I have two friends who have very opposite opinions about wearing "talking t-shirts". One would absolutely refuse to wear any t-shirt with some writing on it. He only would eventually accept to wear one with a drawing on it, while the other one would send everyday a different message to the world through the funny writings on his shirt.
That is true that in some kind of way, the message on one’s t-shirt is the prolongation of one’s speech.
Maybe then, better than just ‘not let our t-shirt do the talking’ (see B. Vermander’s article), we should just be conscious of what our clothes have to say: we can refuse that fact but the way we dress is also tributary to some social codes and, to some extend, it’s also part of our external identity. We could even chose to be naked and only ‘wear a barrel’ and it surely would be a most powerful statement than wearing a t-shirt with some message written on it.
