12 Chic Sweatshirts That Will Make You LOL

Sep 09, 2014

When is the last time your clothes made you laugh… in a good way? The stylish folks at Bow & Drape let their community have fun with their fashion with the option to customize it with lettering, embroidery and beading galore. It’s like DIY except someone else is doing it for you. As much as we love DIY, if someone else wants to do it sometimes, we won’t stop them. Here are some of the funniest sweatshirt finds from the Bow & Drape community so you can laugh and look good doing it. Oh, and did we mention you can enter to win a $750 Bow & Drape gift card so that you can purchase all of the lovelies below? Because you totally can.

1. Tequila Mockingbird: No offense, Harper Lee, but your literary genius was a pun-tastic opportunity for a happy hour sweatshirt.

2. Just in Queso: Queso is ALWAYS a good idea. No. The best idea. If melted cheese isn’t your first choice for lunch/dinner/snack, it should always be a back up plan. Finally, someone gets it.

3. Gone With the Gin: Can there ever be too many literary/booze puns? Maybe there’s something to be said for that oft quoted mantra, “Write drunk. Edit sober.”

4. Blood Sweat Sequins: It’s about time this saying got an update. If we had a nickel for every time we lost a sequin when we were in a bind, we’d buy so many more sequins.

5. Sweet Dreams Are Made of Cheese: You can do research on your dreams to find out what your subconscious is trying to tell you. We’ve looked everywhere, but we can’t find any explanation for dreaming of clouds made of brie or raining mozzarella.

6. Rexecellent: Dinosaur humor — it never gets old.

7. Goal Digger: We’ve got mad ambition, and we’re getting our own gold, one goal at a time thank-you-very-much.

8. Stay Weird: If weird means loving unicorns and sparkles long after leaving middle school, then consider us as weird as they come.

9. Keeper: This could be an adorable casual look for an engagement photoshoot. After all, your fiancé knows it’s true.

10. Sorry Not Sorry: Finally, this hashtag is emblazoned on apparel. Becoming an Urban Dictionary entry is one thing, but when you’re on a sweatshirt, you know you’ve made it.

11. As If: Feeling a little ’90s? Why don’t you pair this one with some acid wash denim and Keds?

12. Word: It’s a word with so many meanings. It can be said in agreement to mean “OK, cool.” It can be said as a statement of disbelief to mean “No way!” Or it can be said on a sweatshirt to look effortlessly cool.

Did you know you can win $750 from Bow & Drape to upgrade your fall wardrobe? It’s true. Enter to win and let us know what your first purchase would be!

"Challengers" Review: Zendaya's Nuanced Performance Solidifies Her As An Oscar Contender

The first few trailers for Zendaya's Challengers hooked me with the promise of a steamy love triangle and plenty of drama on and off the tennis court. I can now confidently say this is one of the best movies of the year — if not Zendaya's entire career. The film (which just nabbed a 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score) explores love and passion in a totally different way than I expected. And while it engages your senses, more than anything, it makes you feel.

"Challengers" Is A Fully Emotional Experience

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Challengers (directed by Luca Guadagnino) is a full experience thanks to the visuals, sound design, and score. The first 10 minutes alone will make you want to re-enter your tennis era, and the vibrant feel of Challengers makes everything from a American college campus to a backyard feel like the Italian coast.

This backyard is where we see Mike Faist's Art, Josh O'Connor's Patrick, and Zendaya's Tashi truly mesh for the first time. Both Art and Patrick want Tashi's number, but while she's curious, she's not so sure she should offer it up. They spend time talking about tennis and college, and later that night, Tashi promises her number to the one that wins their match, rather than the one that catches her eye or moves her. It's a telling choice that has major ramifications later on in the story. Tashi just wants to watch drama unfold, especially if it makes the boys' tennis more emotional (she, as the kids say, loves mess).

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From this point on, Tashi, Patrick, and Art move as a unit, even when their relationships end. Tashi's at the helm, and while she's definitely the mastermind, she's more like their North Star than a leader giving them direct orders. Patrick and Art follow her light over the course of the next 13 years, to a Challengers tournament that pits the estranged friends against each other.

It's very clear what both men think about her, and the smallest details reinforce they are in love. (For instance, at one of Tashi's early matches, their eyes linger on her even after she's hit the ball, while she barely moves a muscle to keep up with their match later in the movie).

"Challengers" Is More About The Characters Than Tennis

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Even though all three leads are fully-formed, individual characters (with wildly different personalities, might I add), they switch places at any given point in the story to fill each other's emotional shoes. One moment, Art is hopeful, Tashi is calculated, and Patrick is driven. The next Tashi is entirely focused on tennis, Art is willing to bend the rules of right and wrong to get what he wants, and Patrick is left in their wake. You can never truly root for one person before the tables are turned, but despite it all, the tension between them always leaves you wanting more.

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While the movie has a number of tennis matches (which means an endless amount of tennis grunts), the most impactful moments for me are the quiet ones. We know Art and Patrick are in love with Tashi, but we're never quite sure what Tashi thinks about herself.

The Spider-Man actress brings a nuance to the character we haven't seen from her before, and there's a cautious tenderness to the moments where Tashi's back is facing another character, or where she's standing alone. You can almost see the gears turning in her head. "Almost" is the most important word because Challengers is full of "almosts": Tashi almost apologizes, Art almost chooses himself over everyone.

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Challengers is full of open-ended emotions that serve as an exploration of human nature in all its complicated, manipulative, dreamy glory. It's a movie about passion and love and desire — and it's one that leaves you wondering who, or what, the object of that desire is.

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Theresa Nist Shares Her Honest Thoughts About Getting Divorced From Gerry Turner

We can't believe that the first season of The Golden Bachelor and the subsequent wedding are over! Where did the time go?! We thought Golden Bachelor, Gerry Turner, and winner of the show, Theresa Nist, would've drifted off into happily ever after, but we guess life had other plans for them since they're now getting divorced. It's certainly heartbreaking given how much they enjoyed spending time together, but only they know what's best for them!

Here's everything we know about their divorce following their publicized The Golden Bachelor wedding!

Theresa Nist Speaks Out About The End Of "The Golden Bachelor" Marriage

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Theresa Nist took to Instagram to share her thoughts about the end of her marriage to Gerry Turner. She's aware that everyone has opinions about what happened, but she's asking for people to be considerate as they navigate a new process. She partially wrote, "For everyone else who is confused and angry and who does not understand, please try to find it in your heart to understand and to try a little kindness...Sometimes things don’t go the way you planned and that’s okay."

It seems like she's doing her best to remain positive in light of everything that's happened. We can only imagine how scary it is to open yourself up to love in the public eye and become the topic of everyone's conversation.

"The Golden Bachelor" Couple Are Ending Their Marriage

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Just when we thought things were working well for "The Golden Bachelor" couple, they decided to announce the end of their short-lived marriage on Good Morning America. Gerry Turner told host Juju Chang, "Theresa and I have had a number of heart-to-heart conversations, and we’ve looked closely at our situation, our living situation, so forth and -- and we’ve kind of come to the conclusion mutually that it’s probably time for us to -- dissolve our marriage."

Theresa Nist clarified that she doesn't want the people who rooted for them to believe love and marriage are hopeless. "We want none of that to change for anybody," she said.

We're sure that they truly had a connection, but it's not easy trying to navigate merging your life with someone no matter how old you are. It seems that Gerry and Theresa couldn't bear the thought of one of them being separated from their families, ultimately resulting in the tough decision that getting married may not have been the best thing to do.

We hope that they take as much time as they need to continue navigating their decision to end their public marriage.

"The Golden Bachelor" Blended Family Went On "Celebrity Family Feud"

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Gerry and Theresa's newly-blended family revealed that they filmed an episode of Celebrity Family Feud in early April – and their opposing team wasn't that unfamiliar!

Theresa's daughter Jen posted some behind-the-scenes photos on Instagram, noting that the family went up against more Bachelor Nation members like Joey Graziadei, Kelsey Anderson, Charity Lawson, Dotun Olubeko, Zach Shallcross, and Kaity Biggar for their episode of Celebrity Family Feud.

Jen also gave us loose details about when the episode would officially air, writing in the caption of her Instagram post: "you’ll have to watch to see how it went down but no I’m not really sure when it’s going to be on… August?!"

Gerry posted a little preview too, saying that he "had a GREAT time at Celebrity Family Feud with the blended family."

Gerry's daughter Angie seemed super excited about being on Celebrity Family Feud as well, writing in her Instagram post that her dreams were fulfilled being on the show.

"Since I was little I wanted to be on family feud," she wrote. "I would dream about it and assemble my team in my mind. Yesterday…it happened!!!! We played celebrity family feud!!! It was so much fun."