Purdue U shirt from ukay-ukay

BRAND SWEAT-SHIRT. While accompanying his wife at the Taboan market one morning, a balikbayan from New York saw a rice store helper wearing a sweet-shirt marked “PURDUE” That's the name of a well known university in the US. The store helper bought it for 50 in an ukay-ukay shop. The balikbayan offered to buy it for P500 and got it.

DAD'S ALMA MATTER. The balikbayan said he was interested in the sweat-shirt because his late Dad was an alumnus of Purdue University in Indiana. The shirt was original with the labels still intact. “Dugay na kong nangita'g Purdue shirt dinhi ko pa nakit-an sa Taboan,” he told a friend, our informer.