I honestly can’t think of what the “No good Awful Terrible Really Bad Horrible Shirt” might be. He’s worn subtle pink plaids before, I remember. A hint on the episode or season to look for this? I have to see it now.

safiyabat:

themegalosaurus:

peanutbutterandbananasandwichs:

themegalosaurus:

caranfindel:

hearseeno:

safiyabat:

I got this from the superwiki site.  It’s a promotional pic from “Metamorphosis.”  

I want to salt and burn this shirt.  

LOL! That’s really funny how one shirt can inspire so many strong reactions.

Cuz, I love that shirt.

I love the fact that whoever designed it used the backside of the fabric and we’re seeing only the hints of what is underneath – and this seems appropriate for Season 4 Sam.

I love that it’s white and red – purity and danger/blood combined – also appropriate for Season 4 Sam.

I love that it’s basically “Fuck you” Pink in the context of Dean doing so much of that I’m the older brother “Samantha” and “You’re a red-headed woman” kind of teasing.

I love that Sam either is so desperate for shirts that fit, is so damn logical/practical, or has no discriminating taste whatsoever that he couldn’t care less what’s on it as long as it does what it’s supposed to do.

And then, I love it’s construction – its placket front and lack of give in the woven cotton fabric that meant Sam had to stretch his arms up over his head to pull it on

safiyabat

and themegalosaurus need to admit this shirt is awesome.

ahahaha I LOVE that there is meta about the pink swirly shirt

You need to call out sweetsamofmine as well. I think she and safiyabat hate it more than I do! (I do think it is a very very bad shirt) (but some of his others are even worse) (brown and grey and orange thick stripes and pointy pockets SAMMY NOOO)

Wait, are you talking about this shirt?!

Because that is my favourite Sammy shirt of all (v-necks not withstanding of course!) I just love the fact that its survived all the way from S3 (A Very Supernatural Christmas is its first appearance I think?). Apparently I have equally as bad a taste in clothes as Sam. The "No good Awful Terrible Really Bad Horrible Shirt" however can burn in hell for all eternity

Ahahaha I’m sorry yes that was exactly the shirt I meant!! I think it’s horrible!!! But that’s fine. To each their own. (I prefer a tasteful plaid or ideally a nice figurehugging sweater)

I love the fact that Sam makes terrible fashion choices.  

I mean, I’m sure that it is a real challenge to be his size and thrift shopping for a lot of your clothing and have to just kind of take what you can get.  But I also don’t get the sense that he cares what goes on his body as long as it does its job.  (I dress roughly the same way to be honest.)  

But he does tend to have some truly eye-scarring garments.  And the No-Good Awful Terrible Really Bad Horrible Shirt is one of them.  Maybe someone can ask what happened to it at NJ Con?

*snicker*  Oh, yeah.  There’s all kind of meta about clothing in Supernatural.  I may have even charted colors worn by Sam and Dean in the first 3 seasons in a fit of flu-enduced OCD.  See?

All based on analysis of how Supernatural uses color as a thematic motif:

It all got started with Bowtrunckle’s observation that Yellow was showing up as a reference to things associated with the Yellow-Eyed Demon – and later all things supernatural. I’ve pretty much stopped following the discussion since the end of Season 4, but Zimshan picked up the discussion and changed my mind about the use of green as referring to fate and red/white/blue instead referencing choice/free will.   Once the angels were introduced it was Blue/Yellow all over the place in reference to them (e.g., Hael’s outfit and the ubiquitous yellow/blue Sandover outfits). 

Supernatural Color Wheel and Spnematrography’s color tag

And so Sam and Dean’s wardrobe started moving toward more green and blue into season 3 (sacrifice + fate) as the myth arc starts to unfold.  Sam’s wardrobe slowly moved away from neutrals to a mix of green/blue and more frequent incidences of yellow and red, echoing his side of the myth arc journey.

I’ve seen other meta on Dean’s wardrobe as an indicator of his mental state, as in how many layers he wears and when he’s comfortable getting out of the layers (i.e., always in all layers laying atop his bed after returning from Hell and in later in Season 9 versus the dead-guy’s robe in Season 8 and Season 1-3? stripped down and under the covers to sleep).

There are all other kinds of visual motifs that pop up with consistent thematic references.  Flowers -> secrets/something hidden, bridges -> connections, doors -> choices, bars/slats/dividers -> being caged, just to name a few.  There’s been some great discussion of motifs, placement and shot angles at spnematography if you’re interested.

Aren’t you glad you asked.  😛