Comments on: I’m sensitive and I’d like to stay that way http://dailytannenbaum.com/2007/04/11/im-sensitive-and-id-like-to-stay-that-way/ The stigmata of the single life.* Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:12:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: stefanie http://dailytannenbaum.com/2007/04/11/im-sensitive-and-id-like-to-stay-that-way/#comment-617 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:15:00 +0000 http://dailytannenbaum.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/im-sensitive-and-id-like-to-stay-that-way/#comment-617 Wow. I have been annoyed by tags, but have never gone so far as to re-sew a shirt to remove them!

With the sort of stiff plasticy tags that I know are going to be a bitch to remove, I sometimes try trimming them in a rounded shape but leaving them intact. The rounded edges don’t irritate as much as the pointy square ones. I haven’t tried this enough times to guarantee it will work in all situations, however.

]]> By: rdl http://dailytannenbaum.com/2007/04/11/im-sensitive-and-id-like-to-stay-that-way/#comment-614 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:48:00 +0000 http://dailytannenbaum.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/im-sensitive-and-id-like-to-stay-that-way/#comment-614 You have way more patients than me – 30 min! I can’t even get myself to sew back the button on my peacoat (that I’m still wearing :( that’s been off since last year.

]]> By: Noelle http://dailytannenbaum.com/2007/04/11/im-sensitive-and-id-like-to-stay-that-way/#comment-613 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:36:00 +0000 http://dailytannenbaum.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/im-sensitive-and-id-like-to-stay-that-way/#comment-613 lizgwiz – I bought a pack of those tees for working out. They are brilliant.

NPW – The other thing is that I always just throw my tees in the wash on the same cycle. I never check the tags. I’m becoming a big B.R. fan.

mermu – today, I take out the tags, tomorrow I take out Bin Laden. Evils be gone!

MSW – Welcome! The seam ripper is indeedy a wonderful tool until all shirts become tattooed.

]]> By: Mary Sheehan Winn http://dailytannenbaum.com/2007/04/11/im-sensitive-and-id-like-to-stay-that-way/#comment-612 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:57:00 +0000 http://dailytannenbaum.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/im-sensitive-and-id-like-to-stay-that-way/#comment-612 Oh I laughed. Thanks for tackling this issue.
The seam ripper is so familiar and I have a few ‘trendy’ pieces, all black, of course :D
The whole tag thing is a scourge and the new tatoo type is great
We’re all victims of the manufacturers one way or another.

]]> By: mermu http://dailytannenbaum.com/2007/04/11/im-sensitive-and-id-like-to-stay-that-way/#comment-611 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:09:00 +0000 http://dailytannenbaum.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/im-sensitive-and-id-like-to-stay-that-way/#comment-611 Tags suck but we are all slaves to branding in one way or another. I like those tagless tags that aren’t tags at all but tattoed reminders of who and what the shirt came from.

I think you have to let go of your anger and revel in the truth that in 1 short evening you beat the evils of this world by doing it yourself. Down with tyranny and torturous tags by the simple subversive act of ripping them out and sewing the holes.

I still get a kick out of defeating the evil ShowerMonster that stopped up my shower. All it took was 19.95 for my “sword”, a little elbow grease and BAAM! That ShowerMonster is back in the pits of hell (or perhaps the neighbors pipes?) where it belongs.

]]> By: NancyPearlWannabe http://dailytannenbaum.com/2007/04/11/im-sensitive-and-id-like-to-stay-that-way/#comment-610 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:16:00 +0000 http://dailytannenbaum.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/im-sensitive-and-id-like-to-stay-that-way/#comment-610 Yep- the Banana Republic and J.Crew tshirts with the silkscreened tags are the way to go. I hate scratchy tags on my neck, but surprisingly, I hate them on the bottom corner even more. (Urban Outfitters is notorious for that.)

]]> By: lizgwiz http://dailytannenbaum.com/2007/04/11/im-sensitive-and-id-like-to-stay-that-way/#comment-609 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:10:00 +0000 http://dailytannenbaum.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/im-sensitive-and-id-like-to-stay-that-way/#comment-609 I love, love, love the silkscreened tags some manufacturers are coming out with–you know, the manufacturers who actually love us, and our delicate flesh.

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