About a week ago I designed, ordered, and printed this t-shirt from www.SpreadShirt.com. The shirt features the text “SECOND CLASS CITIZEN” printed upside-down in metallic gold. The idea behind this design is that the wearer must bow their head down in shame in order to properly read the upside-down text. Residents of the District of Columbia, like myself, the intended wearer, are denied representation in Congress and are thus second-class citizens. That is pretty screwed up.
After creating the shirt, I realized that it reminded me of a similar design a friend of mine made that uses the flag of the District of Columbia:
Upset The Setup.
Post Title:
Second Class Citizen: A Shirt of Shame
Post Tags: Bow, DC, district of columbia, gold, SECOND CLASS CITIZEN, Shirt of Shame, SpreadShirt, Upset The Setup, Upside-Down, Washington
Posted in: Clothing, Colonist, Design, Fashion, Humor, statehood
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This is great (and I will totally buy one as soon as I’m back from Canada). Would you think about making a t-shirt with your missing-star flag design on it?
Comment by Carin — 2/4/2010 @ 8:27 am
Not a bad idea. I think I’ll do that ;-)
Comment by Nikolas Schiller — 2/4/2010 @ 10:51 pm