T-shaped, short sleeved, cotton shirts. They were worn by men under uniforms during World War I and were later adopted by labourers. Since the 1960s they have been widely popular in the West, printed with political slogans, logos, jokes, social comments or brandnames.
FFD, 1998
Context:
It is already happening... Sneakers, T-shirts and Levi’s are the lingua franca of young people - and the not-so-young. Simplicity - call it minimalism - is the dominant trend.
