The Dispatch wrote Playful shirts tout Columbus pride with touches of homespun humor
Thursday, October 2, 2008
BY KEVIN JOY
Wearing civic pride on your sleeve (or torso) just got a whole lot hipper. Yes, it’s finally fashionable to declare an unabashed love of Columbus, sending a kitschy message to your Los Angeles friends: Yeah, I’m from Ohio — what of it?
A growing crop of area artisans, some using only a silk-screen printer and an Internet connection, are creating T-shirts with a satirical (yet loving) take on regional identity.
Think cassette tapes and cornstalks; or lightning bolts, surfers and smokestacks. Alpacas, perhaps. The image might vary, but the message remains constant.
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