T-shirts are a visual history of pop culture from military underwear and blank cotton canvases for self exploring art and political, humorous, sarcastic and brand messages in the total history of fashion. T-shirt has become the icon of pop cultures of all decades and is denim jeans mirror of the upper body language, but in edition to this it has been wearied from everything as suits, weddings, punks, artistes, political events. Military action to clever brand awareness marketing actions. If there is a unique common icon of pop culture is the t-shirt. To do the whole history of t.-shirt is imposable to do within my abilities to research so I have used some really good sources of information as well as a few of my personal favorite tees. Unfortunately as I over the years have from time to time a stall open at some market I sold a few of them. Amongst them some hand printed and exclusive tees made by Malcolm Mc Laren in the Sex pistols. Others has been sold as The who signed tees from the 70’s, the unique messages from The The, Bauhouse, Krafrtwerk German editions, Dead Kennedy’s early San Francisco Tees and a few well know street art artists and Gallery artistes from NY, London, and Tokyo to China. The common message is that a tee shirt has become my closest friend to a worn out Levi’s 501 jeans. I favorite Two Pack Tees from Levi’s was my favorite even not the original tees. But I used to see how long I could wear them and later on I made spray painted one off as Sonic youth and my best one for a Fugazize concert in the early 90’s. A stencil and black car paint did the job them. Smelly as hell as I had to use my washing machine otherwise a mixture of car paint and beer would knock us all out in madhouse of an Fugazi punk concert somewhere in a squatted house in Oslo where I only made 10 ones and till own the one I kept myself. To make them yourself is quite a job if you like them worn out and punk street wise. Please do not buy those made by big chains as they are in bad quality and mostly environmental unfriendly ones. But if you buy a few 2nd hand or find in your back closet some old ones or as your neighbor metal fn or an old punk friend I am sure he will give you some he would have throes in the garbage a longtime ago. You can overprint almost anything and I really like the dirty white ones my self. You can beat them up first handed by using warm water and primp stones in a sac or I you make the put them in a washing machine use a three or four bags of pirmstons or other ones a bit heavy and wash them together with a 105-10 ones. Do not add to much washing powder as it does harm to the environment, but make sure use as little water and temperature as possible and control the float of water. The water can be used the flush down the toilets or other activities that require water that does not need to be as clean to begin with. A motor engine or a really dirty old car. That should do it. Thanks to sources as the brilliant books Ripped-

1. icons of
pop culture
by kenneth @ buddha jeans
™

3. pop culture t-shirts
a visual history
from military
underwear

4. from suits & weddings

5. religious symbols
political activism
clever brand
awareness

6. I sold a few classics

7. all time favorite
mirror of the upper body
the jeans dirty friend

8. San
early
Francisco punk
singer and leader Yellow Biafra
was 2nd on the candidate for
city hall mare of
San Francisco

9. ’
knock us all out in madhouse

10. concert in
squatted house
early 90’s
hand made
stencil art

11. To make them yourself
is quite a job
made by big brands
they look bad
bad quality

12. the full story on t-shirts
but now enjoy
thanks to book and sources. You find
out on my blog and can order from
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hacienda

17. Sex Pistols

19. the clash

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