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  Annotations 1 **// Crane, Diana. "The Social Meanings of Hats and T-shirts." Fashion and Its Social //****//Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing. U of Chicago Press., 2000. Web. 11 Oct. 2010. . //** In this here article I have learned quite a few of things about T-shirts, in which I found quite interesting. One of the any things floating through my mind and thoughts that I have learned is, that the T-shirt decorated with lettering and design began to come about in the 1940’s. Annotations 2
 * 2. ** Along with that bit of information I learned a couple more things along the way of reading this article. It is in fact known that T-shirts are a huge way to convey both rebellion and conformity, depending on the context and types of messages displayed to spread your message in a quick and mobile way. In this case T-shirts would have also been a big jump, when they came out, for the advertising industry.
 * 3 **. Lastly, Printing on shirts as a means of identifying the wearer with an organization, such as a sports team, appeared in the middle of the nineteenth century and was being used by universities in the 1930s. This is also a very important because it was allowing the T-shirt industry to grow and expand to many different areas of need for promotion.

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**//Report Eight: The Secret Life of a T-Shirt." thebespokenfor. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Oct. 2010. .

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 * 1 **<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. In this article I found some more interesting facts about the history of T-shirts. One fact that I found out is that the “T-shirt” was traced back to the military. It was the "Swabs" in the British Royal Navy who wore them under their uniforms during World War I, or some even suggest it was the French Army. Either way T shirts were used under the uniform of a made soldier out at war.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2. ** <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif';">Along with learning about where the T-shirt came from, I now learned where the name came from. One possibility which is slim would be the shape of the shirt is like a “T”, another possibility is that it stood for “training shirts”. Lastly, there is the possibility that the alternate spelling of “tee” comes from the word amputee, an allusion that the arms are shorter in length. It was quite often that a soldier would lose a limb in World War I.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">3. **<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To acquire said T-shirts you must have money and a place for you to purchase them at. Each store will have different shirts depending on the style of clothing and the brand of clothing. The prices will greatly vary depending on these same factors. Most normal everyday shirts will start out anywhere from 25 dollars to around 35 dollars.

**<span style="font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"The All American Fashion ." T-Shirt Countdown. T-ShirtKing, n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2010. <http://www.t-shirtcountdown.com/t-shirts/history.html>. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1. **<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By the 1920’s, the word “T-Shirt” was officially added to the Merriam Webster’s dictionary, And also by World War II both the army and the navy had added the “T-Shirt” to their official standard issue underwear. **<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">3. **<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the 1960’s, for commercial purposes, people began to tie die shirts as well as screen print them. Once there were more and more advances in dying and printing, it allowed more variety and the tank top, muscle shirt, scoop neck, v-neck, and a ton of other variations of the T-shirt in to fashion.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2. **<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By 1955 people began to wear the T-Shirt without another piece of clothing covering it. Along with that James Dean made the “T-Shirt” the official contemporary symbol for rebellious youth.

**//<span style="font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Report Eight: The Secret Life of a T-Shirt." thebespokenfor. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Oct. 2010. <http://www.thebespokenfor.net/ronsfashionlife/2009/01/ report-eight-the-secret-life-of-a-tshirt.html>.

//** Annotations 3 __<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Source #4 __ <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 2010. <http://www.t-shirt-buyers-guide.org/custom_t-shirts/ t-shirt_history.htm>. **<span style="font-family: "Bell MT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1. **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">John Wayne, Marlon Brando, and James Dean were three contributors to making an underwear shirt go mainstream, by wearing it on tv in 1955. This began the ability for the T-Shirt to stand as the symbol for rebellious youth. **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2. **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the late sixties and seventies, people began to realize that printing on t-shirts could be a lucrative business. Rock and Roll bands and professional athletic teams started to make huge profits selling custom screen printed t-shirts. <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">3. **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The T-shirts were lightw <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">**"History of Fashion Design." //Wikipedia//. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Nov. 2010.** <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Charles Frederick Worth was the first fashion designer to truly become famous. He was born in 1826 and passed away in 1895. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the late 1870’s the fashion industry in both America and English societies saw a shift from corsets, padding, and petticoats to fabrics that revealed the shape of the female body. This trend was noted by Wilke Collins, an English novelist. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">3. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There were many reform movements, one being the American movement started solely by the National Dress Reform Association aiming to make female clothing safer and more practical. This happened in 1856. <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> eight, an
 * <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1 **<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. In this article I found some more interesting facts about the history of T-shirts. One fact that I found out is that the “T-shirt” was traced back to the military. It was the "Swabs" in the British Royal Navy who wore them under their uniforms during World War I, or some even suggest it was the French Army. Either way T shirts were used under the uniform of a made soldier out at war.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2. ** <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif';">Along with learning about where the T-shirt came from, I now learned where the name came from. One possibility which is slim would be the shape of the shirt is like a “T”, another possibility is that it stood for “training shirts”. Lastly, there is the possibility that the alternate spelling of “tee” comes from the word amputee, an allusion that the arms are shorter in length. It was quite often that a soldier would lose a limb in World War I.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">3. **<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To acquire said T-shirts you must have money and a place for you to purchase them at. Each store will have different shirts depending on the style of clothing and the brand of clothing. The prices will greatly vary depending on these same factors. Most normal everyday shirts will start out anywhere from 25 dollars to around 35 dollars.
 * <span style="font-family: "Bell MT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"History Of the T-Shirt." //t-shirt-buyers-guide.org//. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Oct.
 * <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fashion_design>**

Nov. 2010. <http://www.bamboo-t-shirt.com/history.html>. ** <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">James dean made the T-Shirt real cool in “Rebel without a Cause”. James Dean made the T-Shirt a symbol of rebellious youth by the year 1955. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The T-shirt became screen printed and the mechanics of screen printing on the increased the volume and availability, in the 80’s and 90’s. Soon enough the T-Shirt was being called a commodity item in the clothing industry. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">3. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">T-Shirts began to multiply quickly when people realized that the T-Shirt could be used to advertize, brag, inform, shock, bewilder, and exhibit whatever their imagination could invent. Companies began to give away and sell t-shirts printed with their corporate logos, also convincing people to pay for the privilege of being a walking billboard. Certain designs became a matter of cool and hip living, at least until a more unique shirt was sported by some trend setter somewhere. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">d cotton, and were worn under the soldiers uniform it World War II
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ryan, David. "A Short History of the T-Shirt." //Com4th.com//. N.p., n.d. Web. 4

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Source 8 <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">**Dixon, Mark E., ed. "A T-Shirt History: From Underwear to Outerwear." //Mark E.//** <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For awhile the t-shirt was on the loose by itself. The technology of textile printing was, by today’s standards, rudimentary even among the few major manufacturers. Custom printing in small quantities, of the primary offering of te t-shirt shop did not exist. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Neither felt nor tackle twill, the more advanced type of sewn lettering which succeeded it, are suitable for casual wear. Felt grays at the edges, tackle twill puckers nd both tend to rip lose, according to Ray Gluss III, a partner in Raysons sports of Chicago. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">3. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Both felt and tackle twill need a lot of maintenance. Tackle twill needs to be ironed to look its best. Most people would never put that much effort into a t-shirt. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
 * //Dixon dotcom//. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Nov. 2010. <http://www.markedixon.com/**
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