Papperskatt
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Haha, it took me a while to realise that they didn't mean cool as we use it today..."Coolest thing ever" Haha
Haha, it took me a while to realise that they didn't mean cool as we use it today..."Coolest thing ever" Haha
Buddy Ebsen wears a Mickey Mouse jersey in Broadway Melodies of 1936 in his role as a comic dancer.You'll see quite a few young men wearing shirts like that in the various New York Worlds Fair home movies that are floating around -- they were quite popular casual wear in the summer of 1939-40. But they weren't *undershirts,* they were sold and worn as sportswear.
Printed novelty T-shirts for kids with pictures of popular licensed characters were being sold in the Sears catalog as early as 1948, but they go back even further than that. Somewhere around here I have a 1941-dated snapshot of my uncle wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with an iron-on picture of Captain Marvel. But I don't think too many grown men would have gone around in such a shirt.
One of the earliest graphic t-shirt I've ever seen: