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    The great Wet Seal t-shirt fail

    By Joanna Douglas, Senior Fashion and Beauty Editor | Fashion – Tue, Jan 25, 2011 7:13 PM EST

    This shirt is currently on sale on WetSeal.com for $16.80This shirt is currently on sale on WetSeal.com for $16.80Single people with bad grammar unite! Wet Seal is selling a new t-shirt the reads: "If Your Single, So Am I." Their website calls it a "fun and trendy tunic," because apparently not knowing the difference between your and you're is cool!

    OK, everyone makes mistakes, and perhaps this one slipped past a sloppy editor and a bunch of merchandisers who didn't notice. It's possible, right? Except ,according to reddit.com, Wet Seal was notified about the error and didn't care!

    A reddit.com user called "yourname146" says his girlfriend is a Wet Seal store manager, and when she noticed the misprinted tees she returned them to the warehouse. According to yourname146, store officials then admonished her for not putting the shirts out on the sales floor.

    So either Wet Seal doesn't care about the grammatical error, or it is deliberate. We're not sure which is worse.

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    236 comments

    • LaikaO
      LaikaO  •  7 months ago
      Um ....... would it really be any better if the word were spelled correctly?
      It's still bragging about a total lack of commitment or integrity.
      I saw it on sale next to the I'M A MOTHERF----ING SLEAZE shirts.
    • LaikaO
      LaikaO  •  7 months ago
      Um ....... would it really be any better if the word were spelled correctly?
      It's still bragging about a total lack of commitment or integrity.
      I saw it on sale next to the I'M A MOTHERF----ING SLEAZE shirts.
    • LaikaO
      LaikaO  •  7 months ago
      Um ....... would it really be any better if the word were spelled correctly?
      It's still bragging about a total lack of commitment or integrity.
      I saw it on sale next to the I'M A MOTHERF----ING SLEAZE shirts.
    • LaikaO
      LaikaO  •  7 months ago
      Um ....... would it really be any better if the word were spelled correctly?
      It's still bragging about a total lack of commitment or integrity.
      I saw it on sale next to the I'M A MOTHERF----ING SLEAZE shirts.
    • Dingbat
      Dingbat  •  8 months ago
      Is this so different from the international news agencies along with Yahoo, AOL, and others who think that there is a "C" in the word "Defense"?
    • Reilly
      Reilly  •  8 months ago
      ...And wrap your arms around her waste.
    • John
      John  •  8 months ago
      I cant help wondering... 52 million aborted children, Thank you so MUCH America, and this fluff is what you want to talk about?
    • Jessica
      Jessica  •  8 months ago
      Oh, my bad, reddit.com.
    • Jessica
      Jessica  •  8 months ago
      "Wet seal is selling a t-shirt THE reads..." If you're going to talk about another person's bad grammar, maybe you should think about improving your own first.
    • Jessica
      Jessica  •  8 months ago
      "Except ,according to wetseal.com..."
    • Jessica
      Jessica  •  8 months ago
      Maybe they just thought the error was funny somehow.
    • david
      david  •  8 months ago
      If I am not mistaken, there is a grammatical error in the title of this article since "fail" is a verb.

      Although Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary does list "fail" as an obscure noun and also cites the phrase "without fail" in which "fail" operates as a noun, the more appropriate form (because more readily parsed by the reader) is, arguably, "failure."
    • CrankyYankee
      CrankyYankee  •  8 months ago
      I never heard of 'Wet Seal" before this article.
      (Maybe this is a conspiracy to get them some publicity and the writer gets a free t-shirt?)
    • Brenda
      Brenda  •  8 months ago
      Perhaps they are making a comment on today's society? Something on the order of, "Those who are of this sentiment are also of this level of intellect..."
    • Sarah
      Sarah  •  8 months ago
      They are just shirts!!! As long as there are no swear words, or super explicit photos, who cares?
    • S
      S  •  8 months ago
      I think it's hilariously appropriate. The little tramp wearing the shirt probably has no interest in being educated, so it's fitting that her shirt would reflect it.
    • elizabeth gillam
      elizabeth gillam  •  8 months ago
      I never shopped there don't like their stuff. Now I see why.lol
    • Alana
      Alana  •  8 months ago
      who cares?
    • Alana
      Alana  •  8 months ago
      who cares?
    • Cynders
      Cynders  •  8 months ago
      Not only the fact that the grammar is incorrect... it also displays a message of "I don't mind cheating on someone" which I personally find worse than the grammatical error. Kind of like "if you're single, so am I. But if you're not and I don't have a chance, yeah, I'm taken." Not the kind of person I would display myself as. Because then I would look stupid AND kinda like I sleep around... I don't understand the people that wear these things period, spelled correctly or not...
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