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This Saturday 21st is the first day of summer and also International T-Shirt Day!<\/p>This Saturday 21st is the first day of summer and also International T-Shirt Day!<\/p>
The T-Shirt became popular in 1904, starting with an advertisement in a magazine from the Cooper Underwear Company.<\/p>
The successful advertisement showed two men in different pictures. The first man looked uneasy in his traditional undershirt which had buttons falling off and appeared messy. The second man who had a moustache and was smoking a cigar wore a modern long-sleeve crew-neck T-shirt.<\/p>
Cooper Underwear Company promoted \"The Bachelor Shirt\" with the catchy slogan \"No Safety Pins No Needle No Thread No Buttons.\" These long-sleeve T-shirts then became popular with the US Navy, who started asking sailors to wear undershirts that don\u2019t have buttons.<\/p>
Over the following years the \u2018T-shirt\u2019 style became popular and was first seen in print in F. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel \"This Side of Paradise\" and subsequently first appeared in a movie in 1951 when actor Marlon Brando wore it in the film \"A Streetcar Named Desire.\" This helped boost T-shirt sales to $180 million that year.<\/p>
The 1950s marked the start of printed T-shirts. Businesses quickly saw this as a way to promote their products. With Disney starting to print pictures of Mickey Mouse and other characters, along with names of their resorts on T-shirts. Soon after other companies joined in seeking fresh ways to advertise their brands.<\/p>
In the 1960s people started wearing T-shirts to display their favourite rock bands.<\/p>
Album covers started appearing on T-shirts and soon these shirts became a way for people to express political messages too.<\/p>
At the end of the 1960s T-shirts became more colourful with the introduction of tie-dye.<\/p>
In 1977 graphic designer Milton Glaser created one of the most famous T-shirt designs of all time.<\/p>
The \u201cI (heart) NY\u201d T-shirt was created as part of a marketing campaign for New York state. Since then, many other cities around the world have copied this design for their own souvenirs and T-shirts.<\/p>
The now yearly celebration of T-shirts started in 2008 as an initiative by the brand Spreadshirt, with other big brands following suit. Over the following 2 years the initiative grew with T-Shirt giveaways, \u2018take one, leave one\u2019 promotions and competitions.<\/p>
\u00a0T-shirts have changed a lot since 1904, from just being basic clothing worn under other clothes to a popular way for people to show their personality and express themselves.<\/p>
The T-shirt has become a must-have item in almost everyone\u2019s closet with the average person owning 27 of them!<\/p>
So, grab yourself a Michael\u2019s Meanderings original image T-Shirt, that not only looks great, but is sustainably made, vegan, 100%organic cotton and can be \u2018remade\u2019 into new T-Shirts.<\/p>