After wearing T-shirts for so many years, have you ever wondered where T-shirts came from?
According to historical records, a T-shirt worn by Caesar was displayed in a restaurant in ancient Rome. It was somewhat similar to today’s T-shirts, but during a volcanic eruption, the restaurant and its T-shirts were gone.
The T-shirt in the modern sense originated from the 17th century. It was a uniform short-sleeved shirt worn by dock workers who specialized in unloading tea at the dock. They directly abbreviated “Tea” to “T” was painted on the outside of the wooden box, and over time, the work clothes were also called T-shirts. Of course, there is another theory. The clothes worn at that time were laid out in a T shape, hence the name.
No matter which way you say it, the word T-shirt was really accepted by the public in the 1920s, when Webster Dictionary ranked first T-shirt is included as a general vocabulary for the first time.
Of course, the function of T-shirts as “underwear” has not changed before the 1920s. Before that, few men wore them outside, and those who wore them outside were mostly people engaged in manual labor, such as sailors. , mainly worn to cover up shame.
Because sailors at that time loved to wear vests, the commander, in order to be more decent, compromised and stipulated that sailors must wear sweaters with sleeves to cover their thick body hair.
Time came to the 1930s. At this time, a T-shirt that could really be worn outside appeared, which was the famous sea soul shirt. Due to the yearning for the ocean and sailors in that era, many were at the forefront of the trend. Both men and women wear this “underwear” outside.
The most famous brand for wearing T-shirts outside is Coco.
Chanel, it is said that she was the first public figure to wear a T-shirt outside. However, what really made T-shirts popular in Europe and the United States was Marlon Brando and James Dean. In “A Streetcar Named Desire” which was released nationwide in 1951, they wore ordinary white T-shirts. , making a kind of girl obsessed with it.
In 1955, the James Dean T-shirt outfit appeared and began to be slowly accepted by many men. In “Rebel Without a Cause”, he wore a T-shirt + black leather jacket + jeans His style of clothing directly affected the clothing of a generation and became the standard for the literary and angry youth at that time.
In the 1960s, more and more people began to wear casual wear with T-shirts. By 1975, the T-shirt industry ushered in the “butterfly effect”, and 48 million printed T-shirts appeared in the United States. There is a large and small clothing market, and this number has been rising since then, with no downward trend at all.
Nowadays, T-shirts have become very popular, and people are more diversified in their choices and pay more attention to the functionality of T-shirts.
