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From Underwear to Fashion Statement

FROM UNDERWEAR TO FASHION STATEMENT HISTORY OF THE T-SHIRT 1800S 1900S 1868 | The "union suit," a top-and 1905 | The US Navy 1904 | The Cooper Underwear Company bottom-half underwear combo, is patented incorporates the in New York. begins marketing buttonless white "bachelor undershirts" undershirt into with the tagline "No their uniform Good at keeping workers warm, bad at keeping them cool-unless they cut it in half, creating a separate undershirt and safety pins-no buttons-no pants combo needle-no thread" 1920S 1940S 1941 | By the beginning of World War II, t-shirts 1945 | Returning US 1920 | The word "t-shirt" appears in print troops make t-shirts a for the first time in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This are a common sight on permanent part of Side of Paradise" American high school and university campuses casual American fashion 1950S 1960S 1967 | Warren Dayton 1951 | Marlon Brando rocks a Tin "A Streetcar 1955 | James Dean 1969 | Don Price, a marketer for Rit Dye, makes the white t-shirt popularizes the arty T gives away 100s of tie dye t-shirts to performers Named Desire" and the fashion uniform of with all over printed a generation in "Rebel Without a Cause" political images of Cesár Chavez, the Statue of teens love the look and attendees at Liberty, and more Woodstock. The tie dye t-shirt becomes a countercultural icon NY 1970S 1980S 1990S 2000S 1984 | Don Johnson patents the sports jacket and t-shirt 1977 | Milton Glaser invents 1991 | THE HYPERCOLOR 2009 | Driven by joke reviews the iconic "IVNY." The T-SHIRT CRAZE and internet memes, the Three image quickly becomes popular among souvenir combo on "Miami Vice" history Wolf Moon t-shirt becomes the $50 million in Hypercolor top-selling item on Amazon's clothing store history t-shirt manufacturers clothes sold in the first 5 months of 1991 The "IVNY" design becomes the most imitated T-shirt in history Generra, the company that made Hypercolor, was bankrupt by 1992 history HYPERCOLOR MAY BE (MERCIFULLY) DEAD, BUT THE T-SHIRT MAY WELL LIVE FOREVER. SOURCES BrokenGrrowWear Custom T-Shirt Printing & Embroidery http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/10/surprisingly-recent-invention-t-shirt/ http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/history/wwii_timeline.htmi http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/natural-beauty-fashion/stories/13-iconic-moments-in-the-history-of-the-t-shirt http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion-blog/2014/apr/18/james-dean-an-enduring-influence-on-modern-fashion http://www.warrendayton.com/?page_id%=16 http://mentalfloss.com/article/57339/brief-and-incomplete-timeline-t-shirt-history http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19920703&slug=1500288 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/GENERRA+SPORTSWEAR+SEEKS+CHAPTER+11+PROTECTION-a012300680 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8061031.stm LIFE

From Underwear to Fashion Statement

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Do you know the evolutionary history of the iconic T-shirt? If not, check out its transformation right here! It may just amaze you at how far this statement piece has come in just two centuries!

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