03 Feb 10 T-Shirt Facts
Here are 10 facts that we bet you didn’t know about T-Shirts & Screenprinting!
 1. There are approximately 2 billion t-shirts sold worldwide each year! |
 2. In 1939 the first promotional t-shirt was printed for the movie “The Wizard of Oz”. |
 3. Cotton will retain 24-27 times its own weight in water and is stronger wet than when dry. |
 4. T-Shirts made from recycled cotton prevent over five billion tons of textile waste from entering landfills each year. |
 5. There are 35,000 Cotton Farms in the U.S. |
 6. Annual Dollars Generated by Industry Cotton: $25Billion |
 7. It takes SIX MILES of yarn to make one t-shirt! |
 8. About 62% of Americans claim to own more than ten t-shirts in their wardrobe. That’s roughly 1.5 billion shirts – line those up end to end, and they’d circle the globe 34 times. |
 9. The world’s largest t-shirt is 170 ft. X 262 ft. and is approximately the size of a football field! Gildan Activewear created this humongous garment! |
 10. The most expensive t-shirt in the world costs $405,000! The shirt is shown below. What makes this so expensive is there is a set of 16 diamonds that add up to a total of 9 carats! |
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