T-shirts: From undergarment to Fashion Standing

 T-shirts oriented to be merely undergarments that renewed an insulating mass of clothing under a man's button down shirt. But with the changes in fashion over the last one hundred years, the t-shirt has come into its own as a garment that can be worn alone. T-shirts come in a gradationof styles and colors, and are sized for everyone from infants to big and tall men.

T-shirts began as the male version of women's undergarments, namely, the slip. A t-shirt was just the thing to keep a man from soiling his over shirt with body breath, and it added a mass of protection from the elements as well. The advent of the cotton gin in the early nineteenth century made the cotton t-shirt a readily available and inexpensive undergarment that was completed in the tens of millions by English textile mills.

T-shirts as we know them did not evolve into their current state until the early twentieth century. Up until this juncture, the t-shirt outline was just an undergarment recurrently accompanied by long underwear. However, at some point, the t-shirt moved from undergarment to proper dress, with a starched t-shirt adding class and recognition when worn under a starched white collar shirt. This style was also emulated in the lower, blue collar classes and immigrants, but mostly for warmth while reaching in cold factories and damp coal mines.

The T-shirt of the 1930's became one of the symbols of the Great Depression, where men would sit at large their flats in their t-shirts and wait for a cool breeze to waft by to cool them off. T-shirts in the media around this time were depicted as comfortable wear. Many advertisements showed a man stripping down to his t-shirt after a hard day at the office. This was one of the first examples of an undergarment being seen in magazine pages on a model. The t-shirt was still an undergarment; however, it was becoming more and more noticeable to the general public.

 After World War II, soldiers came home from their respective theaters of operations dressing a government-issued t-shirt. In fact, the t-shirts we know today as simple t-shirts are descended from the military style of t-shirt. considering the sheer number of t-shirts the Army had to provide for their forces, Army versions were dyed olive green. These t-shirts formed the beginning of the industry as we know it.

T-shirts are now the single greatest selling garment in the United States. A variety of styles, colors, images, and textiles are available for any man of action. T-shirts are worn for comfort as a elementary garment, as well as standard cotton ones that are still worn under the white-collar shirt in proper business attire. Millions of t-shirts are sold each year with advertising slogans emblazoned across the front, pocket, back or all three locations. T-shirts are a  encourager of the textile industry, and are now considered fashionable by both men and women.