I love t-shirts. I wear them all the time. While a tailored suit is my standard uniform when I’m out and about representing myself or any endeavor with which I’m associated, my uniform at home is a t-shirt and jeans (which I’m wearing as I type this in my apartment).
Is there anything simpler or more iconic, accessible and essential in a man’s wardrobe?
The white t-shirt was originally an undergarment with roots in the military. The white tee started to get traction as a legitimate outer garment with the help of some iconic cultural tentpoles in the middle of the twentieth century, most notably Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955).
In this episode of The George Hahn Podcast, I lend my perspective on the cost of clothing and our often unreasonable expectations about it. To me, the expectation of the cost of a very simple garment like a t-shirt or…