The T-Shirt

The T-Shirt came about in 1932 when USC's head football coach, Howard Jones, asked the Jockey underwear company to come up with a shirt the team could wear that would absorb sweat on a hot Saturday afternoon. Jones was a remarkable player and coach who never lost a game in his three seasons playing for Yale, and coached six more undefeated teams in his career. One of his players at Southern Cal was John Wayne. The shirt became standard issue for American soldiers in World War II. The earliest report of a political T-shirt carrying a slogan was sixty years ago when the Presidential campaign of Republican Thomas Dewey produced a shirt saying "Dew It for Dewey".