70s Physics Team Coach Vintage T-shirt (unworn)

Can you just imagine the glee in the hearts of the students who presented this gift to their Physics Team coach? 

After months of training and competing and learning formulas together, they came up with a present that he would be sure to love. 

Would he wear it to school? To mow the lawn? To the grocery store? 

Nope. The tags are still attached. He wore it nowhere. 

You can change that! Give this shirt a life. Physics Team Coach 70's vintage t-shirt on Etsy.

- Some Nancy Drew research indicates this shirt is likely to have belonged to Mr. Moore, the science teacher from Zionsville Community High School, Indiana.

Top 6 Vintage Halloween Costumes

The world does not need another Sexy Black Cat this Halloween. Be different! Be funny! Be comfortable!

1. Be a Rabbit Chow salesperson.  (carry a stuffed animal rabbit and some carrots)

2. Be a Chop Stix Express Delivery Person. (wear an Asian lampshade hat and carry a box of chow mein)

3. Be Michael Jackson from "Beat It"  (no one wants to be defeated)

4. Be a Beauty Pageant Contestant. (wear a big wig and a tiara)

5. Be a Hot Dog salesperson. (carry a bag of buns)

6. Be the Captain and Admiral of the "Breezy" yacht. Easy funny Two Person Halloween Costume:

These costumes are easy, quick, cheap, comfortable, and reusable, and it won't take you 10 minutes to remove them to take a piss.

Happy Halloween!

Behind the T-shirt: Tillie the All Time Teller

Florida National Banks' Tillie says, "I'll make your life easier."

Who is Tillie?

She's the ATM.

photo via Wells Fargo

(via Wells Fargo History Blog: Tillie the All Time Teller)

First National Bank of Atlanta  was concerned that the relatively new automated teller machine (ATM) it introduced in 1974 would appear cold and difficult to use.

In those days, customers were accustomed to walking inside a bank and chatting with a pleasant teller. So First National named their ATM “Tillie the All Time Teller,” and put the face of a smiling blonde girl on the front of the machine. “Tillie” looked inviting to customers and suggested that the machine was highly user-friendly.

 Did it work? In a word, yes. Tillie launched one of the most successful ATM systems in the banking industry.

This particular shirt says "GO GATORS" on the back. Yay unnecessary punctuation!

Available here from Etsy.  Here from Defunkd for a few dollars less!

What the Flock...and Stencil

Sometimes I find blank vintage t-shirts and sweatshirts.

Sometimes I iron flock letters onto them.

I just started printing some with vintage stencils.

THAT BITE WAS BIG.

This story behind this shirt begins with a 4 year old girl by a campfire.

She had a s'more.

Her uncle asked for a bite.

She hesitantly agreed.

He took a bite.

She yelled, "THAT BITE WAS BIG!"

(tears)
[end]

Shirt for sale here.

A Look Inside the Skippy Haha Vintage Warehouse

when you are offering 1000+ completely different items for sale, how can you keep them organized for easy retrieval?

my preference is by color - rainbow order!

on the left are the golf shirts, sweatshirts, and sweaters.

on the right are t-shirts.

roll-up bamboo shades keep the sun from fading, and dust from settling.  in front of, between, and behind all piles are cedar blocks for fresh scent and insect repelling.

puffy jackets are hanging under the rainbow sheets on the right. 

i have another closet upstairs dedicated to windbreakers, track jackets, and western button down shirts.

i spent 5 years of my adolescence working at a gap kids store - if there's one thing i can do it is fold a shirt into a regular rectangular shape!

Vintage Valentine's Day T-shirts

For anybody who celebrates Valentine's Day, by dressing themselves up, or giving a present to another human as an act of love, may I present 22 vintage t-shirts from the 70's and 80's in a variety of colors and sizes, each one with a heart somewhere on it or implied.

Skippy Haha Vintage t-shirts involving hearts.

These 2 in particular would be fun to wear.

80's I [Heart] YOU t-shirt

Jenn & Tony Mall Airbrush t-shirt - two  hearts that beat as one - only $10

See, also last year's Valentine's day post on chocolate, flowers, and booze.

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