Assuming the Sorbonne students wear tshirts with their university name across the chest, where is the best place to purchase one? Is there a campus book store that would carry these?

Hi W,

Nearly every souvenir shop in Franc will have tee or sweatshirts with "Sorbonne" on it.

The Sorbonne is not one of the Grandes Écoles.

However, students dont wear them and don't really refer to their university as La Sorbonne but rather Paris I, II or III.

Thanks for the quick replies. So, apparently a Sorbonne tshirt is just a tourist thing. Maybe we will scrap that idea. Do European college students wear tshirts with their college logo or name on them or is that an American thing?

WLS- The "Universite de Paris" shirts/sweatshirts are definitely a tourist thing. I compare them to going to NY and getting a I heart NY shirt. Know the one I mean?

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Do European college students wear tshirts with their college logo or name on them or is that an American thing?
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generally no but you do see it occasionally. there are no stickers for car windows as you commonly see in america.

Europeans generally eschew group uniforms including university t-shirts, unless it has something to do with royalty or aristocracy.

I have some t-shirts with advertising and I use them in summer as PJ's... they have to pay me for going on the streets with ads...no matter universitary or not !!

French students like to wear sweatshirts with American college names on them (real or imagined). They wouldn't be caught dead wearing those tourist "Sorbonne" shirts.

<i>Europeans generally eschew group uniforms including university t-shirts, unless it has something to do with royalty or aristocracy.</i>

Germans are the notable exception. They love uniforms.

When we ate at "Stars & Stripes" in Monte Carlo the servers had on "Old School Milwaukee" shirts. We laughed because we are from the Milwaukee area. When we asked the server about it, she had no idea where it was or what it meant.

Carry on!

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I never wore a Tshirt with the name of my university on it when I was in university in the US, either, and no one I know did. That was in the 60s, though. I do wear a couple now to the gym that I still have from 30 years ago, however.

Some of the tourist SOrbonne Tshirts don't even have the real name of the university or its real "logo" on them, as I recall. I actually think they are not as common as they used to be, general Paris Tshirts seem more common now than the Sorbonne ones.

I actually don't understand why someone would wear a Tshirt to a place they did not go to school. I did go to the Sorbonne and actually still have a couple from about 20 years ago that I wear sometimes at home, but I never wore them in Paris, that's for sure.

We wanted a Sorbonne t-shirt as a gift for DD. But while in Paris, we couldn't find a single one. No sweatpants or flannel pants, either. There is no huge bookstore there, like on US campuses. We did find a U of Paris t-shirt in a small tourist shop.

There isn't that esprit de corps about the state universities, I suppose. It's possible some of the more entrepreneurial grandes écoles might have such things on sale to their students, but the grander they are, the less likely (I'd imagine) that is, and the more restricted the distribution.

UCLA shirts were very popular with Dutch girls some years back. I asked one girl if she knew what UCLA is. She replied "ookla!" OTOH, my daughter came back from Universidad Salamanca with an appropriately branded sweat shirt. WTH, I have my Beaune T-shirt and a few others. Go for it.

"Assuming the Sorbonne students wear tshirts with their university name across the chest"

They don't !

<< OTOH, my daughter came back from Universidad Salamanca with an appropriately branded sweat shirt. >>

So did I. Bought it at the official university store, not a tourist store.

Franklin & Marshall t-shirts were all the rage in Italy a few years ago.

Keith and I were highly amused when we were in Rome because we have friends in Philly who graduated from F/M.

We counted at least 10 when we were in Trastevere.

What a nightmare!!

Coucou,
Thin

It is like wearing a Harvard T-shirt, rarely does someone who went to Harvard wear one.