get that you skinny writing types what type with yer pinky fingers out to the side and sip on your chilatto teas and bran muffins don�t eat no meat. THAT is why you don�t know your sausage nor could you fill out such a shirt�ya varminous idgit.

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Posted by Trevor on 07/20/2010 at 8:39 AM

Though this NASCAR apparel is extreme (in sizing, not style), most clothes and their sizes aren't much less out of whack these days.

When I buy a shirt, more often than not a LARGE fits me best. And I'm a bona fide biological outlier (6'4", 245 lbs)!

It puzzles me that there are enough people two sizes larger than me to justify Target carrying XXL polo shirts.

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Posted by jjskck on 07/20/2010 at 7:54 AM
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