Every Shirt LXII: Dissection - Reaper longsleeve

shirt: Dissection longsleeve
size: XL (EU)
vintage: 2005
provenance: catalog

Ordered at the same time as yesterday's shirt, this one is a little larger, and has the distinction of being the first shirt I wore to Wacken. This turned out to be quite prudent, not having a jacket, as the weather was quite shitty by turns in 2005, and despite my general distaste for long sleeves, being able to pull them down was useful in a few instances.

This was also the only shirt I wore at Wacken 2005, which by the time I got back to the Dresden streetcar system, had me seriously concerned that I was going to get arrested for causing a public disturbance just by sitting there and stinking. Subsequent years have been less vile, but subsequent years also have not included a six-hour inter-city train ride after Hamburg.

Every Shirt XIV: Dissection

shirt: Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
size: XL (EU)
vintage: 2001
provenance: catalog

Secured in an order in the winter of early 2001 and almost immediately consigned to a drawer, this shirt's primary historical role has been as a marker of how fat I am. Currently, the answer is 'medium'; I can fit into it, but it's still tight around the gut, unlike when I was in grad school, walking 50 miles a week and subsisting on generally less than 1800 calories a day. As might be expected, I'd rather the shirt fit better, but I have a car now and no economic imperative towards starvation, so this might take a while.

Though I did my first W:O:A in a Dissection shirt because I hadn't built my kutte yet, it wasn't this one; for reasons of fit and logistics I didn't take this shirt to Germany. The Dissection shirt that has been in the mud over there was a longsleeve (viz my prior advice), and will be covered some weekend in the future.