Origins
This military branch first used T-shirts as underwear.
American Navy
In this decade, T-shirts became unisex and often featured band logos and political slogans.
The 1970s.
This famous actor wore a white T-shirt and leather jacket in films of the 1950s, helping to make them iconic.
Marlon Brando
The 'T' in T-shirt refers to this characteristic of the garment.
Its shape.
This war saw the first use of leather jackets by fighter pilots.
First World War
This American company designed the first leather motorcycle jacket with a zip in 1928.
Schott
This rock band, known for their leather jackets, helped popularise the garment in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Ramones
This historical event in 1849 led to the development of blue jeans as we know them today.
The Californian Gold Rush
This French city gave its name to the fabric used for jeans.
Nîmes
These two professions were the first to commonly wear blue jeans.
Manual workers and cowboys.
This businessman, despite creating the modern blue jean, never wore a pair himself.
Levi Strauss
In French, this term for blue jeans literally means "blue of Genoa"
"blue of Genoa"