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If you want to wear your sense of humor on your chest, a downtown shop has just the thing in five sizes for men and women.
The $25 shirt above and the pair at right are from I Am Detroit, which has a store at 450 W. Fort St. downtown (same building as the legendary Anchor Bar) and which also takes online orders.
Dozens of styles and messages are offered, though these catch our eye for some reason.
Well, ladies -- are they? (Oh wait, now we do it too.)
This four-year-old small business professes lofty values at its About web page:
We love our city and everything that it is. . . . I Am Detroit is a Locally Designed and Manufactured Clothing Company, looking to show the positive side of Detroit.
Creating a positive look at our great Motor City.
Really now, is that so?
We try not to seem humorless or comedy-impaired. What's clever to one person can be crass to another, as we're reminded regularly from reactions to our mirth missteps.
So we wondered how social media followers would see these in-your-face wardrobe choices. Below are comments from our Facebook and Twitter communities to Monday morning posts with the her-and-his photo above. The near-even split is 9 in favor, 13 opposed.
Our favorite replies are from Canton real estate agent Jessica Gomez and Iram Ali of Washington, D.C., sharp-eyed punctuation purists who spot a backwards apostrophe on the women's shirts.
► Crude. -- Michael Porter, Farmington Hills
► I'm a triple D that has left the D and I am so buying this. Love it! -- Julie Malkin-Manning, Incline Village, Nevada
► Not for everyone, but isn't diversity wonderful. -- Gerald V. Dajnowicz, Detroit
► "My frat boy humor is more sophomoric than yours" would be a better shirt than these. -- John Brown II, Detroit
► The jokes are kind of corny. -- Kelly Guillory, Detroit artist
► Ha ha, I love it!! -- Amy Odegard, who adds three smileys
► Not so much. -- Annette Riley
► Her D's are prettier than his! -- William Frank, Detroit
► Tacky. -- Robin Runyan, Detroit
► For non-fans [of Detroit] trying to be cutesy. Only it's just dumb. -- Chace Wakefield, Grosse Pointe Shores
► Ha Ha Ha. -- Lawren Reyna, Wyandotte
► Kind of racy. -- Ken Gray
► Yep. -- Tammy Lynn Kay-Dubin, West Bloomfield
► Stupid. -- Kevin Doebler, Sterling Heights and Linda Sidzina, Bay City
► Intellectually obnoxious Michi-trash, and a mockery of small business culture.. -- @Cass_Human
► LOL. -- Valerie Edie, Oscoda
► Sold exclusively to suburbanites, amiright? -- Precious Jarvis, Detroit
► Trash. -- Amanda McMahon, Plainwell, Mich.
► In very bad taste for sure. -- Charlotte Macpherson, Troy
► Now these are what I call clever. -- Lisa Komorosk,
► Those are awesome!!!! Love it. -- Denise Tate, Westbrook, Maine
► Too much. -- Mel Sockwell, Southfield
Thanks to all who responded. Your turn now -- join the party with a comment below, on Facebook or as a tweet.
