Back when I had a ‘real’ job, I used to wear tops. Button up silk things, beautifully draped pieces and structured peplum cover ups that were suitable for a corporate environment and often easily transitioned to evening events where someone or other was launching the latest thing. Nowadays, I get around in my jeans, a Bonds tee and my leather jacket. While I am super comfy, the transition to evening is that bit harder, but its actually the calibre of tee shirts that has got me thinking this week.

Standard Black Bonds Relax Tee – Buy three and save!

How many tee shirts do you own? I can categorise mine as follows:

– Black and white tee shirts, usually Bonds, that I try to wash minimally for fear of fading/yellowing.
– Old magazine freebie tee shirts, suitable for sleeping in or dying ones hair.
– Old Bonds tee shirts, also suitable for sleeping in once they have been ‘retired’.
– Fun printed tee shirts, best worn on weekends with thongs and bathers.
– The tee shirt dress, also best worn with thongs and bathers
– Long sleeve tee shirts. A Winter staple.
– A collection of other colours, shapes and styles – variations on the basic tee shirt shape – that are mixed and matched to dress up or dress down many outfits. Fancy skirts can be dressed down with a basic Bonds. Old jeans can be dressed up with a sparkly Sass&Bide.

It has come to my attention that my boyfriend also has a lot of tee shirts. His can also be categorised:

– Tee shirts he wears.

That’s it. He indiscriminately wears them morning, noon and night. To bed, to work, to the pub, to the footy, for working in the garden, for lunches with parents, on date night. There is no rhyme or reason for his sartorial choices on a day to day basis. I can’t comprehend his decisions – sometimes I wonder if that tee happened to be on top of the pile, or if his mood was suited to stripes that day, but there is no consistency and I can’t figure it out.

I get that I’m quite possibly an extreme case when it comes to tee shirts, but I’m curious – what is the tee shirt situation with your man? Or if there happen to be boys reading this – what is the story!?!?