Homecoming weekend has passed in a blur again. With a weekend packed full of activities for students, the Homecoming parade and market on Saturday, there was excitement all around. I am sure there was a common theme that everyone noticed while strolling around the fair: T-shirts. It seems like almost every club was selling T-shirts to promote themselves. We all probably bought a bunch of these shirts, but, then again, there is the saying, “Too much of a good thing is never a good thing.”
It is neat to see all of the different T-shirt designs that each club offers; some of them are funny, and others are more practical. However, for as much as we enjoy these shirts, don’t we ever get tired of them? I do appreciate the fact that each club takes the time to think of a design and then have it drawn. However, I cannot imagine it is easy for all members of one club to agree on the design they want to get, let alone find a good enough place to get these done. Nevertheless, I am confident most of us would appreciate some clubs offering different items to sell. By giving another option, people would be more interested in seeing what else a club has to offer instead of another T-shirt.
Maybe some clubs have thought about differentiating themselves through trying something new, but maybe what they were going for would not work. It is possible that they had thought of the idea too late and were unable to do something new in the short time frame. I know that the K-9 Club was thinking about doing something along the lines of making dog bandanas. Unfortunately, the members of the club never set that idea in motion, so they ended up selling the surplus of T-shirts that they have accumulated over the years in addition to offering a pre-order sheet for the dog bandanas. I think that offering something new to the people walking through the fair can get the club the publicity they might need.
As the weather grows colder, we may be thinking, “Well, what am I supposed to do with all of these shirts now?” Just because we tend to bundle up with coats, hoodies and sweatshirts does not mean that we can’t still wear the new shirts that we purchased. In fact, with the way the weather seems to be going and how it fluctuates during these months, there will likely be days when it will be warm enough to wear a T-shirt and be comfortable. Even on the days where it is cold enough to wear a coat, we all tend to shrug off our coats while we are in class or eating in the Marketplace or the Jay’s Nest, thus revealing the club’s T-shirt. There is also the case of just wearing it around your room and building. Who knows when you will run into someone who has not seen the club shirt that you are wearing. You may get complimented!
We are college students and tend to wear T-shirts fairly often. Usually, it is all about being comfortable, and that comfort can mean a T-shirt. We spend so much money on all of the shirts we buy at the activity fair, so it is only logical that we should get a lot of wear out of them.
T-shirts are good to have around. You never know when a lazy day will strike and you’ll want to throw on a tee; or maybe a few years down the road you will look through your closet and find that club T-shirt you bought your first year of college, and you’ll think of all of the memories that go with the shirt. While it would be nice for clubs to offer things other than shirts, those shirts are also nice to have.
