Media related to T-shirts at Wikimedia Commons. 20 Artists like Terence Koh , took a different approach, with t-shirts featuring an upside down portrait with a real bullet hole hand finished by him for the Soho store Opening Ceremony. By mid-2012 this method had become widely used for T-shirts.

(Image: http://www.imageafter.com/image.php?image=b19nature_characters_humanoids045.jpg&dl=1)In the 1980s, thermochromatic dyes were used to produce T-shirts that changed color when subjected to heat. Other methods of decoration used on T-shirts include airbrush , applique , embroidery , impressing or embossing, and the ironing on of either flock lettering, heat transfers , or dye-sublimation transfers. In 1959, the invention of plastisol provided an ink more durable and stretchable than water-based ink, allowing much more variety in T-shirt designs.

12 Additionally, one of the most popular symbols to emerge from the political turmoil of the 1960s were T-shirts bearing the face of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara 13. Monster T-shirts often feature emblems and motifs associated with the Grateful Dead and marijuana culture. The decade also saw the emergence of tie-dyeing and screen-printing on the basic T-shirt and the T-shirt became a medium for wearable art, commercial advertising , souvenir messages, and protest art messages.

In the early 1950s, several companies based in Miami, Florida , started to decorate T-shirts with different resort names and various characters. Models such as Victoria Beckham and Gisele Bundchen wore T-shirts through the 2000s. Artists like Bill Beckley , Glen Baldridge and Peter Klashorst use T-shirts in their work.

The political and social statements that T-shirts often display have become, since the first decade of the 21st century, one of the reasons that they have so deeply permeated different levels of culture and society. Often, the most popular T-shirts are those that characters wore in the film itself (e.g., Bubba Gump from Forrest Gump and Vote For Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite ). Movie and TV t shirt printing dubai-shirts can have images of the actors, logos, and funny quotations from the movie or TV show.

Licensed T-shirts are also extremely popular. Examples of designer T-shirt branding include Calvin Klein , FUBU , Ralph Lauren , American Apparel , and The Gap These examples also include representations of rock bands, among other obscure pop-culture references. Since the 1990s, it has become common practice for companies of all sizes to produce T-shirts with their corporate logos or messages as part of their overall advertising campaigns.

Since the 1960s, T-shirts have flourished as a form of personal expression 8 Screen printed T-shirts have been a standard form of marketing for major American consumer products, such as Coca-Cola and Mickey Mouse , since the 1970s. T-shirts were originally worn as undershirts, but are now worn frequently as the only piece of clothing on the top half of the body, other than possibly a brassiere or, rarely, a waistcoat ( vest ). T-shirts have also become a medium for self-expression and advertising, with any imaginable combination of words, art and photographs on display.