‘They Just Don’t Understand’ — Vivienne Westwood Quote Tee | Wear Words Black-on-White Literary Tee — Oversized Tee

“In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.” The line stays unverified, though Vivienne Westwood did move her production to Italy in the mid-1980s, right when the joke would have written itself. It is punk economics in a sentence: luxury is a trick of making cloth testify to a price, and she loved running the trick backwards. Once you can see how worth gets signaled, you are free to stop believing the expensive thing is automatically the better one.

**AS Colour 5082 “Faded Bone” — Oversized Tee (Cream finish).** 100% carded cotton, heavyweight 240 gsm, garment-dyed — each tee fades a little differently, so no two are identical. Oversized, boxy relaxed fit, dropped shoulders, wide twin-stitched ribbed neck, side-seamed, pre-shrunk (size down for a less roomy look). Care: machine wash cold inside-out with like colors, do NOT bleach, do NOT tumble dry (line dry in the shade to protect the garment dye), cool iron inside-out (never iron the print).