“In The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, business professor Pietra Rivoli takes the reader on a fascinating around-the-world adventure to reveal the life story of her six-dollar T-shirt. Traveling from a West Texas cotton field to a Chinese factory, and from trade negotiations in Washington to a used clothing market in Africa, Rivoli examines international trade through the life story of this simple product.” MORE ➲

“How we got from the earnest ‘Dew it with Dewey’ shirt of the 1940s to the ‘I’m getting really good at masturbating’ one of today.” (Thanks kottke.org!) MORE ➲

Maybe not the best ever, but surely pretty damn awesome. MORE ➲

“Hey there, welcome to Tcritic, a daily blog about t-shirts, t-shirt companies, and things that should be t-shirts. If you want your t-shirt reviewed, send me an email and preferably a picture of someone wearing the shirt. I tend to like original t-shirts, indie, odd, attractive, artsy etc.” MORE ➲

“Phillips has always been an innovator in lighting and displays. Now they bring that innovative approach to the lowly T-shirt with their Lumalive light emiting textiles.” MORE ➲

“The predecessor of the t-shirt was the “union suit”, a type of one-piece long underwear worn beneath clothing. In 1901, P.H. Hanes Knitting Company introduced two-piece men’s underwear for catalogue sale. The t-shirt got its big break during WWI in 1913 when the U.S. Navy issued a garment that featured short sleeves, a ‘crew’ neckline and a ‘T’-shape.” MORE ➲

“The most commonly used seams for T-shirts are narrow, superimposed seams, which are usually made by placing one piece of fabric onto another and lining up the seam edges. These seams are frequently stitched with an overedge stitch, which requires one needle thread from above and two looper threads from below. This particular seam and stitch combination results in a flexible finished seam.” MORE ➲

“Mesa, Ariz., screen printer / airbrusher Spider likes to tell the (possibly apocryphal) story of the Chinese merchant who, about 2500 B.C., combined the even-then old art of stenciling and then-current rage at the Emperor’s court — decorated robes — to produce an early printed garment. ‘I’m not sure where that story comes from,’ said Spider, ‘but even today I can see that old Chinaman’s reasoning: There was a big market for a printed garment and it was faster and cheaper to stencil it than to paint it by hand.’” MORE ➲

“Looking for a funny t-shirt, a cool t-shirt, a crazy t-shirt? Come inside now, you funny tee shirt sheik.” MORE ➲

“Threadless is an ongoing tee shirt design competition. Four to six designs are chosen every week from 600+ submissions to be printed and sold from the site with the winning designers receiving $2,000 in cash and prizes! The project was started in January of 2000 by two Chicago area designers, Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart. Since then over 450 winning designs have been chosen for print from more than 60,000 submissions.” MORE ➲