The garment preview shows a dark shirt with very small, centered lowercase lettering: meh. No animal. No slogan. No exclamation point. The period is there, and the period matters. We have written before about the period after the word, and about the smallest word on the shirt. This one is different in scale. The letters…

The shirt reads LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW, and the words wrap around four smiling root vegetables — a carrot, a radish, a beet, and an onion — each drawn with its roots visible in the soil. The pun is doing two jobs at once. Root means to cheer. Roots…

There is a black-and-white speckled rectangle on the front of this shirt, and a dark binding strip runs down its left edge. Inside the rectangle, a white ruled label is headed COMPOSITION. Below that heading, an outlined ghost and an outlined pumpkin sit together on the label lines. The garment is a printed notebook cover,…

There is a period after the word. On the dark shirt, in large bold white lowercase letters, the word meh sits with a full stop at the end. That punctuation mark is the whole argument. Without it, the shirt is a sound. With it, the shirt is a sentence — a short, closed, declarative sentence…

NOT FRIENDLY DO NOT TOUCH. The words sit in warning-sign lettering, the kind you see on a loading dock or a substation fence. Above or beside them, a yellow caution triangle. Inside the triangle, a hand with a slash through it — the universal graphic for do not put your hand here. That is the…