Product DescriptionThe T-shirt first appears on American radar just before WWI, when the U.S. Navy introduced it as an undershirt. Purpose: to cover sailors’ chest hair.
Did they pull the thing out of thin air? No sir.
The connection between the T-shirt and the sea points us eastward, to the Mediterranean, where sailors and fishermen have worn snug, short-sleeved shirts like this one for centuries.
I thought the oyster-shuckers in Baltimore were fast until, in Piraeus, I saw a man wearing this shirt use a shucking knife; he was faster.
On the banks of the Seine, lots of students and tourists hoping to be mistaken for natives, lots of blue-and-white striped shirts…but that deckhand over there, throwing a hawser out to a tour boat, he’s wearing this shirt.
Men in Europe who wear this shirt are often wiry types with one-inch cigarette butts permanently attached to their lower lips. In Bilbao, though, I observed a crew of moving men uncrating a giant piece of highly advanced sculpture. They were built like great sagging old bulls; in this shirt, they looked formidable.
Wicked-T, in a soft, very stretchy polyester knit that fits snugly. (Makes you feel like a healthy animal.) Tapered sides. Finely ribbed neck, not big and clunky.
The sleeves have a way of gathering emphatically at the top of a man’s arms, even if he is the sort of man who rarely lifts more than a fountain pen.
Men’s sizes: S, M, L, XL, XXL.
Colors: blue, orange, tan, green etc.
Price: $29.
Features Usage Warm weather active
Weight 0 lbs, 4 oz / 140.00 g
Body fabric Koolknit™
• Flatlock construction
• Long cut back
• Quick drying and lightweight
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| jfox | Impressive performance. | | 
Voted 5/5 | I have a couple of these shirts and they feel great on hot days. Very thin/lightweight fabric keeps you cool while hiking, climbing or extreme ironing! Durable for the most part, but can easily snag on bushes etc. so be careful! These can be bought for ~$24 U.S. | | Posted Jun 19, 2007 1:42 pm |
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