Oregon- According to the official state slogan, Oregonians love dreamers.
But according to a T-shirt selling off the racks of a major U.S. retailer, they also love strippers.
“Come for the fishing,” goes the T-shirt’s slogan. “Stay for the strip clubs.”
After a summer in stores, the $18 tee proved the top national seller among 50 state-themed shirts sold by Hot Topic, according to the company, a mall retailer that gears its edgy apparel for teens. With dwindling stock, the shirt remains hard to find in the company’s seven Oregon outlets.
It turns out there’s truth to the T-shirt’s slogan, dreamed up by a worker at the 628-store retailer’s outlet at Washington Square: The state has an abundance of strip clubs.
Long thought the per-capita leader for strip venues, Oregon has 93 such clubs, or 2.6 per 100,000 residents — second to West Virginia’s 53 clubs, or 2.9 per 100,000 residents. Other states, led by Texas and Florida, have bigger overall club totals.
Either way, Hot Topic’s racy tee is moving like a dollar bill at a bachelor party.
But the slogan doesn’t bother Todd Davidson, chief executive for the state’s tourism board.
“It starts by encouraging people to come for the fishing, and that’s year-round,” he said. “I guess the other thing isn’t seasonal either.”
It could’ve been worse. Consider California’s “Break me off a piece of that” and Washington’s “Way less murders than Washington, D.C.”