Jane Galt comments on the boorishness of Americans as seen by Europe: inter alia,
They wear sweatshirts with the names of their colleges on them.
Well, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Heh.
American college sweatshirts were immensely popular in Europe in the Seventies. I used to see fake ones in Lausanne shop windows. (I knew they were fake because one of them said ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY around the seal – accurate, i believe – of the University of Illinois.) Somewhere on our family tour in 1975 we got a book of Lego designs in which the only words (other than LEGO) were UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CLARA on a child’s sweatshirt – not the school’s logo (even fake), mind you, but spelled out in custom iron-on letters!