A very brief and probably not complete history of the T-Shirt.

The term ‘T-Shirt’ wasn’t seen until the 1920s when it was publish in a book written by F Scott Fiztgerald.

T-Shirts where first used as an undergarment to help keep us warm in the winter months from the late 1800s but the American Navy started to issue cotton white tee’s to its sailors in 1913 and by the 1930s large department stores where selling the Navy designed white cotton tshirts to the masses.

The first printed t-shirt made its debut in in 1939 with ‘OZ’ printed in large letters on the front of the tee for the film, The Wizard of Oz.

The first slogan was thought to have appeared in around 1948 when a gentleman by the name of Thomas Dewy printed ‘Dew it with Dewy’

T-shirts really came to fame in 1951 when Marlon Brando whore a white t-shirt in the film A Streetcar Named Desire, his appearance in the t-shirt rocketed t-shirt sales globally. Again in 1955 another popular icon, James Dean whore a t-shirt sending this new piece of apparel to the top of everyone’s want list.

It wasn’t until the 1950s when a printing company called ‘Tropix Togs’ bought the rights from Disney to print Mickey Mouse t-shirts that t-shirts became a staple for every wardrobe, and again in the 1960s when music bands such as the Beatles and Led Zepplin produced t-shirts for their fans.

Late 1960s and early 1970s saw the tshirt become a billboard for political messages and in 1977 when the first ‘I Heart NY’ tee was released it was discovered that t-shirts were a great adverting medium.

Skip to 2007 and a Company called BombG T-Shirts began printing military and veteran themed designs and selling them wholesale and online, since then many veteran owned apparel companies have come and gone, many are still going and growing.

BombG sold its printing business in 2010 and has been quiet ever since, until now. Warrior Culture is owned and operated by the same team that printed the first military and veteran humour tees back in 2007.