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From: chabot@miles.DEC
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Subject: Re: Advertising/Consumerism
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 09:35:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  1 09:35:35 1985
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In my vast collection of t-shirts, most of the advertisement-type t-shirts were
given to me by the advertiser for free.  (One of the two exceptions, for a
science fiction bookstore, was a gift, and the other is about an opera
festival.)  I suspect that advertisement t-shirts started out as being mostly
freebies given to customers or employees or attendees of some function (like 
when you go to a state fair and a booth passes out hats with products/candidates
on them), and then these became popular as things to collect, and an "in" thing
to have, so they were manufactured on a larger scale and sold.  Either that, or
it's just a popular display of pop-art and kitsch.  

L S Chabot	...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot