T-Shirt - The Most Loved Piece of Clothing
The conception and birth of the t-shirt was a normal occurrence. Nothing complicated. It might have passed off into the history of fashion without a walk down any of the world's long ramps had not some subsequent events taken place. But its evolution, though short like is arm is quite an interesting one. For it started on its journey to fame as a humble underwear.
The T-Shirt began its existence as a humble piece of clothing hidden under another layer of clothing or sometimes under layers of clothing that men wore. It spent its life hidden away, soaked in his sweat, either because of his toils or because of the climate or just because of some metabolic quirk that he had. Some times he sweated for some primeval reason.
In the beginning the it was known only as a piece of underwear. The concept of underwear did not really take off till the early twentieth century when in 1901 the P.H. Hanes Knitting Company started the manufacture of men's underwear. But it was the Navy that really accelerated my evolution when it issued my predecessor, a piece of apparel with a crew neck and short sleeves with a T like outline (hence the T-Shirt) during World War I.
Though it was still considered as an underwear, the news reels from the war showed it being worn in the open by the soldiers, to beat the hot and humid European climate. But, as it almost always happens, Hollywood stepped in to make the this particular item of clothing more popular as an apparel on its own rights. It became to be noticed and popular by the 1950s when it was worn on the silver screen by Marlon Brando in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) and then by James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955). More of its appearances on the silver screen worn by prominent icons of the industry skyrocketed its image.
Right from the very beginning this casual dress has been used for endorsing a variety of causes. Simple political messages, health messages etc. were what it was used to convey initially. It was used as a medium of protest during the Vietnam War. The invention, in 1950, of Plastisol, a more resilient and stretchable ink saw the shirt evolving into a more resourceful medium of just about any type of written or graphical communication.
This simple and inexpensive apparel became a means of displaying opinions, jokes, one-liners, graphic messages and the like. Anything and everything printable would have at one time or another been printed on it. Further developments in printing technology only helped in increasing its overall reputation. Now that the Internet is here, customizing a t-shirt to suit one idiosyncrasies is just a matter of mouse and keyboard use.
This simple and inexpensive apparel became a means of displaying opinions, jokes, one-liners, graphic messages and the like. Anything and everything printable would have at one time or another been printed on it. Further developments in printing technology only helped in increasing its overall reputation. Now that the Internet is here, customizing a t-shirt to suit one idiosyncrasies is just a matter of mouse and keyboard use.
The advent of the Internet brought customization into the realms of the design of these t-shirts. Anyone can design and wear a unique t-shirt of his own, according to his fancy. There is a saying that says that clothes make a man, but none say as much this one does. The t-shirt is a wonderful product.
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Kathy Austin is a writer for an online gallery, Red Bubble. Red Bubble sells high-quality t-shirts, funny t-shirts , framed prints, mounted prints and more.
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