THE SHORT HISTORY OF THE T-SHIRT

The first known use of t-shirts is dated back to 1913 and the Spanish-American War, in the beginning, used by the U.S. Navy as underwear garments. Later during World War II, t-shirts became frequent to see veterans wearing t-shirts as a part of their uniform pants in a casual way.  However, the t-shirts real breakthrough happened when Marlon Brando wore white tees in the youth rebellious movie from the 1950s «A Streetcar Named Desire». Back then, the Jean introduced as a part of the new fashion uniform for generations of youngsters. The t-shirt became soon Jean’s twin brother, even though, due to the rebellious films starring Brando and James Dean. The uniforms were last seen by their parents as the work of a devil and even in several states banned from being worn in college. Due to this, tees popular increased ten folds. Ever since then t-shirt has remained its position as pop culture fashion icon #1. Worn today by not only rebellious bikers, outsiders, film stars but everyone.

CONVENTIONAL T-SHIRT FACTS

• The first known use of t-shirts dated back to 1913 and the Spanish-American war
• Worldwide yearly production: 2 billion
• Weight t-shirt gram: 113 –198 (4-7. Oz)
• T-shirt travels kilometer: +1000
• Cotton cost per t-shirt: $0.4
• The average American owns: 35 t-shirt
• Cotton in a t-shirt: can come from over 60 different farmhouses

T-SHIRT LIFECYCLE STEPS COTTON PRODUCTION – FABRIC – WEAVE – CONSUMER – USE – RECOVERY

• Energy mega joules t-shirt 10.3,
• Carbon emission mega joules 4470
• Use of water liters: 4350
• Pesticides gram: 2.8
• Fertilizers gram: 78

CONVENTIONAL COTTON FACTS

• 1 kg cotton can produce roughly 6 average quality tees
• The average American has about 35 tee shirts
• It takes approximately 1.3 kg of lint to produce 1 kg of cotton yarn
• 1 kg cotton can produce roughly 6 average quality tees
• Cotton occupies 4% of the cultivated land in the world
• Roughly 12 % of total pesticide use worldwide
• Roughly  25% of insecticides worldwide
• Water footprint – depending on how much it rains between 5000 – 25.000 liters of water needed to produce one kilo of cotton