Graphic t-shirts with images on them displaying your favorite musician, sports team, or characters have been ubiquitous since the ’50s. But would you believe the graphic t-shirt might actually have originated somewhere over the rainbow ? In a video which you can watch below from Alex Rabinowitz of Pop Culture Brain (via Laughing Squid ), we learned that the first documented graphic t-shirts appearing in film were in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz . We see them for mere seconds on workers in the Emerald City, getting Tin Man and Scarecrow back into shape. They are green shirts that simply have the words “Oz” in white font written on them. Simple, but revolutionary.

The t-shirt itself didn’t become popular in North American society until after World War II. In the early part of the 20th

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