For years I wore my State Fair t-shirts to work in August – a different one each day up until opening day. But then, for some reason, I never wore any of them TO the Fair. I’m not sure why and I’ll admit I never really thought it was weird. I have a nice number of flowy, tunic-like tops (you Blevins folks have probably seen all of them) and I usually wore those during fair days.
Then this year, I had several dirty projects the first week of August and didn’t wear any of my fair shirts. This made me think about my pattern and I decided to wear fair shirt to the fair. Radical I know.
On Saturday, I wore my newest fair shirt (above) in addition to a pair of earrings I found last year at a little shop in the Grandstand:
I don’t think I’ve ever unintentionally drawn so much attention to myself. From the time we got in line for the Park `n Ride bus until we got back to the parking lot (about 8 hours), 13 people commented on my shirt, 2 on the earrings. All positive comments. And after a few of the remarks, I started to realize that a lot of folks were noticing the shirt, even if they didn’t say anything. It was weird and surprising since only two people had said anything about the shirt I wore on Thursday. And one of them was at the Star Tribune booth; the shirt was a Steve Sachs design…
I met a gal later in the afternoon wearing the same shirt and we had a quick conversation about the shirt and she said she had experienced the same thing I had. I suppose the colorful corn dogs on the black background make it stand out more than most fair t-shirt designs. The great irony is that I don’t even eat corn dogs! Haven’t even tried the vegan one at the fair yet!
Wonder if I’ll get a lot of comments when I wear the corn design shirt with the dangly ear of corn earrings?
Do you have any items of clothing that have gotten remarks?
Trail Baboon 
I often get a comment or two when I wear my cowboy shirts but they have been too warm to wear this summer.
It’s a little late for this year but I have begun making some Hawaiian-style shirts in decidedly non-Hawaiian prints. I’m still working out a few kinks in the pattern on the first one.
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Bad Spellers of the World…Untie
always got comments and laughs.
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I’ve seen that as “Dyslexics of the World – Untie
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That makes more sense, I think.
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Rise and Shine, Baboons,
I have two pair of polymer clay earrings that I wear a lot. They were made by artist Lindy Haunani (Hawaiian last name) modeled after a lei necklace. I usually get a comment about them when I wear them.
I am packing and organizing for my trip which starts Friday by taking Lou to Iowa, then I leave Saturday evening. What am I forgetting?
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How long will you be in… is it Ireland, Jacque?
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11 days. 9 in County Down where my art class and a friends retreat center is located. (many outdoor scenes of the TV show. Game of Thrones were filmed about 2 miles away and they use this retreat center as a make up and costuming location.). Then 2 1/2 days in Dublin.
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Fame Adjacent….. I’ve done some of that, too.
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I have a couple of “local” tee shirts – one with a map of the Drifless area, and one from Wisconsin’s (right across the river) Kinstone. Also a pair of fused-colored-glass earrings by our friend Bernadette, who passed in 2015… Her work is well known around here, but these are unusually nice.
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I don’t have anything eye catching but my sister wore her “Keep Minnesota Passive-Aggressive” tee shirt to the fair a couple of years go. She got a lot of knowing looks and comments.
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I saw that tshirt yesterday.
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I wore my frog onesie pjs to a No Kings rally this spring. It got rave reviews. I wore it all over town and out to lunch. I don’t usually do things like that!
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Today I’m wearing my Minnesota Bound tee with Millie on it. Got my photo taken with Millie last Thursday!
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I try to dress in a way that doesn’t attract attention, but I have a couple of pins that get comments. One is a tiny Westie terrier that I got at a British imports shop years ago. It’s carved or shaped from wood, with white yarn wrapped all around it to look like fur and a very tiny plaid fabric scarf. It looks cuter than it sounds. I wear it on my plaid wool fall jacket and strangers often comment on it.
The other pin is so old I don’t remember where I got it, probably an art fair. It’s a little lady’s slipper flower made of leather and hand painted. I don’t wear it much anymore for fear of losing it, but it used to get comments as well.
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I used to have a pair of plaid reading glasses…
When teaching kindergarten (St. Anne’s of the Sunset, in San Francisco) in 1970, mini-skirts were what the style was. Imagine, with all that bending over… When the first “midi” length skirts and dresses showed up, I jumped right on that. First day I wore it, one of the nuns told me I’m a “be-different”…
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I saw a student today, wearing a T-shirt, I only had a second to register as we passed but it said “MEXICO.IT’S MORE FUN ON THIS SIDE OF THE FENCE”.
I laughed.
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I have a couple of house pins by Lucinda. I wear them on jackets, and they get many, many comments.
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Lucinda? (I may have missed something..)
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I’m sure she has a last name, but she just goes by Lucinda. If you google house pins by Lucinda and click on images, you’ll see lots of them. No two are alike.
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Haha, once one! 😂 You already know how it goes, my friend! 😄
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