Nobody might have imagined that clothes used as an undergarment during 19th century will become a fashion statement in 21st century and will be called as t- shirt or tee. T- Shirts were used by miners and stevedores during 19 century as it was preferable and best for hot environment. But now T-Shirts have become a fashion statement for all age groups and for both men and women. It comes in various styles and colours and is a very comfortable garment.


A T-Shirt is a kind of shirt that do not have buttons and collars, have short sleeves and usually with a round neck line. T-Shirts are prepared of cotton and some other fibres and are stitched as a jersey to give it a gentle texture. Text and pictures are often used on T-Shirts to make it more meaningful and fashionable.


It has been known as T-Shirt after the shape of its garment outline. T-Shirts are easy to wear, easy to maintain and cheap hence they became trend among new generation. They come in variety of shapes, colours and designs. In 1960s ringer T-shirts were famous among youths. Slowly many manufacturers used variety of methods to beautify T-shirts like plastisol ink and tie-dyeing. Plastisol brought a remarkable change in T-Shirt printing. Among different methods used for decorating the T-Shirts most preferred is screen printing.


In screen T-Shirt printing, plastisol or water based inks are used with the help of mesh screens and then colours are applied on the design. Usually process printing or stimulated method is used in screen printing to make a T-Shirt attractive. These processes widen the availability of colours when there are limited numbers of colours. Process printing gives best outcome on light
coloured T- Shirts whereas stimulated process gives best results on dark coloured T-shirts. Nowadays use of water based inks is superseded with plastisol by companies as it can be used on varieties of colours.


Typical inks like shimmer, puff, discharge and chino based inks are also used in screen printing. Specialty inks are very expensive and are useful in boutiques. T-Shirts dyed using different colours were very popular in UK during 1980s but its main drawback was that the dye used to go while washing or it used to dye other clothes too.

Apart from screen printing other methods which are used for enhancing T-Shirts are airbrush, appliqué, embroidery, embossing, heat transfers or dye- sublimation transfers. With advent of laser printer, designs are printed on plain papers using special toner with sublimation dyes and then transferred on T-shirts through the heat-transferred process.


Nowadays, many websites have given the opportunity to design and print our own T-Shirts online. This is known as Direct to garment or DTG printing. Previously DTG was not producing successful results as it did not work on dark colours but now with the help of print manufacturers like T-jet even dark colour T-Shirts can also be printed with wide range of colour options.


Nowadays, T-Shirts have become a well known tool for advertising, promoting products, companies, films and websites.



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