Brief history of political t-shirts

Brief History of Political T-shirts Are you Right-wing, Left-wing or just feeling ‘left out’? Are you a headbanger or deep thinker? Politics is more than what’s put on paper or placed in a ballot box; it’s also what you wear on your sleeve, no pun intended. Political tees have made their front prints on modern history, but just how far back do they go? We find that post-WWII society artists acquired a lot of material (and technologies) to work with, and in a few words, they gave birth to a new age of sloganeering. Andy Warhol’s legendary screen prints were some of the first to feature Mao Tse Tung, Seymour H. Knox, John Lennon, the Birmingham Race Riots and others on the big screen print. Roy Lichtenstein, also known as the "Pope of Pop”, made contributions to the comic strip as well as political tees. He even created around 300 screenprints in his lifetime. We’ve sewn together some of the terrible tee’s best moments: Via: http://www.allriot.com

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Brief history of political t-shirts

Published on Feb 16, 2018

Billy Trail

The history of the tee goes back to a land that time forgot, but the political tee goes back... well, not so far back. Nevertheless, its entrance onto the fashion scene demands a proper introduction, which began with Plastisol. From that moment on, a nation disenfranchised voters, businesspeople, and angry protesting students took the chemical and a few Hanes t-shirts to invent the political tee. Psychedelic artist Warren Dayton pioneered the political tee and contributed greatly to corporate branding. He would later found ArtiFact, Ink, a major studio in Diamond Springs, CA. Over 60 years later, political tees have gone strength to strength and have become a major player in the fight for creative (and political) expression.

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