https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Fri, 15 May 2026 20:53:13 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it/page/2#post-1850920 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 15:26:22 +0000 Suzanne (ambergreen) 1850920@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm going to some galleries this very evening...and if I were someone whom a white button-front shirt suited and if I were into figurative art, I'd wear it. But I'm not. :)</p> <p>I know someone however who would totally wear it though she's not particularly into art. I was with her when she bought a button-front shirt embroidered with a couple of penises and couldn't wait to wear that. And she did. There's something for everyone out there... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it/page/2#post-1850914 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 14:55:15 +0000 LaPed 1850914@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm with Angie. I steer clear of 100% viscose -- terrible durability. </p> <p>I like the pattern. One of my aunts used to have some Matisse graphic t-shirts, including some nude ones like The Dance. Never occurred to me to be bothered by that, even as an awkward teen. I did grow up among arty hippies (eg as a child I didn't know armpit shaving was a thing), so that may have influenced my perspective. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850898 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 14:10:45 +0000 Angie 1850898@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I would not wear this shirt. 100% viscose is bad. It creases and shrinks. The patch pocket looks off - unpolished.&nbsp;</p> <p>As for the pattern and vibe. It's beautiful. Reminds me of my favourite artist - Picasso. Our house is full of use paintings. Why not!&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850879 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:12:33 +0000 Suz 1850879@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ha, I'm with Carla and Gaylene. I'd wear it. I like it!&nbsp;</p> <p>But like Carla, I have a relatively "boyish" frame so perhaps the effect would be neutralized.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850875 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:49:57 +0000 rachylou 1850875@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm not into nudity, and so would not wear it. I like clothes (!) But it's a nice shirt, and in my artsy hippie town, this wouldn't cause nary an eyelash to bat... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850859 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:22:27 +0000 kkards 1850859@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>hmmmm....i wouldn't wear it to work, but for weekends, why not? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850855 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:01:05 +0000 cindysmith 1850855@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>If it wasn't white I'd totally wear it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850836 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 07:02:42 +0000 Sal 1850836@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I would wear it too, not to a school event, but casually in the weekend with friends.&nbsp; I don't think anyone in my social groups would notice!!</p> <p>But if it gives you pause, there are always more shirts!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850834 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 06:29:28 +0000 Gaylene 1850834@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>OK, we Canucks must be outliers because I’m with Carla in thinking there is nothing particularly sexual in this abstract drawing of a woman’s body. Maybe it’s a cultural thing? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850820 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 03:58:25 +0000 karen13 1850820@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am with the majority - I would not wear it because I be worried about how others were interpreting it. Clothing seems in a very different category than art - maybe because if one is bothered by an art subject, one simply avoids that exhibit, but the clothes that others wear can't really be avoided.</p> <p>This makes me realize that I rarely see male abstract nudes. And would people feel differently if the shirt were a a print of Michaelangelo's David? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850816 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 03:47:29 +0000 Mary Beth (formerly LBD) 1850816@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I would wear it if it were a knit top, not a button-down. Most button-downs don't fit my chest. (Ironic).</p> <p>Speaking of ironic....in America, a film with violence, murder, and death will get a PG or PG-13 rating, (Pirates of the Caribbean 3 opens with a mass hanging, followed by bodies heaped on a cart). </p> <p>Show a naked female breast, and it's an instant R-rating.</p> <p>There you have it. A woman's body is worse than fly-blown bodies being cut down from the gallows.</p> <p>SO H*LL YES I WOULD WEAR THIS SHIRT. If it comes in a knit pullover option. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850815 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 03:20:27 +0000 Emily K 1850815@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>Runcarla,&nbsp;</b>I, too, choose to laugh when possible &nbsp;:-) &nbsp;Hahahah, the maple leaf! &nbsp;I bet the bike-wheels were unintentionally placed, but you know it's a "thing" now to make tee's with all sorts of funny graphics on the boob. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850809 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 03:05:58 +0000 Carla 1850809@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Funny story. My favourite t-shirt was a black bicycle image on white. All my sporting friends thought it was super cool. No one ever said anything, except my mother, an artist (!) who asked if it bothered me that the placement of the wheels of the bike were over my boobs! (Just a peek in the pic below.)</p> <p>I've also worn a uniform with rather bizarre placement of the maple leaf (Canadian motif), but then I have a healthy sense of humour. One has to have a tongue in chique! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850801 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 02:39:21 +0000 Emily K 1850801@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yay, <b>Runcarla</b>! &nbsp;I will note that the first time I saw this shirt, I couldn't make out any of the designs and responded to it positively thinking it was just an abstract. &nbsp;Once I got to the retailer's site, I saw that it was the human figure and started teasing my brain, wondering if I'd wear it.&nbsp;</p> <p>Even now, I respond to it simply as art. &nbsp;I can see that others have attached much more baggage to the choice. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850799 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 02:29:42 +0000 Carla 1850799@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I will be the outlier, and say that I would wear it! In particular, I would make it a part of a dressy capsule. I do not see it as overtly sexual, or even particularly sexy. It's a button down! However I feel that my short hair, modest bustline, and athletic build juxtaposes and neutralizes anything that might normally read as 'sexy'.</p> <p>I wish it was silk, and didn't have the pocket... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850793 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 02:08:56 +0000 unfrumped 1850793@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think I react to it negatively because nudes in painting are different from being a design on clothing. I think the intent really is different. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850770 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 01:00:18 +0000 kwood 1850770@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I dig it. However, even thought I don't see it as a suggestive item, other people would be put off by it. Will depend on context and location. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850768 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:48:32 +0000 JAileen 1850768@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I wouldn't wear it. Yes to sparrows or leaves. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850766 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:40:15 +0000 Janet 1850766@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I could almost see wearing it if it were a bit more abstract -- as others have said, the nipples being drawn in kind of draw too much attention to the forms as body shapes.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850751 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 23:48:30 +0000 Anonymous 1850751@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ha! I actually typed for an art museum night out (opening) and removed it. Exactly, Greyscale. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850750 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 23:45:19 +0000 Emily K 1850750@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think there's a consensus &nbsp;I may have to explore DIY options because I like the idea of the shirt very much but wish the illustration were sparrows or leaves or something. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850747 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 23:25:42 +0000 Greyscale 1850747@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I would aaaaaalmost wear it even though I also have a pretty strong dislike of being seen sexually. You know how fashion magazines are always talking about the outfits one wears to art openings, as if our lives are spent flitting from gallery to gallery? I would wear this if that were my life. Which isn't so far off from my actual life (hooray!) so I can almost imagine it.</p> <p>It's funny, it's just two dots but I agree that it would be less sexual without the nipples, like someone pointed out. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850743 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 22:50:34 +0000 Anonymous 1850743@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I understand the arty- ness of it, but I wouldn't wear it. That has to do with environmental norms, like a family , the kinds of people I interact with, and a lack of interest in calling that kind of attention to myself or my body. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850734 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 22:16:14 +0000 Anonymous 1850734@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to wear it. &nbsp;I work in a male-dominated conservative field. &nbsp;It would send the wrong type of message. &nbsp;</p> <p>That said, I do see why you appreciate it. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850732 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 22:07:15 +0000 Anonymous 1850732@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I would wear it in an arty/adult environment, I think. It looks classy not trashy, to my eye. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850729 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 22:02:23 +0000 Emily K 1850729@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The Cat, I think we are in agreement. I simply wondered if I am more prudish/conservative than most. I see the art in it and like the shirt very much, but I don't the know that I can wear boobies on the outside of my clothes. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850720 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:44:04 +0000 The Cat 1850720@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Where would you like to wear it? Who is your audience, and how do you want them to perceive you? Which signals/messages do you think they'll get when they see you dressed in this shirt?</p> <p>I wouldn't wear it. Nowhere. I just wouldn't like people to think of nudity when they look at me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850718 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:43:25 +0000 Jenn 1850718@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like it, but as the parent of a teenage boy...nope. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850715 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:37:32 +0000 Emily K 1850715@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>Sara L</b>. and <b>Joy</b>, This is the problem. &nbsp;I recognize it as artistic and not pervy, but I do not want to put anything overtly sexy out there. &nbsp;It goes too close to the line for me, I think. &nbsp;I wish there were a shirt JUST like this but with more Matisse-like squiggles, or something. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-shirt-could-i-wear-it-would-you-wear-it#post-1850713 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:30:42 +0000 Anonymous 1850713@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The pattern is subtle but I would not wear it myself. In the US, nudity is too much connected with sex and may give the idea that the wearer is open to something that she is not. It should not be that way but it is.<br /> Could you wear it? If you want to, but first ask yourself what your son would think of your wearing it. </p>