The T-Shirt's Evolution
If we went back to the 1950's in a magical time-traveling bubble and showed our grandparents the stuff people wear in public today, I'm pretty sure they would choose never to have children and we would never have existed at all. This would cause a massive time paradox that could very well untangle the very fabric of reality and destroy all time and space as we perceive it today. Because of the dangers involved, I refuse to take part in any time-traveling experiments and I refuse to wear t-shirts around my grandparents.
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.
T-shirts took a huge back seat to polyester and leisure suits during the 70's, but saw a big surge in the 80's as people started using t-shirts to make statements. Punk rock sped this along with unique t-shirts that created satire out of politics and religion. T-shirts stopped saying something about the person wearing them and started saying something about the world. We also saw many companies use t-shirts as a form of advertisement, perhaps as a form of counter-counterculture against the punks who were fighting back against the "establishment".
These days, t-shirts are as varied as you could ever want them. We live in an age of the Internet and instant gratification. If you want a brown v-neck t-shirt with a dinosaur on it, then you can have it within a matter of a few days. T-shirts have become as much of a staple of current fashion as blue jeans. Our grandparents may not think too much about it, but the world much be a completely different place than they imagined it in their youth. If t-shirts have changed this much, I can't imagine what they think about television.
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.
T-shirts took a huge back seat to polyester and leisure suits during the 70's, but saw a big surge in the 80's as people started using t-shirts to make statements. Punk rock sped this along with unique t-shirts that created satire out of politics and religion. T-shirts stopped saying something about the person wearing them and started saying something about the world. We also saw many companies use t-shirts as a form of advertisement, perhaps as a form of counter-counterculture against the punks who were fighting back against the "establishment".
These days, t-shirts are as varied as you could ever want them. We live in an age of the Internet and instant gratification. If you want a brown v-neck t-shirt with a dinosaur on it, then you can have it within a matter of a few days. T-shirts have become as much of a staple of current fashion as blue jeans. Our grandparents may not think too much about it, but the world much be a completely different place than they imagined it in their youth. If t-shirts have changed this much, I can't imagine what they think about television.
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