The simple, cheap ten-dollar T-shirt has proved a fantastic medium for changing fashions: from the T-shirts with antiwar slogans of the sixties, to the huge oversized shirts of the 80s, and the tight tees of the 90s, right up to the designer brands of the twenty-first century, which can cost thousands of dollars. The image of the T-shirt as an outerwear and fashion item is now firmly established, and long gone are the days of the T-shirt as underwear.