Earlier this year, in anticipation of the upcoming World Cup, Adidas released a t-shirt featuring a buxom cartoon woman, a soccer ball, and the slogan: “Lookin’ to Score.” The shirt raised hackles in the tournament’s host country of Brazil, where locals, seeing a dehumanizing, oversexed stereotype imposed on Brazilian women once again, did not appreciate the joke. Even Dilma Rousseff, the current (and first female) president of Brazil, felt the need to weigh in, taking to Twitter to condemn the extant culture of sexual exploitation. Adidas recalled the shirt.
But this shirt, crude as it may be, is part of a long, rich history of tone-deaf work in the t-shirt game. Dumb ideas somehow regularly make it through the corporate meat grinder, down the product development garbage chute, past a team of marketing monkeys, and on to you, the consumer. Just making it past so many eyes makes these shirts incredible artifacts of bureaucratic malfunction, a point reflected in the booming secondary market for these offensive rarities.
So here are some of the best, worst t-shirts—seven of the most egregious lightweight cotton failures ever to be yanked from the shelves of your local mall.
Illustrations by Alexis Markavage
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A woman blocks the camera shotCanva
A woman rolls her eyesCanva
An angry woman looks off-cameraCanva
Two young women packing up for collegeCanva
Father and daughter hugCanva
A father and young daughter play together at the beachCanva
A father and daughter play around next to a pierCanva
A man hands over a debt collection noticeCanva
A woman holds a cell phoneCanva
A woman laughs at her cell phone
A toddler crawls towards his sisterCanva
Toddlers run down the streetCanva 
A young child smiles at his baby sisterCanva
HR woman looks at resumesCanva
Woman at works looks off into distanceCanva
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Groom kisses the bride on the foreheadCanva
A young woman gives a toast at a weddingCanva