A Printed T-shirt is a T-shirt bearing a design, image or lettering on it. Various types of printed T-shirts exist.

A man displaying printed T Shirt of B. R. Ambedkar.

Concert T-shirt[edit]

Several people wearing black concert T-shirts at a concert.

A concert T-shirt is a T-shirt that is associated with a concert or a concert tour, usually rockor metal. Bands and musical groups often promote themselves by creating and selling or giving away T-shirts at their shows, tours, and events. A concert T-shirt typically contains silk screenedgraphics of the name, logo, or image of a musical performer. One popular graphic on the rear of the T-shirts is a listing of information about the band's current tour, including tour cities (sometimes specifying venues) and corresponding dates.^[1]

One of the most popular colors for concert T-shirts is a flat black.^[2][3] Fans purchase or obtain these shirts to wear to future concerts, often with jeans, dark colored trousers or skirts. Fans may wear the shirt of one band to a concert of another to show their taste in a particular type of music or loyalty to another band or type of music.

Tour dates listed on theDixie Chicks' 2006 Accidents & Accusations Tour T-shirt.

Tourist T-Shirt[edit]

A tourist T-shirt (or souvenir T-shirt) is a shirt associated with travel or a holiday. In recent years T-shirts have become a popular giftor souvenir no matter which country or city the person has gone to. Tourist T-shirt designs are typically screen printed with pictures and words directly associated with a particular city, country or culture. The T-shirts express or show something about the place or places a person has been. Tourist T-shirts are usually an inexpensive souvenir or piece of clothing thus the reason for becoming a popular shopping item during overseas travel.

Course T-Shirt[edit]

A Course T-shirt is a printed T-shirt with a military unit's insignia on it, printed up as a souvenir of attending and/or graduating a course of instruction.^[4] Printed shirts bearing unit insignia (only) date back to at least the Second World War. ^[5] Course t-shirts were in the news internationally after Israeli soldiers were discovered to be wearing t-shirts with anti-Palestinian cartoons on them. In particular, one version showed a pregnant woman in the sights of a sniper rifle, with the slogan "one shot, two kills."^[6] "The T-shirts, ordered by troops to mark the end of basic training and other military courses, were worn by a number of enlisted men in different units, the daily Haaretz newspaper reported. They were not made or sanctioned by the military." Another design depicted a Palestinian child and had the slogan "The smaller they are, the harder it is."^[7]

Art T-Shirt[edit]

Several contemporary artists use T-shirt as a canvas for their work. Art T-shirts can also be mass-produced with screen printing. Famous artists to have released T-shirts are Keith Haring, Takashi Murakami, Damien Hirst, and KAWS.