Never Underestimate The Power Of Stupid People In Large Groups Shirt
It becomes instantly obvious that the t-shirt’s role as a platform for sloganeering lies simply in being innocuous – like a second skin, it does away with any distractions that could otherwise undermine the impact of a punchy political statement.It’s easy to mock the potential impact a t-shirt can have on politics. But as the exhibition makes clear, it’s a two-part process: using the wider awareness that a t-shirt can bring to a cause, then harnessing that attention to encourage others to incite real change. You have to start somewhere, and wearing your heart (quite literally) on your sleeve can force difficult conversations to take place in the open. As the grande dame of the political t-shirt, Katharine Hamnett, puts it: “a successful t-shirt has to make you think but then, crucially, you have to act.”
Never Underestimate The Power Of Stupid People In Large Groups Shirt
The history of the t-shirt has always been inseparable from social and economic concerns: initially developed by the U.S. Navy as a practical form of underwear that could be easily washed, this versatile new garment allowed uniforms to be worn for days in a row. From here it spread to other industries requiring manual labour, specifically agriculture and manufacturing. In this sense, the plain white tee has always been tied to social hierarchy, as the first uniform of the post-industrial working class – although ironically, the term ‘t-shirt’ was coined in the 1920s by that famous chronicler of America’s great and good: F. Scott Fitzgerald.