First, to define the “soft T-shirt”: a short-sleeved shirt bearing hip, nonspecific insignia (i.e., old rec-team jerseys, colorful ones bought in tourist way stations, those recalling hair-band tours ...) whose 99% cotton fabric has been reduced to a sheetlike thickness, with a feeling reminiscent of pure silk. Like stalactites, these "soft T-shirts" must be formed over time, from years of fabric polishing against skin, from countless washes, from wadded, trampled abuse. Ultimately they are sold to various vintage-clothing stores, most notably Buffalo Exchange on the Drag, which stocks four whole racks of "soft T-shirts" in a rich panoply of colors and styles. Their vintage-wardrobe experts arbitrarily price these shirts from $6 to an exorbitant $20 ... yet with something that only gets better with age, this is a bargain.
