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In the debate of whether to trust Wikipedia, I found this junk on thee t-shirt a tiny bit useful in considering 'Why is it called a 'T-shirt?' In saying all this, in the past year I have developed a slightly erotic love affair with wiki. We tend to spend the early hours of the morning together on awful come downs discussing and self diagnosing rare and insightful mental disorders. Irrelevant conclusions seem to part our lips and I always wonder when we may reach first base. I guess this is all a good reason to not trust any of my shitty copy and pastings from the dreadful site. We have since broken up, though still bang casually once a week. Basically I think I am too lazy to actually research anything interesting on t-shirt to date so far. As requested, some hazy days facts:

*A T-shirt (T shirt or tee) is a thin, knitted shirt which is pulled on over the head to cover most of a person's torso. A T-shirt is usually buttonless and collarless, with a round neck and short sleeves.

*The T-shirt evolved from undergarments used in the 19th century, through cutting the one-piece "union suit" underwear into separate top and bottom garments, with the top long enough to tuck under the waistband of the bottoms. T-shirts, with and without buttons, were adopted by miners and stevedores during the late 19th century as a convenient covering for hot environments.

*Named the T-shirt due to the shape of the garment's outline.

*In the early 1950s several companies based in Miami, Florida, started to decorate T-shirts with different resort names and various characters. The first company was Tropix Togs, under founder Sam Kantor, in Miami.

*Additionally, one of the most popular symbols to emerge out of the political turmoil of 1960s were T-shirts bearing the face of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.

*Since the 1980s, T-shirts have flourished as a form of personal expression.

*A life cycle study of one T-shirt brand shows that the CO₂ emissions from a T-shirt is about 4 kg -- including the growing of the cotton, manufacturing and wholesale distribution.