5 Ways to Wear Your Graphic Tshirt

I almost called this post "5 Ways to Wear Your Los Pollos Hermanos Tshirt" because I've seen SO many people wearing it lately! Band wagon jumpin' right here. #sorrynotsorry

Oh graphic tshirts. We all have them. Tshirts scrawled with the names of our favourite bands, cities we've visited, our school or university, sports teams, events that we took part in, funny slogans. If you're anything like me, you love the idea of wearing graphic tshirts and get excited about the idea of wearing them, but more often than not they end up being lazy Sunday attire or replacements pajamas.
My love affair with graphic tshirts started when I was 14. And continued for 3 years. Throughout the end of high school and my first year of college, they were all I wore. I used to go to gigs at least once a month and I would always always get a tshirt (my other favourite thing to do was to wear band tshirts to gigs. Not the band I was going to see, of course, but similar bands to make me look cool). I remember my first one, that generic Green Day American Idiot tshirt with the hand grenade. I was 14 and just making that awkward transition from pop music into pop punk (and finally into emo by the time I was 15). I absolutely loved it. Then there was the Fall out Boy tshirt for my 16th Birthday, and many, many My Chemical Romance tshirts (I have 5 at last count) and dozens of other tshirts for bands that I had gone to see.  I always loved that graphic tshirts were a talking point. An invitation to incite conversation. Especially as an insecure, emo teenager, there was something about emblazoning the things you liked on your chest that made you feel part of a group.
I digress.
Everyone has graphic tshirts, but they're not always the easiest thing to "dress up". They tend to lend themselves to denim, and that's awesome, but I love to think out of the box with graphic tshirts (in fact, I was surprised to see how many outfits on this blog have included them. The outfits at the bottom are just a small selection!). So when I spotted a girl wearing this Los Pollos Hermanos tshirt a few weeks ago, I knew I had to have one. I've since since a dozen people wearing them, and it brings me back to that sense of solidarity of being 16. It's a universal "hey, you watch Breaking Bad, so do I. That's awesome"
Anyway, I told myself if I was going to buy this tshirt, I had to think of 5 ways to wear it. I don't wear tshirts too often so I wanted to make sure it was an investment. So after a long-list of 20+ outfits, I ended up with these 5.

Outfit One- Coloured Jeans and Converse

jeans- New Lookconverse- Converseleather jacket- H&M

Okay, I know you don't need me to tell me how to wear jeans and a tshirt, but I thought red jeans made this outfit a little more interesting, and converse and a leather jacket make it a little more smarter than a standard jeans, tshirt, hoodie combo (a favourite of mine at college)

Outfit Two- girls skirt and heels

skater skirt- Matalannecklace- Zalandoheels- Marks and Spencers One of my favourites of the set. This is the perfect outfit for a casual drink (it's actually what I wore yesterday, minus the heels). A cute, high-waisted skater skirt is a great way to make the tshirt look cute and girly and I added heels for extra sophistication. I'd feel comfortable wearing this for dinner or a date.
Outfit Three- Floral skirt skirt- Vintageflats- DuneWithout realising, the colours of this skirt match perfectly with the colours in the tshirt! This strikes me as a kind of holiday outfit, or a warm day chilling out. I would have put sandals on but I haven't painted my toenails yet! I just wore this with ballet flats, but heels as in the outfit before works. This is a bit more fun in terms of almost-print mixing. I reckon this would work with black tights and a leather jacket for winter too.
Outfit Four- Leopard pencil skirt, leather jacket leopard pencil skirt- Oasisleather jacket-H&Mnecklaces- Zalando and Topshopboots- c/o Clothing at TescoI wasn't 100% sure at first if this outfit worked, but now I really liked it. A lot of the attention is gone from the tshirt here, but I think it's much more interesting than a plain shirt! I would wear this to a bar and maybe even a casual club.

Outfit Five- Leather Skirt and Major Heels

leather pencil skirt- c/o Lavish Alice

boots- Boohoo

I actually wore an outfit veryyy similar to this on a night out a few months ago, but with my Rolling Stones tshirt and leopard print boots (I couldn't find them for these photos!). I also added red lipstick after a bit of a meltdown over not being able to find it! I would definitely wear this for a club, plus it's a great conversation starter!

Some of my other favourite outfits based around graphic tshirts...

Inamorati Anonymous

Casual Friday

Just because I'm Nerdy and my Friends are Thirty

29

Day with Daddy

Someone's got the answer, I'd rather think there's nothing to be found

Fight off your Demons

What I wore and what I didn't

New Jersey

Like a Rolling Stone

And for lolz, let's have a couple of photos of emo Charlotte shall we?

How do you like to wear your graphic tshirts? Which are your favourite ones?

Charlotte x

edit: Someone asked me about the sizing of my Los Pollos Hermanos tshirt. The sizings on ebay seemed really small so I went for a 10 and it's perfect. I'm usually an 8-10 in tops so if you're between sizes go for the bigger size.