b8 accepted, but only because your frame of reference here is the 90s, at which point novelty t-shirts were already a two-decade...
b8 accepted, but only because your frame of reference here is the 90s, at which point novelty t-shirts were already a two-decade old industry. FFS, my high school was offering silk-screening as an elective class before the 90s even dawned. You're not the first person to discover sex, and the 90s were not some sort of renaissance era for t-shirt selling.
Yeah, the good angle to remind me would be that puffy iron-on appliqués being a 70s thing only makes sense if there were t-shirts around. But I’ll counter that back then other men’s and especially boys casual shirt styles were more a thing – polo shirts, western shirts, even Hawaiian shirts, whereas in the 90s the t-shirt was competing with what, the bowling shirt? The black buttoned shirt with flames on the hem and an embroidered dragon?