I have way too many clothes like this. I prefer to go for more abstract patterns or designs that don't directly reference whatever they depict and often find that text will ruin what is otherwise an acceptable print. I sort of made my own once too; due to a bug I recieved a $300 gift card to a high end custom print website and made an all-over Okuu pattern by cutting out depictions of her from comics and collaging them together in Photoshop. I've only had a couple of people comment on these sorts of clothes where I live over the course of many years, with one being Japanese and another who thought I had a Miku shirt on. In Japan I had unique interactions because wearing clothing in the vein of pic related is a dogwhistle, for lack of a better term, of being interested in 天使界隈 or similar.
>>97451>Although it's the 'aesthetic' that's popular, not necessarily the content itself.I've recieved numerous angry comments online over the years for asking if people have watched or read the series on their clothing or listen to them if it depicts a band. People really love being posers and seem to hate having any ounce of authenticity in the way they dress.
>>97493This is the kind of thing that bothers me too. I like seeing people organically become involved with subculture, but all too often that involvement is inorganic due to social media influencer and a style over substance approach of wanting to be involved just so they can show they are. I find that the insufferable ones who yell and scream about their love for whatever are always those who recently became involved with a hobby and always on a surface level.
>>97552Cospa usually makes stuff like that, often being more feasible in-universe clothing.