TrendSpark: Cartoon T-Shirts

Edited by Rebecca Alexander

Great article today in TimesOnline regarding cartoon t-shirts that have been unfortunately spotted around town lately.

“a trend for people who are not six years old to wear cartoon T-shirts. I imagine the intended effect is, “Look – I’m still cute and ditzy!” – but to me it’s faintly perverted that anyone over 25 would wear a picture of anything that might appear on a toddler’s lunch box.

Yet they are everywhere – people with spider veins wearing T-shirts featuring, say, Daisy Duck (Topshop), Minnie Mouse, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm (Asda), My Little Pony (Choice). What are they thinking? No one, apart from maybe the steamed-up-glasses brigade, wants to see a middle-aged woman’s breasts with the words “Little Miss Giggles” stretched across them. It’s Lolita in reverse. It’s freaky. Make it go away.”

Gotta say, we here at FI totally agree. One of our bff’s bff was caught wearing a ‘Cheerios’ tee the other day and we cringed. Don’t people know how to grow up? T-shirts are great, but they don’t need to have Sponge BoB on them for you to appreciate the wearability.

Weight in indies, cartoon tees in or out?