What's With My Shirt?

Note to self: wearing statement shirts = walking pickup line

A guy wearing a shirt (with an acronym on the front) rides the LRT with a friend. Inside, he makes eye contact with a girl passenger, and she comes up to him and asks, "Anong meaning ng shirt mo?" The guy smiles and answers… and probably thanks his lucky stars he picked that shirt to wear. As a bonus effect, the girl smiles sweetly and says goodbye as she exits at her station.

So then the guy wonders, “What’s with my shirt? Is it my shirt?” “Or my smart, bespectacled look?”

“Or is it me?”

Statement shirts are always a conversation starter. Well, at the very least, they are definitely attention grabbers. Which is why plain black or white shirts with one-word adjectives are everywhere right now. It’s like letting people know you in a nutshell – since it is assumed you would only wear something that suits you.

But the shirt is just the icing on the cake. What’s more important is the main dish – YOU.

How you carry yourself is the be-all and end-all of impressions. No matter how nice the icing looks, it’s how the cake tastes that ultimately matters. It’s how you walk, how you stand, how you make eye contact with other people, especially girls. It’s gotta be something like an I’m-not-a-rapist-but-I’m-interested-in-you look that’s not threatening and only mildly assertive. If you’re able to exude this without even thinking (like this guy in the acronym shirt), then expect girls to walk up to you. Ergo, you better get yourself some more of those statement shirts so they’d have no trouble finding a pick-up line. Just think, you’re making lives easier for them hahaha.

So if you ask, “Is it my shirt? Or the one wearing it?”

It’s definitely the one wearing the shirt -- that just happens to have a statement on it. Ikaw na! :D