Marcus Wainwright, Gautum Dutta, David Neville, and Steven Kolb

Gautam Dutta, Vitaminwater Color Collection design winner attends the announcement of the Vitaminwater Color Collection winner at the Empire Hotel Rooftop on September 15, 2011 in New York City. Vitaminwater Announces Color Collection Winner Empire Hotel Rooftop New York, NY United States September 15, 2011 Photo by Jamie McCarthy/WireImage.com To license this image (125062520), contact WireImage.com

(L-R) Designer Marcus Wainright of Rag and Bone,Gautam Dutta, Vitaminwater Color Collection design winner,designer David Neville of Rag and Bone and Steven Kolb, CFDA CEO attend the announcement of the Vitaminwater Color Collection winner at the Empire Hotel Rooftop on September 15, 2011 in New York City. Vitaminwater Announces Color Collection Winner Empire Hotel Rooftop New York, NY United States September 15, 2011 Photo by Jamie McCarthy/WireImage.com To license this image (125062529), contact WireImage.com

This dry waxed duffle Cro’jack rain jacket is so classically Paddington Bear meets my burly fisherman fantasy.  The leather toggles balance out the bold yellow color making for the perfect men’s rain jacket.  Another bonus? Its on sale.

Death. Demons. Shrimp? The Savannah, Georgia born Shrimp Sauce brings a little mischief to the their debut collection of tees. You can grab the collection which features knives, masked men, wolves and of course, shrimp at their newly opened online store.

Celebrating Sesame Street‘s 40th anniversary, American Apparel the California-based clothing company will release a “limited-edition”  t-shirt that will feature line drawings of Jim Henson‘s characters.

My beloved past time Jim Hensen characters of The Muppets and Sesame Street, are to be feature on American Apparel tees. Not sure if I feel to comfortable with Dov Charney pimping-out my puppet friends. Wait, I can see it now Bert and Ernie plastered on a tee that a jailbait porn-stars is modeling. Being that there’s still a much younger generation that still watches them, this idea does not seem very tactful.

Dov, I’ve heard you don’t even have permission to print the Hensen.

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Every “issue” of T-Post is actually a T-shirt, making it completely wearable. 

“The way it works is that the editors find a current, newsworthy topic and write an article about it. Then they send the article to an artist who reinterprets it as a T-shirt graphic that becomes the “cover” of the issue, and the article text is printed inside.

T-post says it is using “fashion and art to spread the word about things that are important to us and the world using one of the best pop culture mediums ever invented: The graphic T-shirt.”

The limited-edition T-shirts are approximately $28 per issue and available by subscription on the magazine’s website.

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Another fashion-art hybrid, this t-shirt should have been included in my history of t-shirts post, because I’ve never seen anything life it before. Regardless of if you would or could even wear this it’s worth mentioning for it’s sheer uniqueness.

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T-shirts may never go out of style, but as with any fashion item they have gone through their fair share of trends. Click to see view their progression from underwear to couture.

T-shirt’s were first worn by American soldiers in World War I as undershirts because they were cool and comfortable. Everyone has some basic Hanes in their closet, even Marlon Brando. In the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire Brando’s controversial fitted t-shirt had to be sewn in the back as one could not yet buy fitted t-shirts. James Dean was also a pioneer of this underwear as outerwear look; with such sexy iconic men wearing them no wonder the t-shirt is such a long lasting piece of trendy clothing.

In the late 50′s screen printing began on shirts in Miami, Florida. Used to publicize resorts and fictional characters, Mickey Mouse was one of the first screen printed t-shirts to become popular! Still popular today, Mickey Mouse has quite the history in fashion! (Who knew!)

The 60′s t-shirts worn by hippies can be defined by one awful word: tie-die. Thankfully, we have replaced this phenomenon with the much nicer looking and involving less clashing color color fading known as ombre. Ringer shirts also became popular with wanna-be rock stars in the late 60′s.

The 80′s brought the invention of thermochromism dyes into the t-shirt world, which cause the fabric to change color in the heat. American Apparel has attempted to bring back these t-shirts which are sure to be a nightmare if you forget to put on your deodorant. The 80′s also mark the time when t-shirts began to be used for personal expression, such as anti-war statements.

A lot of advertising for designers in the 90′s was done for free by consumers courtesy of t-shirts. Designer logo t-shirts were a huge trend that rivaled Britney Spears’ ever-present crop top. Apparently, the crop top is coming back. Wear with high wasted skirts to cover your belly button, please and thank you.

The new millennium’s celebrity infatuation ushered in the trend of humorous/ironic t-shirts. The Team Aniston/Jolie trend has been replicated with many other celebrities since then. Websites now make personalized screen-printing widely available, so you can make your own “feed the models” t-shirts: we all know they need some more meat on those bones. American Apparel t-shirts (left) are the most popular for screen-printing because of their availability and softness.

Recently, t-shirts have become more expensive then ever. Know as “it t-shirts”, this fad includes the Olsen Twins line The Row where t-shirts are made with couture details and cost around $250. Raquel Allegra’s t-shirts, which retail for $490, are hand shredded and have been a big hit with the DIY culture. 

One things for sure, t-shirts will always be around. What do you think will be the next t-shirt trend?

I know everyone is talking about them, and most of you have probably seen them but these limited edition summer tees are pretty cool. The shirts feature bold designs by artists like Jeff Koons, Chuck Close, Kiki Smith, Marilyn Minter, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Kenny Scharf, and Kerry James Marshall. I gotta say, these are pretty nifty, and at those prices, I think I’m going to join the rat pack and pick one up.