Tops

The other day, I was gifted with a shirt. Some friends had gone to see a theatrical piece. It was, in fact, a sort of parody of the Terminator films, and someone was giving away shirts promoting Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest film. As my friends and I were rather eager for his first major performance in ten years, this was a rather fortuitous occurrence. Several of the shirts were procured with the intention of wearing them to the theater.

We did that, in fact, but the tale of seeing the movie is a separate one from what I mean to discuss now. It's that shirt. It looks nice, basically, but has some peculiarities. The back identifies the star, the film's title and its release day, but the front has a rather detailed illustration which substantially coincides with the theatrical poster. I rather imagine that I will have to be careful with it in order to preserve the shirt through the wash.

The shirt is one of those with the sleeves in contrasting color, but it is not quite a long-sleeve shirt. Neither is it short-sleeved. It actually seems to go a bit beyond that rare shirt which extends to the elbow. It goes a couple of inches beyond that, and I can't help but wonder why that is. Probably someone can explain, but it just seems like an awkward, arbitrary length of sleeve for a shirt. Anyway, it's novel.

The shirt is all cotton, so it's normal enough in that regard, but the bottom of the shirt sort of funny. It seemed initially as if the front must go further than the back, but that proved to not be the case. It just doesn't seem to be hemmed down there. It's like it just got chopped. Anyway, it's a basically fine shirt. I'm sure that I will find opportunities to wear it down the line. At the very least, it stimulates conversation well.