Tees are large on wit

Cleverness seems to be contagious to cotton this school year.

It is not out of the ordinary for THS clubs to provide its members with a t-shirt of red and white block letters to wear proudly; however, this year many clubs have wandered further than this two colored wheel.

On the afternoon announcements advertisements for club shirts: art, newspaper, FFA, Interact, spew from each rooms intercom effectively. Students that are not even in the clubs buy the t-shirts.

One may not know that a lot more goes on behind the buying and selling of club t-shirts than just checks and order forms.

Future Business Leaders of America

“I completely put it in their hands,” stated Mrs. Harris, FBLA sponsor. This meaning that she gave her members “free reign” over the look of t-shirt designs. After voting, the members decided that the best way to represent a club of future business leaders is to wear t-shirts with little, yellow business ties printed on the front.

Fellowship of Christian Athletes

This years FCA club t-shirt used homophones to its advantage. The pale grey t-shirt states in bold, red letters, “Know God. No Fear.” The decision was not executive, but rather a consensus. During a Wednesday meeting, Deputy Silverman presented members with six different designs from www.FCA.org. The club then chose the design that they felt best represented what their club stands for.

Future Farmers of America

“Blame it all on our roots, we showed up in boots.” The clever phrase was not solely made possible by FFA’s branch of officers, or its membership, but rather it was created and designed by the club’s Ms. Savannah Childers. Savannah made the lay out of the shirt on CustomInk independently. Ms. Childers was inspired by irony. During an FFA meeting, all of the club’s members showed up in their boots; there, the idea was sparked.

Ms. Jessica Jones, the club’s co-sponsor, stated that the t-shirt was originally designed to be grey, but members decided that it would not be an FFA t-shirt if it was not national blue and corn gold.

French Club

“If you can’t say something nice, say it in French.” Lucky for the French club the entire section of this article dedicated to their t-shirt will be written in English.

The French club’s t-shirt has been many students’ favorite, with its snarky comment and its feature of a sassy, French beret wearing cat.

Ms. James, the sponsor of the club, designed the t-shirt herself. Prior to her t-shirt pitch to the club, she posted a meme on her personal Facebook account that read as the t-shirts do. It was not until after she found the phrase that she found the cartoon cat that seasons the shirt.

However, this popular design almost did not make the cut. Originally, the t-shirt was designed to read, “You are what the french call Les Incompétants.” Les incompétants translates to incompetent in English.

In order to not offend anyone, the club decided to go with the current style.

Drama

Being a drama club, it is only appropriate that the club t-shirt be lively, entertaining, and read a quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

The shirt, available both in red and black, has “To be or not to be” boldly pressed across the front; however, it does not appear the way it commonly would in Act III of Hamlet.

The club’s very own sponsor, Mrs. Williams, created the t-shirt’s unique design herself. She decided that rather than simply allowing students to read and know the recognizable quote, she would make them think.

The quote is given to its viewers through a picture representation. She replaced the word “to” with the actual number “2,” the word “be” with a bumble bee, the word “or” with and ore, the word “not” with a knotted rope, the repeated “to” with a roman numeral “II,” and the concluding “be” with a lowercase “b.”

Like this: 2 (bumble bee) (ore) (knot) (II) (b)

“Sometimes the ore is mistaken for a paddle. People are lucky that I didn’t just put a rock on the t-shirt and make them figure that out,” snarked Mrs. Williams.

Art

Lavender ombre accents the Trojan head well.

Mrs. Evans, art teacher and club sponsor, decided that, being an art club, their t-shirt not only had to be outside of the box, but stylized. The classic Trojan emblem just would not suffice.

The club decided as a membership that the Trojan on their t-shirt would be artistically modified, and who better to create the Trojan than the clubs instructor herself?

Mrs. Evans stated that the drawing took 4 hours to complete. After observing the shirt there is no doubt in her statement.

Just below the Trojan is a quote that reads, “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” This was believed by french artist, Edgar Degas and is still believed by the THS art club.

The pressure of having a unique shirt always hangs onto the clubs of Tunstall, and once again they have all succeeded against the pressure.