Used work shirts

While I'm healing from the broken arm, button-up shirts are the answer. I admit, my closet doesn't contain a ton in the short-sleeve variety.

Buy new ones? How about something easier on the budget: used work shirts. Walts looked respectable, so I figured I'd give them a try: six used, short-sleeve work shirts for $5.49 each (And no, I didn't pay extra to have the patches removed.)

I just received my order. They smell and look totally clean. Most are Red Kap, which is what we use for our own work shirts. A few have patches--not all, which is fine.

Today I'm:

I bought mine from a uniform rental place. They sell off the ones that are either too gakked up to rent any more, or when the person whose name is on the shirt quits his job. They sell for a buck apiece.

I would have sent them to you as a gift, but you didn't ask :)

That guy Walt has a great racket. I bet he buys 'em for a buck apiece, too - maybe less if he buys in bulk.

Doh. Since I just got back driving, I figured that mail order was the answer. Still, for this price, I'm totally happy.

In reply to David S. Wallens:

Years ago a close friend & forklift mechanic got new uniforms when his company switched vendors, so he offered me a couple jackets. I removed the patches from one, but kept them on the other - including his name, "Andy".

I wore it out to dinner one night, and there were a couple people at a nearby table who I'd known from 20-years prior. They were debating amongst themselves whether or not it was truly me, albeit with much less and more grey hair, when one told the other "See, he has his name on his ja.... Oh." It was fun.

I actually wore it to the DMV the other day. It's a small office & I know the 3 employees fairly well from all my vehicular exploits. Sadly they asked me to remove it for my new license photo. Probably for the best anyway, I can just imagine trying to explain to an officer why the name on my license doesn't match the one in the photo on my license...

In reply to Pete Gossett:

That happens to me at places like the bank sometimes. "How come your shirt says 'Gary' when your name is Evan?"

Standard reply: "No, my shirt's name is Gary!"

My shop coat says shane.

I also have gary, fred, and suzanna in the collection.

Red Kap work shirts are pretty nice, +/- $25 ea.

Nice score there Brian

Dusterbd13 wrote: My shop coat says shane. I also have gary, fred, and suzanna in the collection.

Fred was the name of our college softball team.

I think of my Uncle who always wore a shirt like that, and the smell. No amount of washing would ever convince me to wear his old shirts.

In reply to EvanR:

If you think that Walt guy has it good, you should try looking at nasty old work shirts on eBay sometime

This would turn out to be even funnier if the shirt previously belonged to McTaggart, Bangshift's Unknown Parts Counter Guy.

Never mind, his (now known) name was spelled with a Y.

I wear redkap uniforms for work, i always wondered what happened too old ones. We had a guy quit a few weeks after his 5x shirts came in. Makes sense that they get resold.

Today I am "Grant".

You need to wear that to a F&F movie.

Great. I made it 47 years without wanting a used work shirt with some random name sewed over the pocket...but now I am having a hard time not buying some.

True story, and JG can confirm. Way, way back in the day, Skif Dank, our local/favorite ska band, did a run of used work shirts with the band's logo screened on the back. My shirt came from BFI. Name: Eugene.

David S. Wallens wrote: True story, and JG can confirm. Way, way back in the day, Skif Dank, our local/favorite ska band, did a run of used work shirts with the band's logo screened on the back. My shirt came from BFI. Name: Eugene.

Confirmed, and those were awesome.

When I hit the lottery I'm going to bribe Gabe into a reunion show.

I bought a Dickies at a thrift store in Berlin titled as Mike's Cash Register Shop with the name Mike on the other side. My name is Mike. I gad to get it. It rules.

I had a cadillac tech one once. Tech's name was Harry or something like that. I bought it because it was a cadillac work shirt.

Some days it's good to be a Brian!

-Brian

paranoid_android74 wrote: Some days it's good to be a Brian! -Brian

I concur. OTOH, I'm partial to Hawaiian shirts if I need to button up.

When I started at the bus company I needed light blue work shirts to wear until my uniforms came in. After leaving orientation another trainee suggested we stop at some of the nearby vintage clothes shops. We were able to find a few used MTA uniform shirts for $2 a piece. I picked up a weeks worth, a hat, and a sweater. They had our old logo that had been phased out 3-4 years earlier so once I finished training and was on my own people assumed I had time on the job and transferred into the depot so I was able to avoid a lot of the nonsense that other rookies were dealing with.

There was a JC Penny outlet store in Kansas City years ago that I always bought my work shirts from. I think all the returned or mistake work shirts would end up there for $2. I was every name under the sun both male and female and those red kap shirts wear like iron.

I want one that says eric so i can go around talking like cartman and sound normal

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