![]() You can, however, use our vintage t-shirt and brand archive to search through our tag database. We have streamlined this guide to present some of the most commonly occurring brands in their various forms. ![]() There are just too many companies from these decades to display them all. Just because you don’t see a brand listed here, that doesn’t mean the item in question isn’t vintage. How do I know if a t-shirt tag is vintage? Woven tags started to become even more common. In this era, there was a trend back toward 100% cotton. Some of these companies didn’t actually manufacture t-shirts so they had their labels sewn into other blanks produced by FOTL and Hanes. Music and concert merchandising became an even bigger business and had dedicated licensing brands like Brockum, Giant, Wild Oats, Gem, and even Liquid Blue. Some companies merged together – for example, Screen Stars would slowly morph into “Best” by Fruit of the Loom. While many new big-name players emerged in the 1990s, just as many faded away. We also begin to see music-specific tags that originated in the 1970s, gaining momentum, like Winterland. Specialty brands like 3D Emblem also rose to huge popularity in the 1980s. Labels such as Logo 7, Artex, and Trench made many of the best t-shirts, jerseys, and sweatshirts featuring popular athletic names, teams, and styles in the 1980s. Some brands were produced in Pakistan, others began following Champion and manufactured tees for sports-related purposes. The branding became more obvious and the tags often had two color designs. Each of these vintage brands went through different phases of label designs which can easily be linked to a particular period. Brands such as Screen Stars, Hanes, Anvil, and Sportswear were some of the most widely manufactured t-shirts. Some focused on producing a variety of colors, while others specialized in making different styles of shirts, including ringers and jerseys. Many popular brands emerged in the 1980s. These tags will often be blank or frayed as a result of wear, wash, and age. Sometimes tags didn’t have a link to a specific company aside from an RN number. If a 1970s tag features branding it was more often a simple design and one color. But it was also an era of plain, generic tags. Hanes, Healthknit, Champion, Sportswear, Russell, and FOTL were among the mainstream brands with recognizable tags. It wasn’t until the late 1970s that 50/50 tees became the norm. Alan Henry, Wired’s service editor, who wears between an XXL and a 3XL, said the fit on the classic J.Crew in XXL was a little tight, but that the length on his 5-foot 7-inch frame was great.Tees from the 70s will more often be 100% cotton. We tested the shirt in its standard cut, but it also comes in Slim and Tall, the latter of which adds 2 inches to both the body and sleeve length. The J.Crew shirt comes in sizes XS through XXL, which is a decent range, though we’d love to see that expand further. After this T-shirt was washed and dried, it shrank by 2 inches total-less shrinkage than with many other shirts we tested in this price range. Wirecutter’s deputy editor Jason Chen described it as “how a T-shirt should fit.” Chen, who wears a size M, also noted that the length of the shirt was perfect for tucking in, but it wasn’t so long that the shirt looked sloppy if he wore it untucked. The collar was just right, neither too narrow nor too wide. ![]() Together we discovered a universally praised white T-shirt of exceptional quality, a more-versatile shirt with a boxier fit, a super-soft slim-cut tee, an affordable white T-shirt that comes in many sizes, and (my personal favorite) an off-white, high-quality (and pricey) splurge.Īcross all testers of different sizes, the J.Crew T-shirt’s seams hit the right spot on their shoulders, and its sleeves didn’t ride up. To evaluate quality, fit, and comfort, I inspected 128 of them online, tested 36 in person, and consulted a panel of diverse and stylish men, including Choire Sicha, former editor of The New York Times’s Style section Jesse Thorn, founder of Put This On Bruce Sturgell, founding editor of Chubstr Alan Henry, Wired’s service editor and Wirecutter deputy editor Jason Chen. ![]() These five are our favorites-high-quality, stylish shirts in a number of fits, at prices suited to most any budget. There are literally hundreds of white T-shirts out there. You can wear it solo, splash it with accessories, cover it with a sweater, or, if you’re the protagonist of a certain André Aciman novel, toss it on the dock when you go for an impromptu swim in Italy circa 1983.
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