If you’ve been following our posts on Facebook and Twitter, then you’ve been reading our T-shirt Facts. Now we’re going to test how well you’ve been paying attention with this T-shirt trivia!

 

1) T-shirts were originally worn as……..

 

2) By the year ……….., the word “T-shirt” became an official American-English word in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

 

3) A T-Shirt’s defining characteristic is the T shape made with the body and sleeves. It is normally associated with short sleeves, a round neck line, and no collar.

 

4) In 1939, the first promotional T-shirt was printed for the movie………

 

5) In the early 1950s several companies based in Miami, Florida, started to decorate T-shirts with different resort names and various characters. The first company was………

 

6) John Wayne, Marlon Brando and ……….. popularized the T-shirt in movies during the 1950’s.

 

7) In 1959, …………….., a more durable and stretchable ink, was invented. This allowed for much more variety in designs & a realization that being in the T-shirt business could prove to be a money-making venture.

 

8) ……………% of Americans claim to own a favorite T-shirt.

 

9) 62% of Americans claim to own more than ………….. T-shirts.

 

10) …………….. leads all countries in cotton production, producing a whopping 32 million bales per year.

 

 

Think you know it? Post your answers, next to the corresponding number, in the comment section below! We’ll reply back  in a few days with the answers!

 

Sincerely,

OmniPrint International