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Graduates Need to “T” It Up

I still have my Graduation Class t-shirt and it has been over 20 years since I graduated! More than a piece of fabric, a graduation class shirt is a memory, a token from a time when much happened in your life.

Whether you are graduating from junior school, secondary school, or college you will have a class t-shirt. Whether it is a group of seniors who design it in school colors or if it is a custom class shirt, you will be glad you ordered your shirt.

Valuable Memories

So many people let life pass them by and don’t want to spend money on things they perceive as not valuable. True you may not be wearing your class t-shirt as a fashion statement to the academy awards but some day you will be rummaging around in your box of old things and find that shirt.

Our children love to see memorabilia from our youth, it allows them somehow to connect with us as they imagine what we were like when we where “rebellious” teenagers. Imagine not being able to have this experience with your quickly growing up child, which is what you will miss if you do not have the foresight to purchase a graduation class t-shirt.

It may sound like a lot of drama for a t-shirt but it is so much more than that. Memories of our youth are fleeting; so much happens that is significant in that time of our lives yet so much continues to happen that we can forget. A memory trigger is what the t-shirt becomes and when seen, the memories come flooding back.

Choose one for you

There are as many styles of t-shirts as there are schools with Senior Classes who are getting ready to graduate, maybe more. You can choose to have a custom class t-shirt or just a standard Senior Class T-shirt. Perhaps you want to be identified with your classmates and you are not that close to graduating. It is OK; you can still have your own Class T-Shirt.

Class t-shirts help to promote unity, a team spirit that helps kids work together instead of picking on one another and tearing each other down. Young people of today have enough pressure on them without having to worry about if they are allowed to have a t-shirt like their friends.

Talk with your parents, save your money, and make sure you get a Graduation Class t-shirt, you wont’ regret it no matter how little you actually wear it.