It looks like a red, white and blue Yield sign with "Track & Field" in itsy-bitsy print..For Pete�s sake, what event is a Triangle?
Welcome back from WAVA Gateshead. If the past is any indication, the Track & Field meet was great but the Track & Field T-shirt was lousy.
Why is this? A Track & Field T-shirt should be a walking billboard for Track & Field! It should SCREAM Track & Field. It should instantly convey Track & Field at a distance of at least a good triple jump. It should be a Track & Field beacon, not just a souvenir to throw into the closet. I dug out my collection of T&F T-shirts and, sad to say, most of them will stay in the closet.
For example, the words "Track & Field " on the 1992 (Spokane) National Masters Championship T-shirt are a quarter inch high! A quarter inch! Maybe you need letters that small on a sports bra, but not on a T-shirt! In fact, on only one of my T-shirts are the words "Track & Field" more than an inch high. Only if you were trying to hide the sport would you do this.
Maybe this is WAVA�s problem. WAVA�s 1996 North and Central American and Caribbean World Regional Master Championship T-shirt didn�t have the words Track and Field on it at all. I never bothered to buy a WAVA T-shirt from the 1995 World Championships in Buffalo because they mostly had a picture of, guess what, a buffalo on the front. Same with the 1998 (Orono, ME) National T-shirts, which carried a big picture of a moose. Couldn�t the moose or buffalo have at least been throwing the Javelin or something?
Frankly, the standard USA Track & Field T-shirt is not much better. The NBA markets itself with - a Basketball. The NFL markets itself with - a Football. Major League baseball markets itself with - a Baseball. USA Track & Field markets itself with - a Triangle: It looks like a red, white and blue Yield sign with "Track & Field" in itsy-bitsy print..
For Pete�s sake, what event is a Triangle?
So listen up folks. Here are some basic T&F T-shirts 101�s:
Another T-shirt design problem is when you have a neat Track & Field T-shirt to wear and scare off the competition, there is no place to pin your number without covering up some awesome design. So how about incorporating a box to pin your number into. When you�re not competing the box could contain some useful advice in the following order:
If you think you�ve got a smashing Track & Field T-shirt that just SCREAMS Track & Field, take a good closeup picture, scan it into a .jpg or .gif file and e-mail it to me as an attachment [email protected]. Or if you can spare the picture, mail it and I�ll scan it (%7043 22nd Ave N.W., Seattle, WA 98117). The best examples are posted at Screaming T&F T-SHIRTS .