A brief history of the shirt (I)


The shirt has become in recent decades the undisputed queen of the summer months. It was not always so, because until the late fifties of the twentieth century, it was considered an undergarment.
Its origin goes back to World War I, which was used by European soldiers as part of basic military equipment, and in general it was in use as complement of the shirt and covered by this one, without never being exterior.
It would the world of cinema that extract them from the world of lingerie to turn them into an outer garment and habitual. James Dean would make it definitively fashionable in "Rebel Without a Cause", though before that John Wayne or Marlon Brando had taken it in the world of the cinema.
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