Wearing Irreverent Breast Cancer T-shirts

There are many brands of “pink ribbon” t-shirts on the market … but few of them resonate with younger men and women, teens and twenty-somethings, most of whom haven’t been touched by breast cancer yet.

Quite frankly, those young guns are in need of a breast cancer awareness boost — awareness about early detection, awareness about treatment and survivorship, awareness of the seriousness of the cause. (Without ramming seriousness down their throats, of course. Marketing to that demographic requires a little irreverence.)

I myself sport a ‘Save the Ta-tas’ t-shirt from time to time (yes, that’s me in that photo!). If you’re interested in in putting one a t-shirt for the cause and reaching a younger generation, here are a few links my favorites irreverent t-shirt for the cause:

You can order:

• A Save the Ta-tas shirt like mine the website says they’ve donated $179,000 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to date.
• A Charitees t-shirt from The Ryde, sporting all the names for breasts the artist could think of — he was the winner of their design contest, the one I posted about in April — proceeds benefiting Boarding for Breast Cancer.
• A Feel Your Boobies tee: Profits from merchandise sales and donations made to the Feel Your Boobies® Foundation are used to fund their annual Boobies Awareness Campaign.
• A Save 2nd Base t-shirt — 50% of their profits benefit the Kelly Rooney Foundation.

(Image: Karen Lynch)