Oldest functional T ... whatcha got?

Looking through my drawers - not my underwears pervies (Hi Ace!) - I noticed a lot of my everyday, afterwork T-shirts were rather old.
Still functional, some wear, but acceptable to make a quick trip to Wal-mart or Home Depot or mow the grass. I have T-shirts that are 15 years old... several from college and a few from summer jobs.

My oldest is from the fall of 1992. Faded, but still comfy and the logos are readable.

What do you have?

 

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Little 'hack has a hand-me-down Bama shirt from fifth grade (circa 1985-86). The oldest one still in my rotation is probably a Mardi Gras shirt from '99.

 

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I got an old Bama shirt Mrs. TBF got me shortly after we got married in 99.

 

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Unfortunately, I'm old enough and usually purge through old shirts enough so that I don't have any college leftovers. Besides, my pro teams are too new for them to be that old.

I did keep one shirt from my marching band days until a couple of years ago. While it was supposed to be white, it turned mostly red after some jerk threw a blunt object at me from the stands at a road game. I didn't notice until after the game that it left me a bloody mess (really ... not a British term in this case).

Otherwise, all I have is a marching band sweatshirt that I stored in my boxes in the basement. That was before I hit physical puberty, so it's a little small these days.

 

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I've got one from The Cars '82 tour. I didn't even go to the show - friends bought it for me. Second oldest is a long-sleeved t from the Beastie Boys '86 tour.

 

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Hmmm. I've got quite a few from 1987-89 or so that still get the job done.

My beloved go-to Colgate T-shirt finally gave up the ghost maybe a year ago. It was 13 or so.

Reminds me of the scene in Heartbreakers (1984 version) where Nick Mancuso finally burns the T-shirt that Blue (PeterCoyote) has been wearing throughout.

 

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Oldedst? Really?

Anyhoo, I have socks that are about 20 years old, and a tie from back in college.

 

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First triathlon long-sleeved T from 1988. And a T-shirt from summer camp that same year.

 

Happy now?

 

Not a t-shirt, but I have -- and still wear -- the first pair of combat boots the Army ever issued me. 13 years old this fall.

 

Outing alert: T_B_F is Hawkeye Pierce.

 

I am now, at least, in the Army's Medical Corps.