{"id":10387,"date":"2014-01-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10387"},"modified":"2014-01-08T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T19:41:31","slug":"the-history-of-the-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-history-of-the-t-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"The History Of The T-Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/010714_0550_TheHistoryO1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pagan Kennedy took a look at the history of t-shirts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>T-shirts were originally marketed as a form of underwear for bachelors that required no &#8220;safety pins&#8221; &#8220;buttons&#8221; &#8220;needle&#8221; or &#8220;thread&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The US Navy saw its convenience and required sailors to wear such undershirts \u2013 introducing the comfort of them to a generation of men.<\/li>\n<li>They were still mostly seen as underwear though. So much so that in Havana it was illegal to go out in public wearing them.<\/li>\n<li>By the 1940s t-shirts had become a standard part of outer-wear and were being customized by teenagers.<\/li>\n<li>These days some t-shirts have become a collector&#8217;s item that can auction for as much as $1,500.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find out which famous author is credited with coining the term &#8220;t-shirt&#8221;, how the size of t-shirts has changed over the years, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/22\/magazine\/who-made-that-t-shirt.html?_r=2&amp;\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/22\/magazine\/who-made-that-t-shirt.html?_r=2&amp;\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/manmadediy.com\/users\/chris\/posts\/2685-the-surprisingly-fascinating-history-of-the-t-shirt\">ManMade<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pagan Kennedy took a look at the history of t-shirts: T-shirts were originally marketed as a form of underwear for bachelors that required no &#8220;safety pins&#8221; &#8220;buttons&#8221; &#8220;needle&#8221; or &#8220;thread&#8221;. The US Navy saw its convenience and required sailors to wear such undershirts \u2013 introducing the comfort of them to a generation of men. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/010714_0550_TheHistoryO1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10395,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387\/revisions\/10395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}