BerniceC: Don't confuse the quality of your T-shirt with the quality of the screen printing and inks used for it. A lot of screen printed things don't give the proper care for washing them. Also, if there's puff ink on it, it has to be heated after made to set it. These sparkels you mention might also have had to have been glued on. Then there's you soap or detergent and if you add other things to the wash and other clothes too. IS the shirt in good shape, but the printing getting bad? Or are both getting bad? 12 washes ain't too many, but you made it sound as if you'd worn it a hundred times.