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I've often wondered why my Ohio license is called a "driver license". It is awkward to say it like that.
Wouldn't something like driver's license be more appropriate?
Or driving license (like hunting license)?
(Note: image above shows driver, driver's, and drivers variations.)
The shirt in the OP is not the best example of what people, at least originally, meant by "wifebeater".
Instead, "wifebeater" meant a finely ribbed, thin fabric, white, A-shirt, sold in multipacks as a men's undershirt like this.
For higher quality shirts like in the OP, say "tank top".
For a true "wifebeater" shirt, say "sleeveless undershirt". By "true" I mean:
See the 1998 article Teen Slang for Undershirts ("Wife-beaters") Causes Stir:
A "wife-beater"...is an old fashion, sleeveless undershirt... The "wife-beater" shirt isn't some nouveau tank top. It's the ribbed undershirt once worn only by granddads and Stanley Kowalski in A Street Car Named Desire
So, if I said it grammatically correctly "I like my new car", would people think that that sentence expressed a permanent or temporary state?
For stative verbs such as like, the simple present is a neutral form, not implying anything about permanence or temporariness.
If you want to emphasize that your feeling is likely to be temporary, you can preface your statement with "right now".
If you want to emphasize that your feeling is likely to be permanent, I think your best bet is to add something that ties your feeling to something about it: "I like my new car much better than my old one", or "I like my new car; its all-wheel drive is exactly what I need on snowy days", or . . . you get the idea.
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New Oxford American has this: