#I don't know what you expected from this question asdhfkldasjfklgasjd

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This is very late, but on the off chance that you’ll be bored at work again today, I’m just going to leave this here: thoughts on the Guild tank vs the di Marzio tank, YES this is important...which is your favourite? //tenderbri ✨

This ask is SO important thank you @tenderbri for not hesitating to bring up the tough subjects to discuss!

The DiMarzio tank is my favorite BUT the Guild tank is a more important landmark moment in the timeline of Brian Wearing Tanks. 

The DiMarzio tank just looks better on Brian. The wider straps and narrower neckline fit his body better - it makes him look broader and more a bit more muscled, something which I think @hammer-2-fall and I have discussed in the past? But I’m too lazy to go digging through my tags to find the exact post where this came up before. 

In contrast, the Guild tank actually makes Brian look scrawnier. The straps fall slightly higher on his shoulders so they don’t emphasize them the same, and the wider scoop of the neckline (while allowing for a lovely glimpse of his collarbones) means that when he moves the tank often bunches around his chest and arms and makes it look like it doesn’t quite fit him correctly. 

I also think Brian preferred the style of the DiMarzio tank over the Guild one - with the exception of one (1) picture from the One Vision photo shoot and a few very brief moments in the music video, Brian always wears the Guild tank underneath another shirt. In contrast the DiMarzio tank is always worn by itself and, as I continue to bring up every time the tanks get discussed, was also worn a full year later at Freddie’s 40th birthday party while the Guild tank seems to have vanished after the One Vision sessions. 

There is, of course, the very real possibility that Brian preferred the DiMarzio tank because it was originally a t-shirt that Brian cut the sleeves off of (like he did with the Elvira shirt on The Works tour the previous year) and if that’s true then, technically, the Guild tank is the first tank top that Brian wears that actually started out it’s life as a tank top. And for that reason alone I am contractually obligated to love it A Lot (even if the DiMarzio tank is still my Absolute Favorite, not just of the One Vision tanks but of any tank tops or fake tanks that Brian ever wore... with the exception of the Yale tank from ‘93 but yall already know how I feel about that ahfkldasjkl).

(Send me "Thoughts on...?” asks and I’ll ramble about whatever you want!)