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T-shirt: The yardstick to measure the fashion trends
T-shirt: the building block of fashion
As season changes
from summer to monsoon and monsoon to winter, fashion trends also change
accordingly. But after every three or four months the majority of us do not
have the time or the need to buy new clothes. Then the question comes: What
kind of casual dresses or garments will change you according to your range of
styles, colors and mood? - Obviously the T-shirts.
T-shirts have always been believed as the mere essentials - those basic
requirements that form the base of fashion - the building block of fashion. If
you want to know how much fashion trend in T-shirts have changed in the last
couple of years, take your measure tape.
Fashion, which had started in the 50's, became inspired with its sociological
and industrial advances. It was a noble time to be young, and fashion became a
rip along the position of age. In the 60's people started to wear the tie dye
and screen-printed cotton T-shirts. Improvement in printing and dyeing stood
out for more variety and came in to fashion and it bloomed in the 60's.
Tight trend of the seventies
In the 1970s the disco scene was enormous, concert dancing was popular with
dance parties and tight pants with T-shirts were a trend. The whole '70s trend
was form-fitting - 'very tight', where the extra-large, loose-fitting,
urban-influenced tees moved out and tight T-shirts with tight polyester,
usually with bell-bottomed men's pants escorted by standy shoes were used to
attract the young girls seeming for romance, were very popular.
Chemin de fer pants, Elephant Ear Pants, embroidery on pant legs, flag pants,
Gabardine Pants, HASH Jeans with Bonds T-shirt (raglan cut T-shirt with ribbing
around neck and sleeves), Rock Concert T-shirts (with a logo picture of a rock
star or a rock band or trademark of rock band) and tie-dye T-shirts (homemade
T-shirts with stripes and curved in different colors of dye) were generally
popular in 70s and women generally were short mini skirt, maxi dress, midi
skirt or hot pants with T-shirts.
The eighties:
Iron-on T-shirts with stonewashed jeans pant trend
In 80s Iron-on, the coolest kind of T-shirts was popular. Tight Stonewashed
Jeans, Parachute Pants, Corduroy Pants, Tight Leather Pants, Super Tight Minis
with Fido Dido, Ocean Pacific T-shirts, Long T-shirts, and Hard Rock Caf� etc
T-shirts were popular among them.
The nineties -
Baggy and bright denim trend
Levi brand T-shirt that had "Button Your Fly" written in very large letters
were very popular in 90s. Flare Jeans, Baggy & Bright denim, the schoolgirl
look of baby doll dresses with puffed sleeves and thigh-high stockings, slip
dresses worn over T-shirts became popular and was a trend of 90s.
Fashion of 2000
T-shirts with "Boys Are Great", "I Make Boys Cry", etc slogan T-shirts with zip
off at or around knee pants were popular in 2000. Duller colors were more
popular at the beginning of that decade and V-neck sweater and have accents
woven in around the neck, waist was very popular.
T-shirts have passed through every social, cultural and economic level of human
life and got a great acceptance in day-to-day life from big cities to small
towns all over the globe.
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