the simple, cheap ten-dollar t-shirt has proved a fantastic medium for changing fashion from the t-shirts with antiwar slogans of the sixties, to the huge oversized T-shirt of the 80s, to the tight tees of the 90s, right up to the designer brands of the twenty-first century, which an 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 underwear