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What Makes us Want to Wear T-Shirts?

From the catwalk to the building site and everywhere in between, these simple garments are strangely powerful things鈥� but with humble origins.

They鈥檙e something you probably see every day鈥� maybe hundreds of them, thousands. Plain ones, coloured ones, funny ones. Often they鈥檙e promotional, sometimes provocative. They鈥檙e so common that they鈥檙e very easy to ignore.

From the catwalk to the building site and everywhere in between, these simple garments can be tools of the rebel, the protestor, the campaigner, the corporate marketeer. They are strangely powerful things鈥� but with humble origins.

Produced by Bob Howard

(Photo: Man wearing a T-Shirt with President Vladimir Putin crossed out in red at a protest in Barcelona. Credit: Getty Images)

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