When I first came to LA in the late 70s there was a place that sold new T-shirts in lots of 3 or 5 for almost the same price as a typical new T. They must have got bought excess stock from custom shirt printers or something, because most of the shirts promoted obscure businesses, conventions, bowling leagues, and the like. The nice part was that most of them were silkscreened on good-quality shirts. They lasted forever. And it was fun to know that you were probably the only person in town with a Sterling Tool and Die Pin-Smashers shirt.
We made the mistake of ordering from a mail-order catalogue some years back and we’re pestered by them to this day. Many of them have several pages of “funny-saying” T shirts. Alongside the expected dog/cat/kids jokes there is always a group of shirts seemingly aimed at stereotypical “rednecks.” They include macho gunwaving, patriotic cliches, bragging about excess drinking, and misogynistic jokes that barely skirt the edge of “adults only.” There has to be a market for these things since they keep appearing in otherwise general-interest catalogues. I must say though that I’ve never seen anyone actually wearing one, even in casual photos of MAGA nut events.
