| Frankly, can you name anybody that truly does | | | | in the middle. Punk fans still love T-shirts with |
| not love T-shirts? Even the most sober, uptight | | | | anarchy symbols or other types of similar slogans. |
| person you see walking down the street wearing | | | | A contrast in the T-shirts design area intervened |
| a complicated outfit wishes he or she was | | | | around the mid 1980s, when the anti-fashion |
| wearing nothing but a T-shirt, because it is the | | | | sub-genre of hardcore punk began to emerge. |
| regular sign of comfort. | | | | Bands like Minor Threat and Bad Brains were |
| Out of all the options, a very interesting T-shirts | | | | among the pioneers of the genre. By this time, |
| design is the black concert T-shirt. As associated | | | | everything was already second-hand and not |
| sometimes to black metal fashion or to punk | | | | exactly very shock-oriented. Political and social |
| fashion (generally popular among rock lovers of all | | | | messages remained, but their writing took |
| sorts), such T-shirts represent a fashion trend | | | | advantage of markers. |
| usually connected with attending rock concerts. | | | | In addition, black concert T-shirts stayed popular |
| The practice has spread from the seventies until | | | | in their turn, although quite faded and used. After |
| the present day, thanks to all sorts of musical | | | | all, people did still love T-shirts, regardless of the |
| groups that resort to these as a form of | | | | changing times. Moreover, the hardcore punk |
| advertising. They either give these T-shirts away | | | | movement helped take slogans that one could |
| or sell them, in order to promote their band at all | | | | find on T-shirts belonging to bands like the Sex |
| sorts of events including official releases and | | | | Pistols to a higher level of better understanding |
| concerts. | | | | (such as "NO FUTURE", a somewhat political |
| The T-shirts design is generally simple, black, with | | | | statement made in the Sex Pistols' song "God |
| contrasting graphics in the front as well as in the | | | | Save the Queen"). Sometimes, the similar band |
| back. Although now a part of any fan's everyday | | | | names or slogans appeared as manually written |
| wardrobe, worn generally with jeans, but also with | | | | on the tails of plaid shirts. |
| dark pants or skirts, fans generally love T-shirts | | | | The anti-fashion tendency associated with |
| of this kind because they are great for wearing | | | | hardcore punk went even further, and by the late |
| at concerts. People may choose to wear them to | | | | 1980s, both males and females wore extremely |
| performances belonging to similar bands as the | | | | simple outfits centered on plain T-shirts with |
| one displayed on the T-shirt, thus showing | | | | low-cost shoes and simple jeans. However, |
| affiliation to a specific genre. On the other hand, | | | | owning a T-shirt with the logo of a beloved band |
| they may choose to wear them at an opposing | | | | is a punk habit that lives on to this very day. This |
| band's concert, as a sign of affection towards the | | | | applies successfully to the latest hardcore (which |
| band on the T-shirt and disapproval of the | | | | eventually evolved out of hardcore punk), |
| performing band. | | | | regardless of its subgenres (what is outrageous in |
| A distinct T-shirts design also played an important | | | | one area of hardcore may very well be |
| role in punk fashion, especially at its beginnings. | | | | completely acceptable in another, but band |
| Generally aggressive, a successful punk T-shirt | | | | T-shirts remain popular regardless of other |
| had to be offensive and shocking at the same | | | | factors). |
| time. Most of them wore signs of deliberate | | | | Whether they are brand new or faded, whole or |
| tearing and perhaps staining with paint, preferably | | | | intentionally torn like crust punk fans like it, each |
| red, showing messages such as "Destroy", | | | | of us will love T-shirts with bands on them. This |
| sometimes chaotically, sometimes with simplicity, | | | | T-shirts design has never lost its popularity. |