T-shirts: How They Are Made To Make A Trend In Fashion

It is hardly to imagine that clothes used as an undergarment during 19th century will develop as a fashion statement in 21st century and will be called as t- shirt or tee. T- Shirts were usmostly used by miners and stevedores during 19 century as it was appropriate for hot environment. But now T-Shirts have become a style and trend for all age groups and for both men and women. It is available in different design pattern and colours and is a very comfortable garment.

A T-Shirt is a kind of shirt without having buttons and collars, having short sleeves and usually with a round neck line. T-Shirts are usually made of cotton and some other fibres and are stitched as a jersey to give it a desirable texture. Text and pictures are often used on T-Shirts to make it beautiful and attractive.

It has been named as T-Shirt considering the shape of its garment outline. T-Shirts are easy to fit, easy to clean and inexpensive hence they became a tendency among new generation. They can be found in different shapes, colours and patterns. In 1960s ringer T-shirts were a trand among youths. Gradually many manufacturers used different technique to decorate T-shirts like plastisol ink and tie-dyeing. Plastisol brought a new dimension in T-Shirt printing. Among different methods used for enhancing the T-Shirts most popular is screen printing.

In screen T-Shirt printing, plastisol or water based inks are utilised with the help of mesh screens and then colours are applied on the design. Usually process printing or stimulated process is applied in screen printing to decorate a T-Shirt. These processes produce good results for different colours when there are limited numbers of colours. Process printing is mainly applied for light coloured T- Shirts whereas stimulated process gives best results on dark coloured T-shirts. Nowadays in place of water based inks many companies are using plastisol as it can be used on wide spectrum of colours.

Specialty inks like shimmer, puff, discharge and chino based inks are also involved in screen printing. Specialty inks are very costly and are used in boutiques. T-Shirts dyed using different colours were very popular among people in UK during 1980s but its main demerit was that the dye used to go while washing or it used to colour other clothes too.

Apart from screen printing other methods which are used for decorating T-Shirts are airbrush, appliqué, embroidery, embossing, heat transfers or dye- sublimation transfers. With the help of laser printer, designs are printed on plain papers using special toner with sublimation dyes and then transferred on T-shirts through the heat-transferred process.

Nowadays, many websites have provided the facility to design and print our own T-Shirts online. This is called as Direct to garment or DTG printing. Previously DTG was not successful as it did not prodce results on dark colours but now with the help of print manufacturers like T-jet even dark colour T-Shirts can also be printed with wide range of colour options.

Nowadays, T-Shirts have become a popular medium for advertising, promoting products, companies, films and websites.


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