When I turned 40, I had the idea to thrift an Over The Hill t-shirt in a large size, then tailor it to be very close fitting. I found an appropriate shirt fairly quickly, but decided I'd keep looking for something better. Then I didn't find any more.
Then I forgot about the project.
For years.
When I remembered, world health was such that I did not want to spend time in thrift stores, so I looked online. I quickly discovered that classic, straightforward (with 1990s design) Over The Hill shirts aren't super cheap, and modern Over The Hill shirts are more likely to be that verbosely hyperspecific typography in a blender style that I am not the target market for.
Then I started playing around with iron-on letters. One of the sets of letters, acquired second hand, was obviously two sets of the same style and color, so I figured there were enough letters to spell anything, so I sorted out the needed letters, trimmed them close, and tacked them to graph paper
