There was a time, in the ancient annals of our forefathers, when things were much different then they are now. There were not modern conveniences like microwaves and cell phones. There were no such things as home computers or the Internet. Yes, this ancient time was a time of our grandparents. When men were men, and women wore high-heels in the kitchen while they cooked for their unappreciative men. Things have changed so much, that you can look at something so simple as t-shirts and see the way they have morphed into something completely different over the course of just a few years.
There is no doubt that t-shirts have changed to the point of weirdness since their first inception many years ago. The first t-shirts were extremely simple by today's standards. They were white, boring, and stained easily...just like our grandparents. These t-shirts were worn under an outer shirt, and wearing them outside of your clothes was considered low class and revealing. Did you hear me correctly? T-shirts were too revealing. That's like saying that ankle socks show too much leg.
If we think that our grandparents were strange for their fear of showing too much t-shirt, then the 60's existed only to let us know how equally crazy our parents were. No matter what your parents say, they were probably hippies. Hippies saw how their parents hid their t-shirts and decided they would wear nothing BUT t-shirts. I suppose it was a form of rebellion, but it did have an affect on the way America looked at the lowly t-shirt. Plain white tees were replaced in kind by a rainbow of colors and a serious lack of washing.
Not much changed during the decade of disco, since hippies pretty much tarnished the common man's image of what t-shirts were. The 80's brought a big boom in the t-shirt industry, however, when corporations and punks waged a silent war over them. Corporations like Pepsi and Hershey made t-shirts plastered with their logo, while people who followed the punk rock scene used t-shirts as a canvas for their rage against politics and the status quo. Neither side won, but the punks made bold statement with nothing but plain-white tees and a few sharpies.
The change in t-shirts today has taken them so far from their roots that only the general shape of the t-shirt is the same as it was in the beginning. There are now many different styles, ranging from v-neck to baseball tees. The designs have gotten much more complex as well, from offensive humor-based t-shirts to t-shirts that look like they could be framed and put on the wall as art. T-shirts are funny in the way that man has taken them and turned them into something that can be written and drawn upon. They have gone from being underwear to out-spoken wear.
There is no doubt that t-shirts have changed to the point of weirdness since their first inception many years ago. The first t-shirts were extremely simple by today's standards. They were white, boring, and stained easily...just like our grandparents. These t-shirts were worn under an outer shirt, and wearing them outside of your clothes was considered low class and revealing. Did you hear me correctly? T-shirts were too revealing. That's like saying that ankle socks show too much leg.
If we think that our grandparents were strange for their fear of showing too much t-shirt, then the 60's existed only to let us know how equally crazy our parents were. No matter what your parents say, they were probably hippies. Hippies saw how their parents hid their t-shirts and decided they would wear nothing BUT t-shirts. I suppose it was a form of rebellion, but it did have an affect on the way America looked at the lowly t-shirt. Plain white tees were replaced in kind by a rainbow of colors and a serious lack of washing.
Not much changed during the decade of disco, since hippies pretty much tarnished the common man's image of what t-shirts were. The 80's brought a big boom in the t-shirt industry, however, when corporations and punks waged a silent war over them. Corporations like Pepsi and Hershey made t-shirts plastered with their logo, while people who followed the punk rock scene used t-shirts as a canvas for their rage against politics and the status quo. Neither side won, but the punks made bold statement with nothing but plain-white tees and a few sharpies.
The change in t-shirts today has taken them so far from their roots that only the general shape of the t-shirt is the same as it was in the beginning. There are now many different styles, ranging from v-neck to baseball tees. The designs have gotten much more complex as well, from offensive humor-based t-shirts to t-shirts that look like they could be framed and put on the wall as art. T-shirts are funny in the way that man has taken them and turned them into something that can be written and drawn upon. They have gone from being underwear to out-spoken wear.
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