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A T-shirt (or tee shirt, or tee) is a style of fabric shirt, named after the T shape of the body and sleeves. It is normally associated with short sleeves, a round neck line known as a ''crew neck'', and no collar. Typically made of cotton fibers knitted in a jersey stitch, they have a distinctive soft texture compared to woven shirts. The majority of modern versions have a body made from a continuously woven tube, on a circular loom, so that the torso has no side seams. The manufacture of T-shirts has become highly automated, and may include fabric cutting by laser or water jet. 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. With and without buttons, they were adopted by miners and stevedores during the late 19th century as a convenient covering for hot environments. As slip-on garments without buttons, they originally became popular in the United States when they were issued by the U.S. Navy during or following the Spanish–American War of 1898. These were a crew-necked, short-sleeved, white cotton undershirt to be worn under a uniform. It became common for sailors and Marines in work parties, the early submarines, and tropical climates to remove their uniform ''jacket'', wearing (and soiling) only the undershirt.〔Harris, Alice. ''The White T''. HarperCollins, 1996.〕 They soon became popular as a bottom layer of clothing for workers in various industries, including agriculture. The T-shirt was easily fitted, easily cleaned, and inexpensive, and for those reasons it became the shirt of choice for young boys. Boys' shirts were made in various colors and patterns. By the Great Depression, the T-shirt was often the default garment to be worn when doing farm or ranch chores, as well as other times when modesty called for a torso covering but conditions called for lightweight fabrics.〔 A V-neck T-shirt has a V-shaped neckline, as opposed to the round neckline of the more common crew neck shirt. V-necks were introduced so that the neckline of the shirt does not stand out when an outer shirt is worn over it, thus reducing or eliminating the visible cloth above the outer shirt of a crew neck shirt. == History == T-shirts, made of a light, inexpensive fabric, were easy to clean. The earliest T-shirt dates back to sometime between the Spanish–American War and 1913, when the U.S. Navy began issuing them as undergarments.〔http://tshirtspotlight.com/history-of-the-t-Shirt/〕 The word ''T-shirt'' became part of American English by the 1920s, and appeared in the ''Merriam-Webster Dictionary''.〔 Following World War II, it became common to see veterans wearing their uniform trousers with their T-shirts as casual clothing. The shirts became even more popular in the 1950s after Marlon Brando wore one in ''A Streetcar Named Desire'', finally achieving status as fashionable, stand-alone, outerwear garments. Often boys wore them while doing chores and playing outside, eventually opening up the idea of wearing them as general-purpose casual clothing. Printed T-shirts were in limited use by 1942 when an Air Corps Gunnery School T-shirt appeared on the cover of ''Life'' magazine. In the 1960s, printed T-shirts gained popularity for self-expression as well for advertisements, protests, and souvenirs.〔 Current versions are available in many different designs and fabrics, and styles include crew-neck and V-neck shirts. File:Ww2-oiler-Arnold-R-Fesser.jpg|US Merchant Marine sailor in 1944 File:Seriously wounded soldier of the 116th Engineers, prior to his operation at the 121st Evacuation Hospital, in... - NARA - 530636.tif|US Engineers and medics wearing T-shirts in 1951, during the Korean War File:Frankie Say War! Hide Yourself" t-shirt.jpg|T-shirts with bold slogans were popular in the UK in the 1980s. File:ValerieD'Orazio11.15.08ByLuigiNovi1.jpg|Front of comic book creator Valerie D'Orazio's T-shirt in November 2008 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「T-shirt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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