II. Main part

2.1 “Evolution” of the inscription on clothes

T-shirt - a piece of clothing, in which there are no buttons, collar and pockets. This garment first appeared in North America, perhaps surprisingly, during the First World War, when American soldiers had easy underwear made of cotton. The word T-shirt - exclusively Russian, and original name of the article of clothing - T-shirt, which literally sounds like "T-shirt". In the USSR, the word "shirt" came, as a definition of the top of the shape of a soccer player.

Inscriptions on clothes existed many centuries ago. And the earliest known to us by the history of ancient Greece. Then they can be seen on a variety of Italian and German portraits of the late XV and XVI centuries, inscriptions woven into the pattern of men's shirts, women's dresses in corsages, which are typically written in Latin mottos or noble birth, or the names of the owners of these portraits. And if we talk about more modern period, the labels decorated with the shape of the workers, indicating their status in the workplace, then they began to show a designer or acompany this thing, and after that began to appear signs, in fact, carry meaning.

Also the idea to write anything on clothing is closely linked with the emergence of political slogans. The ideas of the various movements for a long time expressed on paper and then moved to the clothes in the form of slogans on T-shirts. 3 The slogans express the values ​​and objectives of the people who protest, united often not familiar with each other participants express the human position. Today, express their thoughts or principles also can be on clothes, but most often it is not related to politics. No one knows who first thought up to write inscriptions on clothes.

Inscriptions are different and change as a person growing up. Nowadays, for a child - it's just some funny word on clothes, a teenager - quotes, replica movie characters, comics, loud slogans. Adults people understand that on the clothes can be written that is not for them age or something obscene, try to choose clothes without labels - is the right decision, as opposed to teens who are just looking at the beautiful style and fun characters.

2.2 Style element or provocation?

Before the appearance of a man in street clothes with an incomprehensible inscription in English it meant nothing in the public eye, as a provocation and a challenge.

Already in the 60s T-shirts printed image and make different inscriptions. It was created on t-shirts printed for the expression of the free spirit, t-shirts have become the distributor of the political slogans, personal beliefs.

Today, most people use the T-shirts are increasingly foreign-language, for example, to make a surprise for his birthday. Modern technologies allow to give the object to the desired inscription, whether it be a mug, clothing with company logo, a favorite quote of the poet, home furnishings.

 And the children, both young and not so young people wear clothing with a foreign-language inscriptions are now fashionable print shop to create these t-shirts, where the inscriptions are perceived as the most stylish interior, especially if they look bright, bold and eye-catching.