Holy shirt!

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Be honest. Do any of you women suffer from holy shirt syndrome? I have a lot of thin cotton tee shirts, and every last one of them has an array of tiny little holes right in the front at the bottom, over the belly button area.

This is a huge mystery to me. My first thought was clothes moths, but that couldn’t be it, because why would the clothes moths only attack the same area of every tee shirt? Besides, I haven’t seen any clothes moths and none of my other clothes suffer. Belts? No, that couldn’t be it either. I never wore belts until very recently after I lost a bunch of weight because that was the only way I could get my old pants from falling off. I have had my holy shirt problem far longer than that. Someone suggested seat belts might be the culprit, but it happens even in cold weather when I’m wearing a coat and the seatbelt is not touching my tee shirt. Tucking my shirt into my pants can’t be it either because I never tuck my shirt into my pants.

Today I Googled “tiny holes at bottoms of tee shirts” and was shocked to find out this is actually a common problem and everyone else seems as mystified by it as me! For some reason I thought no one else had this problem. Anyway I found this article saying it’s caused by leaning over kitchen counters. Hmmm, I guess it’s time to start wearing an apron. Somehow I don’t believe it though. I’ve had brand new tee shirts I hung in the closet and never wore to cook anything, and somehow the holes still appear.

I don’t get it. Does anyone have a better theory of what causes this? And what can be done about it?

8 thoughts on “Holy shirt!”

  1. They say clothes are getting lower in quality. I would say it is probably counters too or maybe waist of pants rubbing against it even without it tucked in. I read somewhere our clothes are getting more commodified [dumbed down and the same] due to globalist manufacturing. The sweat shops have dropped the quality. I have a close friend where we lament the downward decline of fashion, I remember when there used to be actual style. Do you remember before the 90s where there was actually a Change in fashion. Everyone wears the same clothes as they did in the 1990s. There was no style change.

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    • I think it’s definitely to do with quality because this never used to happen until everything started being manufactured in China LOL!
      I also noticed it only happens with the thin teeshirts I like to wear (I really don’t care for thick ones) but they wear out so fast! Argh! 😦

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  2. Make sure you don’t buy T-shirts at a certain big well known extremely large billionaire owned shopping center. I heard those check out even faster. I hate how everything is manufactured overseas. I am against globalism and consider it destructive to the economy and our way of life. Yes thinner ones would be cooler, I hope you can find something of better quality.

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    • Wal-Mart? Yep, their teeshirts are like tissue paper. So are Target’s. Actually all of them are. They’re all manufactured overseas, usually in China, as cheaply as possible. Even “high end” brands like J. Crew are not very well made and are like tissue paper.

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  3. Reblogged this on Phoenix Rising From the Ashes and commented:
    I seem to suffer from a similar problem but the holes in my shirts seem to show up on the bottom back right side of my shirts! I searched for the cause and one day got my shirt caught on the edge of the play stand in my birdroom. BINGO, problem solved, right? NOPE….my shirts would get caught on both sides of the play stand but the holes only appeared on one side…..pppffftttt! Still searching for the culprit, please let me know if you find it first! Thank you 😀😀

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    • I think it’s one of life’s little mysteries we’ll never have an answer to, like why you will ALWAYS lose half a pair of socks when you do a wash, even if you know you put both socks in!

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    • I think in the back of every washing machine, there is a wormhole to another universe. In THAT universe, when they do a wash, they wind up getting extra socks!

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