#2 - T-Shirt

He walked by wearing a red t-shirt that said "Casualty is on the way."
His red t-shirt read "Casualty is on the way."
I guess you can't do a whole lot with t-shirts, can you?
His t-shirt screamed. No.
His t-shirt proclaimed. No.
T-shirts are not animate objects; they can not be active players, they can not DO things.
You can say:
The t-shirt fell off the rack. The t-shirt fell.
The t-shirt hung limply around his skinny torso. The t-shirt hung.
The t-shirt draped loosely across the chair. The t-shirt draped.
I draped the t-shirt loosely across the chair. This time it is I who do the draping. The t-shirt is the object of the draping.
He looked uncomfortable in his skin. He wore a red t-shirt that said in big black letters "Casualty is on the way." I wondered what that meant. I suppose Casualty was the name of his band, it was too specific and negative to be related to some travelling Christian group. In the past we had "Visualize Todd." Visualize Casualty was too much of a stretch.
What did he want? He wanted to get to work on time. He worked at Dobado Software in Seattle, a leading maker of graphics software.
He worked at Dobado Software in Seattle as a tester for their PhotoReality software, the world leader in digitial photo manipulation.
His trade was quality assurance. No one says that.
He worked as a tester in the quality assurance group at Dobado Software.
He tested digital photo software at Dobado, a big software firm in Seattle.