Cool T-Shirts

COOL

Fashionable and attractive at the time. As in "he's a cool dude" or "that's cool". Cool is an especially cool slang word, most notably among young people. Cool can be used to describe composure and absence of excitement in a person and is often used to express agreement or assent. Robert De Niro is cool for example. Cool is an attitude widely adopted by artists, who aided its infiltration into popular culture. Sought by product marketing firms, idealized by teenagers, "cool" has become a global phenomenon that has spread all over the world. Synonyms of cool include Assured, Composed, Unruffled, Coolheaded, Self-Controlled and Unflappable.

T-SHIRTS

T-shirts are short-sleeved, collarless undershirts, lightweight, usually knitted, pullover shirts, close fitting and with a round neckline and short sleeves, worn as an undershirt or outer garment. A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a shirt, usually buttonless, collarless, and pocket less, with a round neck and mostly (but not necessarily) short sleeves, that are pulled on over the head and covers most of a person's torso. The sleeves of the T-shirt extend at least slightly over the shoulder but not completely over the elbow (in short-sleeve version). A shirt that is either longer or shorter than this ceases to be a T-shirt. T-shirts are typically made of cotton or polyester fibres (or a mix of the two), knitted together in a jersey stitch that gives a T-shirts the distinctive soft texture. T-shirts are often decorated with text and/or pictures, sometimes used to advertise. T-shirt fashions include styles for men and women, and for all age groups, including baby, youth and adult sizes. The origin of the name is uncertain: many refer to the shape of the shirt as a "T", while it could also emphasize the use of the army as a "training shirt". The shape-based theory is supported by the existence of an A-shirt in the 1930s USA, which was the usual undershirt later labelled the tank top. It is also a possibility that the name "tee" comes from amputee, a reference to the shortened length of the arms. T-shirts were originally worn as undershirts. This still occurs, but T-shirts are now also frequently worn as the only piece of clothing on the top half of the body. T-shirts have also become a medium for self-expression and advertising. A T-shirt typically extends to the waist, although one fashion is for "oversized" T-shirts, namely in modern hip hop fashion. A more recent trend in women's clothing involves tight-fitting "cropped" T-shirts that are short enough to reveal the midriff. Another popular trend is wearing a "long-sleeved T-shirt", then putting a short sleeved T-shirt of a different colour over the long sleeved shirt. This is known as "layering". In the 1960s, the Ringer t-shirt appeared and became a staple fashion for youth and rock-n-rollers. The decade also saw the emergence of tie-dyeing and screen printing on the basic T-shirt. In 1959, plastisol, a more durable and stretchable ink, was invented, allowing much more variety in t-shirt designs. The most common form of commercial t-shirt decoration is screen-printing. In screen-printing, a design is separated into individual colors. Plastisol or water based inks are applied to the shirt through mesh screens which limits the areas where ink is deposited. In most commercial T-shirt printing, the specific colors in the design are used. To achieve a wider colour spectrum with a limited number of colors, process printing (using only cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink) or simulated process (using only white, black, red, green, blue, and gold ink) is effective. Process printing is best suited for light colored shirts. Simulated process is best suited for dark colored shirts. Other methods of decoration used on T-shirts include airbrush, appliqué, embroidery, impressing or embossing and the ironing on of either flock lettering, heat transfers, or dye sublimation transfers. Laser printers are capable of printing on plain paper using a special toner containing sublimation dyes which can then be permanently heat-transferred to T-shirts. Since the late 1980s and especially the 1990s, T-shirts with prominent designer-name logos have been popular, especially with teenagers and young adults. These garments allowed consumers to flaunt their taste in designer brands in an inexpensive way, in addition to being decorative. A popular phrase on the front of T-shirts demonstrating T-shirts popularity among tourists is the humorous phrase "I did _____ and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." Examples include "My friend went to London and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." and "My parents went to New York and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." T-shirt exchange is an activity where people trade their tshirts they are wearing. Some designs specifically write on the shirt "trade with me"