Since I don't have the physique/muscles to "properly" wear the so-called wife-beaters, I really don't find them very cool at all. It's gotten downright hilarious especially when I see skinny guys, fat guys, teen-agers, older guys, etc. wearing them. Is it just me or are there people out there who feel the same way? Now, if I had the physique of the Polo model, Tyson, then I'd probably have one for everyday of the week. Since I don't though, it's strictly some kind of shirt(any shirt) over it for me.....
OK, now I KNOW I'm outta the mainstream...what da hell are "wife-beaters? and even before I know, ANYTHING called wife beaters is an automatic ....NO!
its the A-neck tshirts you buy from hanes and such. Those tank top looking shirts for guys that kinda looks like a basketball jersey.
Since when did people start calling these shirts "wife-beaters"? I thought they were called "tank tops". I wear them all the time, and I'm not a wife beater nor am I gay!
I have a couple of shirts that look similiar...but they go down further on the sides, I have always called those tank tops. They come in handy when working around the house. and I'm definitely not gay.
I think they became wife beaters because anytime you watch an episode of cops(or similar show) and there is a domestic disturbance call(ie. guy beating up his girl), 9 times out of 10 the guy is wearing one of these shirts, hence it became known as a wife beater shirt. Yes I do wear them.
Ask Dr. Verne Is a wife beater shirt a sure sign the guy is decent trash? Dear Dr. Verne: We was hangin' out at the Last Stop Beer Shop the other night and saw some boys that looked like decent white trash wearin' wife beater shirts. Now they was missin' some teeth and had the shotgun rack on their truck, but we didn't think they was true white trash cause they didn't have some tattoos. Sherilee said in order to be in good style they need the shirt and tattoos on theys forearms. I say that the truck, the bottle of Beam they bought, and the gun rack said it all. So the question is, if yous see a man wearin' one of them shirts, how do you know if they's good white trash or if they is some woosie imposter? --Mavis from Ohio Dear Mavis: You is raising what us fancy ass science guys call your poignant sociological questions. Or, to say it like decent folk would, this here's some deep $#%&. Now fact is them wife beater shirts used to be what a guy might call us trash's traditional ethnic garb. That's cuz guys who wore 'em was noted for brawling with the missus, which is one of our specialties. Problem is, them guys usually had little bitsy pipes. They's muscles wasn't big enough to show off through your standard Dale Earnhardt T-shirt. Which is why wimpy trash got to inventing a shirt with no sleeves, so's the ladies wouldn't need no goddamned bloodhounds to find their muscles. But seeing how these guys wasn't your true manly sort -- fact is, the little missus could kick the %$#& outta 'em -- these pansy-assed guys from Ralph Lauren, which is a suburb of California, started wearing 'em too. That's what got everybody confused. Now these Ralph Laurens is them skinny-ass fellas who's always hanging out in magazines wearing their khaki trousers, which decent folk call tan pants. Them ain't the kinda boys quality broads like yous oughtta be pawing at. Fact is, I got 10 bucks that says they's all gathered around the big screen as we speak, watching Martha Stewart to get clued in on making them tasteful floral arrangements. If you's wanting after a real man -- the gentlemanly type who's decent enough to knock you up and maybe even show at the hospital when you pop the kid -- I got rules for that. 1. Make sure his pipes or his gut is big enough to get seen through your normal T-shirt. That way you know he ain't a Ralph Lauren or a vegetarian. 2. Make sure the brush guard on his truck got blood or deer fur on it. If he ain't ran over no deers or people, I'm figuring he's one of them designated drivers, which is Cambodian for, "Can I order that pink thing like she's drinking?" 3. Make sure he got decent homemade tattoos, like a stick figure of Pamela Anderson carved on his back. If he got a rose, a cute sea animal or the barbwire pipe tattoo, that there's scientific proof that he ain't 100 percent man. Which means you should get to kicking his ass.
Just something I found on Google Image Search/ wife-beater shirt I think the ax lends a certain "mountain man" air to him, don't you?
Wife beater's are only the undershirts...so any other shirt that is similar (muscle, tank, etc) does not count as one.
When worn as the sole shirt, they are definitely not cool. What a joke. On occasion with certain other shirts over them they can be acceptable. But when worn like the guy in the picture it's ridiculous, and anyone who wears them like that, is trying way too hard.
