T Shirt diver

[vladimir]

I can see that my first post was inadequate to the challenge at hand: it defined the problem without offering a solution. Here you go, the CAREFREE UNSHRINKABLE HENLEY T-SHIRT from LLBean. At $20 it might seem steep compared to your Divers Do It Deeper T, but it won't embarrass your significant other, it will create the illusion that you care about your appearance (but you'll have to clip your nails and trim your nose hair too), and it won't disintegrate in the wash for quite a few years.

The fashion consultation is free.

 

[rhwestfall]

I prefer (as do most exposed) the Duluth Trading Company "no plumber's but" long-tail-t models (pocket optional).....

 

[Deep South Divers]

I can see that my first post was inadequate to the challenge at hand: it defined the problem without offering a solution. Here you go, the CAREFREE UNSHRINKABLE HENLEY T-SHIRT from LLBean. At $20 it might seem steep compared to your Divers Do It Deeper T, but it won't embarrass your significant other, it will create the illusion that you care about your appearance (but you'll have to clip your nails and trim your nose hair too), and it won't disintegrate in the wash for quite a few years.

The fashion consultation is free.

Hahahahaaa! That's funny.

I suppose that my Girkee flip-flops - with the little dive flag on them - are out, too? What about my Crystal River white linen jacket that says "Dive Hard" on the back of it? I even have a dive flag ring... Does that have to go too?

One of the guys that works for me has a dive flag belt that he wears all the time... And we both drive trucks - red trucks - with dive flags as a front license plate, although mine's the Rebel Dive Flag, my company logo. See it at DEEP SOUTH DIVERS - Your underwater Specialists! . FWIW, both of us have considered painting a large white stripe across our trucks, Starsky and Hutch style, to represent a giant, rolling dive flag.

Can you advise proper fashion apparel in the following situations, please?

1. Just woke up, headed to the dive site, drinking coffee from my Tervis Tumbler dive flag mug.
2. Changing into wet or dry suit at the dive site.
3. Actually diving.
4. Getting out of the water and rinsing gear.
5. Driving back to the shop post-dive.
6. Working on dive gear.
7. Filling tanks.
8. Going home.
9. Getting a hot shower, trimming my nails, plucking my nose hairs, doing a load of laundry, getting something to eat, spending time with my sweetheart, possibly watching a movie or whatever. Probably one about diving.
10. Repeating.

Thank you for your advice!

PS: I wear a necklace every day that has a little Jet fin on it, since I'm a Jet fin owner. Sometimes I trade it out for my shark tooth (megalodon) leather necklace, my New Zealand bone fish hook necklace ("Good luck for scuba divers"), or even the one I have with a simple 1/2" wide dive flag on it. Which of these would you recommend, and with what dive T-shirt? I really don't wear the one white shell choker thing that I used to wear all the time anymore. Too "surfer." Don't want anyone thinking I'm a surfer.

 

[vladimir]

Okay, I could advise you, but I have to confess, I am not the final arbiter on questions of style. That would be Glenn O'Brien, GQ's Style Guy. He doesn't have too much to say on T-shirts (the GQ readership is more concerned with whether their French cuffs should protrude from their suit jackets by 1" or 1-1/4". He does offer this:

I just turned 40, and it’s forced me to take a second look at my wardrobe. How old is too old to be wearing vintage concert T-shirts?




It’s not about age; it’s about occasion. At 40 you can still wear them to sleep in, or to wash the car or the dog in, or to plow in with oxen.



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But his comment on suede pants might be the guiding principle:

For my birthday, someone gave me a pair of brown suede pants. They fit well, but I have no idea what to wear with them. Got any suggestions?




To wear suede or leather pants, you have to be that kind of person. I have not been that kind of person since Jim Morrison died. Personally, I would donate them to charity and take the tax deduction.



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Who knows, you may be the Jim Morrison of dive T-shirts, in which case, have at it.

 

[Thalassamania]

I don't have many dive tees exactly, at least not generic ones. I do have a dresser full of tees from different research vessels, projects and cruises, most of them dive related. Then there's the drawer full of hats ... my favorites are my "Sub Pilot" hat for the Johnson Sea Link and my "IDS107" (course number for the UC Berkeley scientific diving class) hat.

BTW: Jim Morrison did not wear suede pants, leather ... yes, suede ... never.

 

[RTee]

I am not ashamed admitting to collect diving t-shirts from places I have visited and wearing them. Like anything else, it is time and place. It facilitates identifying someone as a diver somewhere and facilitate discussion, especially if said person wears one from a location I would eventually want to visit for future scuba diving trips.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

... besides that, it's cheaper than LL Bean ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Deep South Divers]

...and cooler...

 

[aceupmysleeve777]

I always get a shirt from the shop or boat I'm diving with, and wear them at home, work, and on other trips. Never been into the latest greatest fashion thing, that's why i don't look like a dork in old pictures people will always wear t-shirts. Can't say the same for some of the other crazy crap people wear.

 

[vladimir]

BTW: Jim Morrison did not wear suede pants, leather ... yes, suede ... never.

The Style Guy's pronouncements were offered in jest--like most of what I've written here--so I don't have a real stake in their authority. Nevertheless, a careful read will reveal that he does not disagree with you.