Editor and journalist Kyoichi Tsuzuki, who roams the streets of the world collecting diverse lives, has carefully compiled seventy unforgettable T-shirts and seventy stories related to them.
A t-shirt that you swapped with the vocalist at a punk concert, a t-shirt with a picture you drew on it yourself, a t-shirt that smells like an ex-lover, a t-shirt that you inherited from your father and wore every day until it was worn out, a t-shirt that you bought on impulse and never wore, but still take out and look at again…
We get a glimpse into the lives and joys and sorrows of seventy people, each of whom reveals nothing other than their age, gender, occupation, and place of origin, through their own unique, unforgettable T-shirts.
As you smell the various scents that permeate the universal object of a T-shirt, you will soon find yourself thinking of something of your own that you cannot throw away.

Every time I publish a book, I get a variety of reactions.
During the "I Can't Throw Away T-Shirt" campaign, there were angry comments like, "I thought it was a cool T-shirt catalog, but it was completely different!" But even more common were messages from friends asking, "Why didn't you contact me?"
“We have one at home too!” “I wanted to wear it too!” Every time I heard that, I realized once again that there really are t-shirts that no one can throw away.
---From “On the Publication of the Korean Edition”

But even a T-shirt, which is usually just a 'throwaway' piece of underwear, has so many stories embedded in it that it becomes a unique part of you.
A sentence you come across in a book you picked up by chance, a scene from a cartoon, a line from a song on the radio can change or sustain your life, or it can be like pressing a switch that brings back forgotten memories.
I was so happy to be able to confirm that there are clothes that can move the heart like this.
---From "Every T-shirt Tells a Story"

When I was in college, I had the illusion that if I just wore band t-shirts or hobby t-shirts, people with the same hobby would talk to me and maybe I'd become popular.
But that never happened.
This t-shirt is also ineffective.
It was only recently that I realized that I couldn't become popular with just a t-shirt.
---From "David Lynch"

It's been eight years since I moved from Kobe to Tokyo.
My grandmother, who was born on November 11, 1911, is now 93 years old, and whenever she returns to her hometown, she asks me my age about once every ten minutes.
Still, he clearly remembers the story of the old Yamaguchi-gumi struggle and tells it in detail.
Next time I wear this and go to see you, will you remember me like Yamaguchi-gumi?
---From "SUMICHAN OKAERI!!!"

“You are smart, but it seems you are destined to only learn from today’s experience.
“I guess it’s a life of daily labor, earning a living?” If I think about it, my grandfather also did manual labor, and his daughter is my mother, so it may be inevitable that I was born this way.

My most pressing wish right now is that this mountain I'm climbing will be a success this time, and that my daughter won't follow in my footsteps.
By the way, my daughter, who doesn't know anything about this, wears this t-shirt to bed as pajamas.
---From "Aloha Hawaii"

The woman I met at the west exit of the subway station, Ms. Mot, was a very cute woman.
I took the money in a hurry and handed over the T-shirt.
If this developed into love and we called each other by the nickname 'Mr. Mot', it would be a little confusing, but somehow fun, and I couldn't even continue with the fantasy that the deal was over in an instant.
More than ten years have already passed since that day.
Is he still wearing his T-shirt? I'm still wearing mine.
And there's still a lot of stock left.
---From "Mr. Mot"

From the moment I first saw it, I felt like I was being drawn to America, a country that had given me the feeling of being old and had made me a foreigner, a young man who had lived a decent life up until then.
I still like it quite a bit and I usually wear it when I go out.
I think I leaned against a tree at some festival and got some pine resin on my back.

I'm a laundry fanatic, so I can remove everything from wine stains to armpit sweat that's stuck in old clothes.
But I couldn't get rid of the pine resin.
That was the first time I realized that there were things in this world that I couldn't solve on my own.
---From "Iowa"

This is the t-shirt my first boyfriend left behind when he came to my house to sleep over.
Every time I clean out my closet, I try to throw it away, but the memories are too strong to let go.
Looking at this, I try not to forget the heartbreaking memories of my first love.
I don't wear it, but I smell it sometimes.
---From "Abercrombie"

I haven't worn it once in thirty-four years.
But I can't throw it away.
Because this is the first full marathon race I've ever run since I was born.
It was also my first time going to Hawaii.
… Honolulu finisher t-shirts have gotten a lot smarter lately.
As I dig out a T-shirt from thirty-four years ago and look at it, I am overcome with nostalgia, thinking, "Those old days were so innocent."
So if you ask me if I'm going to wear it, I won't.
---From the Honolulu Marathon

I don't always think that reckless things are the best.
But if no amount of sincere advice changes my mind, and if I can take the risk on my own, this T-shirt still teaches me that it's better to fail than to quit and regret it.
It also raises the question of whether the same dreamless mind of that time is still present.
Lastly, I can't wait to make a commemorative t-shirt for this "Unthrowable T-shirt."

---From the "Review"