The most revolutionary garment of the twentieth century :: Diario El Popular de Olavarria

Like any trend, he says a lot about the evolution of customs and society.Incredibly their beginnings are located in the Middle Ages.Hygiene at that time was not what we know today.Body washing and clothing was performed in moderation.The cunning consisted of adopting a t -shaped t -shaped t -shirt.In this way (and as an inner garment) the shirt acted as a hygienic barrier between the skin and the garment.

Light and easy to drive, it became an easy -to -wash piece.It was in the nineteenth century when society got rid of the sides and the garment approached the body, always hidden in everyone's eyes, of course.Only with the change of the century the British Navy adopted a flannel shirt to place it under the wool uniform.

In the Navy

The United States Navy soon copied that comfortable modality.Especially when seeing French soldiers wear a long -sleeved cotton shirt.Medical officers were the first to praise this garment that men were also very comfortable.Thus it was that in 1913 the cotton point shirt became the official in underwear of the army.

However, it was necessary for collective imagination to associate this new piece of fabric with the idea of strong man with sculpted body.The shirt thus became synonymous with practicality.The bodies change, the silhouette is sharpened because it is the time of movement and dynamism.

The rise of the shirts shoots in the first decades of the twentieth century.The p.H.Hanes Knitting Company begins to manufacture these male underwear in 1901, while the American giant Fruit of the loom produces them on a large scale from the 1910s.

In the 1930s, the shirts were already common among university athletes.In 1938, American Sears trade, Roebuck and Company began to sell Gob White T -shirts (popular jargon to call sailors)."T -shirt inside, T -shirt on the outside," said his announcement, in which they assured men who could "use it as an exterior garment for sport and leisure, or as an interior garment: practice and valid in any way".In World War II, the Earth Army and the US Navy.UU.Short -sleeved white sleeve t -shirts supplied to their troops.The war and postwar images that showed the service soldiers in a shirt contributed to associate it with the male hero."It is not necessary to be a soldier to have your own shirt," Sears proclaim.

Of stars

The glorious and simplistic shirt is democratized and becomes an essential piece.The particular film stars will play an important role.Marlon Brando adopted her openly in "A tram called desire" by Elia Kazan (1951), but is especially in the handsome and dark James Dean in "The fury of life" by Nicholas Ray (1955) that the white shirt marks fire by fire the tendency.

Keep in mind that at the moment this piece populates the male wardrobe but much less the feminine.Only in the 1970s, when the shirts became unisex and acquired sexual attractiveness, we began to see them more frequent.

Actress Jacqueline Bisset in "The Deep Sea" by Peter Yates (1977) surprised more than one by exposing himself with a wet shirt, therefore transparent.The trend is a fact.From Jane Birkin to Serge Gainsbourg, everyone uses T-Shirt.

From here more everyone makes it its own.The haute couture marks such as Yves Saint Laurent or Dior are the first, closely followed by Chanel or Ralph Lauren.Lacoste, Calvin Klein and Giorgio Armani have made the shirt essential part of their uniform.Rock groups adopt it thanks to the development of screen printing and even do politicians!.

From a hidden garment it becomes a symbol of the practical, of the relaxed.Today it is an essential piece that, at the hands of ecological consciousness, has changed cotton to organic and ethical fibers.

It is the utilitarian garment par excellence, indispensable in every closet that is necessary of such and therefore, you can boast of having yet many years ahead.