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Article: Classic bowling shirts spare no tackiness
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 5, 1989
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The ultimate bowling shirt may be the one sponsored by a funeral
home with a logo depicting an arm, bowling ball in hand, reaching out
of a half-open casket.
It is typically crude, delightfully tacky and distinctly proud
of itself.
Tacky as this and other bowling shirts may be, they have a few
saving graces. They are unfailingly good humored, they are
unpretentious and their embroidery is often winsome.
Bowling shirts also are in sufficient decline so that they evoke
a twinge of nostalgia.
The classic bowling shirt has always been redolent of the
working class. Sponsoring establishments depicted on the back were
not exactly banks or law firms. They were auto-body shops, pizza ...