Hello, friends and welcome to another video.
This week I'm going to be trying out another
questionable clothing item and this time it's a shirt.
I didn't really intend this to be a series
I started off with the Teva Ugg hybrid, which some people thought were the ugliest shoes in the world.
And then the clear knee mom jeans
took the internet by storm and I tried those out as well
and then this shirt appeared.
Shout out to Juliana from Facebook for showing this to me first.
This shirt is from Asos
it's 38 dollars,
and it is a fictional band t-shirt covered with a giant ruffled sash...
If that sounds confusing to you.. you're not alone.
This band t-shirt might be the worst one ever made.
Asos's band ruffle t-shirt is breaking the internet.
Festival fashion at its weirdest.
Deeply confused t-shirt combines shoulder tutu with possibly non-existent metal band.
Unless you guys know of a band named HNTJLZ.
So there was one headline,
that was like:
"this is the worst t-shirt ever made",
but mostly people are just confused.
So I think we should try and make some sense of this thing.
I'll bring the shirt out.
Here it is,
The Asos band ruffle t-shirt.
One of the reasons that people are confused by it is because I don't know what the name of the band is.
Then it has a skeleton hand reaching out from what I can only assume is a tuft of grass
holding a blue flower
and the tagline is "love from beyond the grave"
And then we have the ruffle that everyone's talking about.
The purple ruffle right across there.
So I'm going to wear this shirt all week and see if I can try and understand this shirt a little bit more.
Just what it wants from us.
You know? What do you want? Alright, let's put this thing on.
Oooh
Did you just roll around in some tutus?
I feel like Miss America, kind of.
I lost so they gave me this tutu. It's a little bit - is it Carmen Miranda?
You know what I mean? You've got a little bit of like, I've got some bananas on my head kind of thing?
The vibe I kind of get is it's like you are playing little kid dress-up
I definitely in my day
Especially like late middle school early high school
had graphic t-shirts that were like for something that didn't exist.
The question is just like together
The cohesion, where is it?
I would acutally love to know how many of these Asos has sold.
One.
I am feeling playful, feeling flouncy
and really excited to see what the week will bring.
Maybe it could double as a cat toy?
He just hates this.
Okay, so it is day one of wearing the most confusing shirt!
So day one I wanted to wear it in a simple way,
kind of get a feel for it.
My instinct with this shirt is to cinch it at the waist or like tuck it into something just 'cause it's quite voluminous
But the way they style it on the Asos website is just as like a shirt with pants.
So I've got a t-shirt on,
and pants on.
The shirt is definitely more Front-And-Center than the pants or the shoes were.
Just gets harder to ignore 'cause its to my face, it's closer to your line of sight
I'm not particularly embarrassed and nobody's really said anything.
I'm just getting used to wearing a little tutu on myself.
That's just how it feels. I feel like I'm just wearing a little extra something.
Like a normal outfit with a little extra sauce.
So the next night Tyler and I went out for a little like date night.
T: And she's all mine.
I was trying to think, like what is this trying to say. What is the theme of this shirt and to me? It's like excess
It's like a cherry on top
I try to echo that in the shoes are kind of like sneaker boots with studded tongues and like little jingle jangles
It's like the rattle on a rattlesnake. I was like I'm warning you that something's coming.
The outfit's very loud, figuratively and literally. And I think that that's the point.
You don't want to temper it. You want to really lean in. T: you have to embrace You gotta lean in.
It's not necessarily an alluring shirt, it's not like a come-hither, date-night type shirt
But it did feel better to be wearing it kind of in like a nighttime
dinnertime setting where I was like oh a reason to wear something a little more exciting.
We chose tacos, which I love, but like
you know
not the least
spillable food on the planet. The purple frill is definitely something that you
Need to be careful of when eating. Thankfully I got out of dinner with my tutu unscathed
But I was definitely paying attention to where it was going.
If it were a bib that you could like, remove and wash T: Yeah! Or you just-
A subtle, adult bib. T:Just dab it onto your face right there.
I know, seriously.
Day three I wore a mustard skater skirt, and then high-heeled boots.
Okay, so we're at the mall and I am carrying around a very large bag full of stuff that
I have to return but I do feel a little bit like a spectacle just because I added the height
I've got the flounce, I've got the bag, I've got the mustard skirt
There's just a lot going on. The shirt is bringing the heat. So you know, you want to meet the shirt where it is
You don't wanna come up short.
T: Your shoes are so tall, you're almost like a giraffe. I'm a giraffe with a tutu!
Look at me! It's me! Look at me, hello!
The mustard color's also a little giraffe-ish.
I don't know, I was trying something. I don't know if it's working. That's how I feel this whole week,
like I'm trying something and I don't know if it's working.
I also realized that wearing this shirt for a week is different than wearing shoes or jeans for a week
In that you, you should wash it.
Pretty often.
You just turn it inside out
Put it in cold water with like colors then reshape and lay flat to dry
So we're just going to wash it like this. Throwing some leggings in there just to keep it company.
T: You don't think you put it in there and just pray a new shirt comes out? Kind of worried for it.
T: Did it survive? I know I'm nervous, all right hold on
Oh!
Looks pretty intact! It washes well. I actually do think, I think it's
In fighting form. The ruffle is just as floofy as ever.
That's for tomorrow, eh? I'm stroking it like it is Crusty, like it's a cat.
[purring sounds]
So on day four, I had a meeting at an office. And I wore my shirt under a blazer
It wasn't necessarily the most business casual look ever but I think the blazer helped, you know, kinda covered all my bases.
When I first thought of this idea, I was like oh, I'm going to look ridiculous
but it actually kind of works in my opinion. I don't know what it is
I don't know if it's that the tulle is mostly disguised by the blazer
But there's something about it that I kind of like.
I kinda felt like a rocker. Like, a rock star.
You know, I felt like I had my band t-shirt
Which was a little distressed in my case, a little ruffled underneath my blazer, my skinny jeans, and my combat boots
I was like yeah, I'm here. Hopefully they're not too disturbed and just kick me out entirely.
Okay, so update: just got out of the meeting and I didn't get kicked out, but I did get a "hey, cool shirt"
So, who knows what that really means, but the words were "Hey, cool shirt".
Day five: I just went no makeup, shirt, skirt and trusty Birkenstocks. So I'm just working today,
so I try to keep it kind of casual. Just because I felt like up until that point
I had been trying to dress it up. And I gotta be honest that I don't really think that my outfit is
working today
I think I look okay, but I don't think that it's really doing me any favors.
This is my struggle of trying to make a cup of tea right now.
I can't figure out how to make hot water. It seems like such a like statement shirt, but it's like
Oh, you were just trying to be kind of like casual and natural today,
why that shirt? So I don't think that this can function like a normal t-shirt.
I think you do have to try and style this thing. I'm just going to drink this cup of cold water
as if this is what i want. And just leave.
So, day six rolls around and I haven't gotten a lot of outside opinions besides one 'cool shirt'.
So I wanted to get more input so ethos had presented this shirt under the she's with the band festival
Collection so day six we decided to go on a little road trip. Okay guys. We are in the car. We are headed to
Coachella [because] if it's mostly for festivals, but not for everyday. We're in a why not. Go to a festive
throwback to your [Fav] music icon with vintage
[Banshees] grunge inspired plaid and distressed denim for days [now] go out and party like a rock star
You sure look like we actually do have any plans to go to Coachella [in] fact. We still don't have tickets
but we are going to go to the outside of coachella like hopefully the entrance or maybe the parking lot and
see if anyone
Entering the festival would like to wear this shirt
Something like the [chalice]. I'm excited that this could be my first patrol in experience. I feel like I [dressed] in preference
You look well dressed. We're here at the scenic day parking lot at Coachella
honestly, I
Can't wait to see what people have to say I'm a little giddy all butterflies in my stomach
[I] just thought it was like a dead end Miniskirt
And [I] have these like Doc Martin boots that have flowers on them at first
I wonder if it was maybe just me or if it was the shirt that was scaring people off
People didn't really want to talk to me at first, but you know after a while
I got a few people who were willing to give me their honest opinions of the shirt Jessica's here
And she's going to tell me what she thinks about the shirt, and if it is festival wear or not
[it] doesn't look like a [surely] like a tune to
It that works not only
I feel like [you] [drop] [into] doing
Our place knowledge. I thought I was it for the most part the consensus was no at a music festival
Especially coachella from what I can tell people really like put their best foot forward they want to be
Fashionable they like look at this shirt, and they're like that's not what I would choose they could work on something
[there] were a couple people who actually did like it and said that they might want to wear it
Just because it was so unique. [I] dig it. Yeah
We [all] work. I think the more I look at it. The more. I [like] [it], but it was skirt now
I think some of the articles that were originally
Confused about this shirt kind of gave it a pass when they saw that it was like in the sensible
Section that clears things up a little the shirt would definitely fit in at Coachella
Or burning man although it may look a little out of place at school or in the office
I think that just calling it a festival look is kind of being like oh
What a wacky shirt, maybe someone at Coachella would wear it. Oh, all right?
So the final day of the week arrived
So I wore my band ruffle tee shirt with [my] clear knee mom jeans and my [tivo] ugh hybrid
featuring
Fishnet under my clear knee mom jeans because there was an overwhelming demand for Fishnets here
We are the light of day. I made it outside. [I] actually the more I look at the prom
Before I like the shirt as the chiefs together weirdly weirdly, I like them though
I don't hate the shoes in General the shoes
I don't think worked out in this in this particular outfit favorite [white] sunny today
and probably like the worst temperature for all of these things to be on my body well, the most uncouple part as always are the
plastic on the knees
[I] just basically like in a cartoon like when you fall out of a window default serves that [ones] like a laundry hanging outside
And you're like go through each clothing piece
That is a lot like what you're looking like but I also feel like this is the beginning
[of] like some kind of Dance routine and all of my clothing is connected like snap
rip it all off in one motion enemy wearing a really sexy like
You want someone to be like I don't like your outfit you go yeah, I?
Asked our friends Eric [Mark] and [coke] to choose which item they thought was the worst
What do you think of this outfit?
Altogether the shirt and insurance [is] completely
Separated it looks like you [just] drag it over your shoulder
Where does my eye go the [-] to wrap [around] your shoulder looks like we're mauled by a ballerina
[so] when you see this outfit [your] eye go straight to the shirt as the worst thing. Yes
I know she I think people just think I'm having a bad fashion day
I don't think I'm
Mortally offending anyone it feels kind of like a costume kind of just confusing but you know things have been worse
I've had worse days. Oh
I missed the ball I was
Overall this wasn't the worst week of my life
It's just a [weird-looking] shirt after all and I'll say that the shirt was not uncomfortable to wear even if it's outwardly
Weird most of the articles said that it was deeply confusing
Which I agree with I think that it's a pretty confusing shirt
It is kind of fashion-forward in that way where it definitely evokes the reaction?
It's also kind of youthful and playful
[I] think it definitely gives off that my [five] year old cousin dressed me chic
I think for me the reason I don't want [to] keep wearing this shirt is because I think it just takes
Over the outfit too much
I think with the other ugliest items you could kind of make them do different things
And I think with this you're just you kind of you got one thing to say the only time
When I felt like I was giving off a different vibe
was when I had that blazer over it it kind of gave like a little bit of a
Business in the back party in the front five you know rather than just party all the way
Around party all night long all in all I am kind of happy to have found a shirt to complete the first
Iteration of the ugliest outfit in the world
There will be more so-called
Ugly things worn on this channel got a couple already in the mail
But I do think of the items that I've tried out so far this shirt was just.. it was a little more
Insistent than the other pieces this shirt just has its own vision of of life
And you just kind of got to go with it or not wear it
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