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, 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)
- The T-shirts travels kilometere: +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 megajoules t-shirt 10.3
- Carbon emission megajoules 4470
- Use of water litres: 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 per cent of the cultivated land in the world
- Roughly 12 per cent of total pesticide use worldwide
- Roughly 25 per cent of insecticides worldwide
- Water footprint – depending on how much it rains between 5000 – 25.000 litres of water needed to produce one kilo of cotton
Sources and Useful Information
- The average American has about 35 tee shirts
- Look-book. Denim icon James Dean
- Marlon Brando the greatest denim jeans icon
- Tees are Punk culture style icon #1 created by McLaren & Westwood in 1972
- Eco-fashion Encyclopedia
- Wikipedia t-shirt
- Pesticides, insecticides, cultivated land and cotton facts
- Global organic cotton standard
- Wrap valuating our clothes report
- Mark Bannister Untitled Prezi
- Delhi Cotton Farms & Ginning Indore.
- Madhya Pradesh Yarn spinning Ludhiana Punjab Echotex
- Forum for the future
- Organic cotton facts
- Oeco textiles
- The life-cycle of a t-shirt