An It Is What It Is T-Shirt 8 Years Later

I bought a t-shirt from It Is What It Is about 8 years ago and its been through a lot. I must have worn it well over a hundred times (I do have other t-shirts you know). I’ve worn it in Barbados, Antigua, the depths of a British winter, cleaning my car and painting the house. It’s been with me through thick and thin. But I was wondering, how is it actually fairing? Well here’s the photographic evidence.

I first off looked at the lettering on the front. I bought the “This T-Shirt Cost Sixteen Pounds” t-shirt and I was very surprised at how well the letting is standing up considering all the wear its had. The thing to note is that I’m using a super macro lens that shows any blemish up massively. The slight cracking of the letters can hardly be seen. What would be interesting is to look at a large print on a t-shirt. I’m sure with that sort of print the cracking would be more noticeable. But who keeps t-shirts for eight years and then still wears them (other than me)?

All the It Is What It Is seem to have (or they did then) a label stitched to the bottom right corner. There was only the slightest fraying, and I only noticed by looking at the close-up photo even closer!

One of the areas that gets the most damage on t-shirts is the collar as it gets grubby in hot sweaty conditions and often leads to degradation of the fibres. Here there was none of that. It was still as good as the day I got it those 8 years ago:

All in all, I’m still getting great wear out a t-shrt that cost £16 years ago – you can’t argue with that. Well done guys!

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