Monogrammed Sweaters

Who says Laverne has a monopoly on wearing monogrammed sweaters? With today’s PixieTip, she no longer does. Oh and if you are wondering who I am talking about then I have two thoughts. First, you have just made me feel extremely old — shame on you! Second, I can’t believe how often I watched that show. Laverne was half of the old sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” about two single, female brewery workers living on their own in Milwaukee and she wore — you guessed it — monogrammed sweaters. Now you can be just like Laverne … minus the brewery/Milwaukee part.

Sidenote. Seriously, how crazy was it that we had such limited choice in TV programming. I watched Laverne & Shirley so much that I could probably still sing the theme song. Man, am I glad I now have DVR and decent cable shows. I might as well have grown up in the age of horse & buggy. Back to monograms. I had no idea that J. Crew did monograms. Maybe you did but I know I’m not alone. It’s a brilliant idea on their part. It costs $10 to get one and probably costs them $0.50 to program a machine to sew your monogram on to an existing sweater.

Laverne & Shirley — for those with less wrinkles than meNow, $10 might seem like a lot of money to some but if you’re putting it on one of their $145 thin cashmere sweaters, it’s a relative bargain. You can also get button down shirts monogrammed and they appear to also do it on their version of the wife beater T-shirt — wait is that unPC to refer to it as such in print?? I’m betting “yes” but since I wear them all of the time and I am a wife, I guess I never really thought about it before. (Kelly, um, it’s the husband who beats the wife in said t-shirt, goober!)But yet I digress, I’m thinking that a monogram on one of those T-shirts would be weird. Or maybe it would actually be funny to have the contrast of a prim and proper monogram on a shirt commonly referred to as an unPC term that I heretofore will no longer use — in print. How’s that for a lawyer’s daughter?