Political T-shirt
Political T-shirts are ordinary shirts printed with a political slogan or image to express a message. The earliest known example was in 1948 when New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey wore a T-shirt that read "Dew it with Dewey" to support his campaign. The idea caught on, and Eisenhower supporters used similar shirts a few years later. Some say Katharine Hamnett revived the trend in 1984; she wore a shirt reading "58% Don't Want Pershing" and was photographed shaking hands with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at a Downing Street event for London fashion week designers. The slogan referred to opposition to placing US Pershing missiles in the UK during the late Cold War.
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