Isn't it Ironic? Don'tcha Think? Ironic T's? Yes, I Really Do Think!

As a coda to the week's t-shirt post, I give you the ironic t-shirt--you know, the one you wear that could represent you in some way, as the Shakespeare shirt, Austen shirt, or pirate shirt represents me, but so obviously doesn't. Yesterday I ventured to campus for meetings with faculty and students, and I guess I was still feeling that awesome t-shirt vibe from the day before. I decided to wear the most ironic t-shirt I own: the bicycle t-shirt.

You might be wondering why such a shirt would be deemed ironic. Well, one who wears a shirt covered in bicycles usually has at least an affinity for the things. I don't. I don't own a bike. I don't ride a bike. I don't like to ride bicycles. As I have learned in my adult life, this body (the one I currently live in) does not like to ride the bicycle. Nothing psychoanalytic going on here. My joints, muscles, and gluteus maximus was not made for riding a bike. I learned this years ago when I rode a bike with my in-laws, had to stop the ride short, and practically be carried to the car.

So why buy a shirt with bicycles on it, then? I saw the shirt, loved it, and thought about the irony. The Alanis Morissette song danced through my head, and I realized that I had to have the shirt. Thanks to TJMaxx for selling the shirt for $7.99. I can afford to buy an $8 ironic t-shirt on a whim. Did I mention that the shirt was in the mens' department? That's not necessarily ironic, unless you're using Alanis Morissette logic.

I decided yesterday to play with the irony. I wore a style of pants once-upon-a-time called "pedal pushers." The style was called that because you wore those pants while riding a bicycle, right? :D Today, they are sometimes referred to as "capri pants" or "cropped pants." I actually own three pairs of Michael Kors cropped jeans, or pedal pushers (navy, coral, and gray!). Here's the gray pair:

Maybe it's time I get a bicycle. I have actually been thinking about trying to ride again. I even told my husband that we should try it out next summer. Then the t-shirt could sit comfortably in the drawer next to Austen and Shakespeare. But where's the irony in that? :)