I don’t. I really haven’t done since I read a volume of Judith Martin’s Miss Manners and she remarked on the stupidity of wearing a slogan plastered across your body. I made an exception for my Obama t-shirt, and I sometimes wear wordy shirts to the gym, but that’s because I consider myself essentially invisible at the gym anyway.
But. Jodie got me a really undeniably cute t-shirt as a book publication gift: ‘I read books’, it says (‘there wasn’t one that said “I write books,”’ she explained). If there is any slogan that I am willing to endorse, it is that; it is super true. So I ventured out with it today while going about my business, and then I remembered the other reason that I don’t wear wordy shirts: because people stare at my bosom enough already without me giving them something to read. Oy.
