I'm A T-Shirt, I Am

I am a T-Shirt. You can say that the tale of my beginnings is as long as my arm. Perhaps you think that this is pretty short but in fact it is quite a long one, like my arm was once and is now sometimes. It is a pity that Charles Darwin was not around when I began life in this world or he would've been tremendously engrossed in my evolution.

I began life as a unassuming piece of clothe, buried under a layer and sometimes layers of clothing that a man wore. I spent my life out of sight, drenched in his sweat, either due to his toils or due to the weather or just because of a little metabolic oddity that he had. Sometimes some primeval fear made him sweat.

I was not known as a T-Shirt then, but as only a piece of undergarment. The idea of underwear did not in reality takeoff till the early 20^th. century when P.H. Hanes, the brother of John Wesley Hanes, started the P.H. Hanes Knitting Company, in 1901; and began the production of masculine underwear. It was the U.S. Navy that actually accelerated my development when, during the Second World War, it issued my forerunner, a dress with a round neck and short sleeves having an appearance of a "T" (hence the T-Shirt).

Although I was still thought of as an undergarment, the news bulletins from the European war theatre showed me being dressed in the open by the European soldiers, to beat the heat and sultry European atmosphere. But, as it happens all the time, Hollywood walked in to make me more accepted as an apparel on my own rights. I, a T-Shirt, became to be taken note of and fashionable by the 50s when I was seen on the big screen, worn by Marlon Brando in the movie "A Streetcar Named Desire" followed by James Dean in the film "Rebel Without a Cause". The more I appeared on the silver screen the more my reputation grew as a T-Shirt. I became a national phenomenon.

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