Tool Shirts As Self-expression: Funny Tee Shirts Are The Rage

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"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society" was said by Mark Twain, and that saying still is true. Our society has urbanized into one that uses apparel as a way to convey one's social status. You can simply flip through the pages of a woman's fashion magazine to read breathless coverage of the fashion statements being made on the couture runways of Paris, Milan, and New York. You can listen to a gaggle of high school girls decrying the must-have fashion accessory of last season as "so last year." Even men are not unaffected to the whims of the fashionistas - chiefly those fashion moguls who were once (or still are) hip hop moguls in Tool Shirts.

If men and women both use apparel to convey social status, they also use it as a means of self-expression. The fictitious fashion editor in "The Devil Wears Prada" is always accessorized with a white Hermes scarf. Donald Trump is famous for his colorful neckties. And Woody Harrelson is well known for wearing hemp.

Beginning in the 1960s, Tool shirts became a means of self-expression. Back then, plain white T-shirts transformed into tie-dye ...
... works of art proclaiming the rise of "flower power" and urging, "Make love, not war" in Tool Shirts. Soon, messages began appearing on T-shirts using silk screening or screen printing on these Tool Shirts. Bands began selling branded Tool shirts to their fans at concerts, and young people began wearing band T-shirts as a symbol of their personal identities.

For the past few decades, graphic tees like Tool Shirts have also been used as promotional and branding tools. Whether the word "Gap" is emblazoned across the front of a T-shirt or a depiction of a favorite Disney character adorns the wearer, the Tool shirt has become a means of marketing a product or brand

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