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Championship games have champions, and champion t-shirts. But since we don’t know who that is until the championship game is over, championship shirts are printed for both teams, so they can be presented to the winning team immediately. It looks good on TV, you know. But what happens to the other shirts -the ones with the losing team’s name on them? They used to be incinerated, but that has changed over the years. Read all about it at mental_floss. Link
(Image credit: Reuters/Oswaldo Rivas/Landov)
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Get ready for T-Shirt weather with Funny T-Shirts from the NeatoShop. From geeky to one-liners, we've got tons of neat T-shirts cheap! Free shipping to USA and Canada on orders $75 and up: Link
1913 The First T-Shirt Models
White cotton, crewneck T-shirts became regulation underwear for the U.S. Navy. Two decades later, at the University of Southern California, football players don similar shirts to prevent chafing from heavy shoulder pads. The tees became so fashionable that students start pilfering them for casual wear. In response, the school began stenciling “Property of USC” on its T-shirts as a crime-prevention tactic, not a statement of pride.
1951 An Undershirt Named Desire
Hollywood rebel Marlon Brando exudes animal magnetism in A Streetcar Named Desire when he wears a thin, white T-shirt. Teens dig the look, and by year’s end, T-shirt sales total $180 million. But for Brando, the style is only a means to an end. A graduate of The Actors’ Studio, he’d learned to use his body to show his character’s inner turmoil. The T-shirt is only a thin veil, meant to cover not only his rippling physique, but also his character’s bestial urges.
1969 Tie-Dyed Shirts Become Groovy
For decades, the only people using Rit dye were old women who wanted to color their drapes and linens. But in the mid-60s, advertising whiz Don Price markets the dye to hippies, who use it to tie-dye their tees. But Price’s real stroke of genius comes in 1969, when he produces hundreds of the shirts and gives them away to performers at Woodstock. The multicolored tops are quickly adopted as part of the counterculture uniform.
1977 I ♥ NY
Throughout the 1970s, New York City gains a reputation as a tourists’ nightmare -dirty, decadent, and crime-ridden. To revitalize the city’s image, the Commerce Department hires designer Milton Glaser to fashion an eye-catching logo for the city. Over lunch one day, Glaser sketches “I ♥ NY” on a napkin. The logo spearheads a resurgence in New York tourism and becomes the most imitated T-shirt design in history. Glaser claims that the shirt’s appeal comes from decoding the symbols: “You feel smart when you figure it out.”
1984 Frankie Learns to Talk
BBC Radio bans song “Relax” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, claiming the lyrics are too explicitly sexual. Naturally, sales of the single skyrocket, and the song goes to No. 1. To flaunt the band’s triumph over censorship, record label owner Paul Morley puts the song’s words in big capital letters on T-shirts.
The “FRANKIE SAYS RELAX” tee turn millions of music fans into human billboards. Soon, Frankie knock-offs are everywhere. Although the band’s popularity quickly dies, the T-shirt lives on, appearing on the torso of everyone from Jennifer Anniston to Homer Simpson.
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The article by Bill DeMain is reprinted from Scatterbrained section of the January-February 2011 issue of mental_floss magazine. Subscribe today to get it delivered to you!
Be sure to visit mental_floss‘ website and blog for more fun stuff!
It’s been done before, but the effect is still funny! These shirts were designed for the Dutch Football Federation for the 2010 World Cup tournament beginning next week in South Africa. Do I see a woman wearing one of these in the background? Link -via Nag on the Lake
Scientists have developed a way to make T-shirt fabric reinforced with boron carbide, which is the same material used to strengthen military tanks. Boron carbide has a hardness just short of diamonds. Imagine that strength in a regular lightweight shirt!
To turn cotton bulletproof, researchers from the University of South Carolina and their collaborators from China and Switzerland dipped sections of regular T-shirts (Fig 1a) in a special mix of nickel and borate. After allowing the cotton to absorb the mix for 2 hours (Fig 1b), the textile was dried quickly in an oven and cured at a high temperature for 3 hours. Once ready, the pieces of cotton were placed in a furnace and headed at 1160°C for 4 hours while continuously aerated with argon. Finally, the resulting fabric pieces (Fig 1c) were cooled and analyzed using electron microscopes and a barrage of strength tests.
So far, the performance of the material is not up to Kevlar standards, but with some tweaking, body armor may soon be as easy to wear as any other clothing. Link
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Ah, I almost forgot to mention! We have a new selection of last-minute Halloween T-shirts. If you're at lost as to what to wear for Halloween, why not get one of these comfy T-shirts? You'll look great and support the blog as well! If you order in the next day or so, the shirts would definitely arrive by Halloween (USA orders).
From the Neatorama Shop: Halloween T-Shirt (limited quantity)
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Hooray! We're happy to announce that we've launched a new line of licensed T-shirts featuring the quotes (17 words or less epigrams, if you want to be technical) of Ashleigh Brilliant (featured on Neatorama previously here). Ashleigh has been doing these wonderful "Pot-Shots" for the past 40 years and has come up with over 10,000 kinds!
Visit the Neatorama Online Store for our growing selection of Ashleigh Brilliant quotes on T-shirts, including:
- Down
with Gravity
- Thanks
to my computer, I have achieved a much higher state of disorganization
- My
dream is to cut all ties with civilization but still be on the Internet
- I
may not be totally perfect but parts of me are excellent
- When
you build a better mousetrap, you are challenging nature to build a better
mouse
- Try
to look at things from your computer's point of view
and my favorite:
- The difference between science and magic is that magicians usually know what they're doing
A promotional shirt for Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles. Looks like an ordinary and rather plain t-shirt, right? But flip over the front and pull it over your head….
And you’re wearing a zombie mask! Strangely, they don’t make this shirt in a women’s style.
I’m thinking that Neatorama needs to create one of these. Neatorama logo on the front, flip it up, and you’re wearing an Alex mask.
Link via Topless Robot
