The origin of the T-shirt dates back to the
late 19th century when the first manufactured T-shirt was invented
between 1898 and 1913, when the US Navy began to issue them as what the
Americans call undershirts, and what we call vests. The actual term T-shirt was
first used in 1920 by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel This Side of Paradise.
He wrote as follows:
“So early in September, Amory, provided with ‘six suits summer underwear, six
suits winter underwear, one sweater or T-shirt, one jersey, one overcoat,
winter, etc,’ set out for New England, the land of schools.”
However, that aside,
the T-shirt was still worn largely as a vest until 1950 when Marlon Brando wore
one when playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. This was
followed in 1955 by James Dean doing the same in Rebel Without a Cause. The
result of this was that the wearing of T-shirts as an outer garment as opposed
to a vest suddenly went through the roof, and in the 1960’s we had Flower Power
– “Let it all hang out, man” - and the birth of screen printing which helped to
turn the T-shirt industry into what it is today.
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