New York-based T shirt supplier Anvil Knitwear Official Sponsor for Farm Aid 2009

Anvil Knitwear Named Official T-shirt Supplier of Farm Aid 2009

Oct 8, 2009

New York-based Anvil Knitwear announced it will be a sponsor and the official T-shirt supplier of Farm Aid 2009, presented by Horizon Organic in St. Louis on October 4 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. Farm Aid is a nonprofit organization that has raised nearly $36 million to promote a strong and resilient family farm system of agriculture.

"Farm Aid's mission of sustaining family farms is extremely important to us,” said Anthony Corsano, Anvil Knitwear CEO. “We are the largest domestic buyer of organic cotton grown in the United States, and most of our organic cotton comes from family farms. We have made a commitment to U.S. organic cotton farmers that we will buy only U.S.-grown organic cotton for our AnvilOrganic T-shirt line as long as there is enough of it to supply our needs, and our new AnvilSustainable T-shirt supports farmers that are transitioning their fields to organic. Hopefully it will encourage other farmers to do the same."

Farm Aid is offering tees from Anvil's Eco Collection as part of its fundraising initiatives on its Web site, www.farmaid.org, and at the concert at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater.

Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews headline the event, along with Wilco, Jason Mraz, Gretchen Wilson, Jamey Johnson, Billy Joe Shaver, and Phosphorescent.

Anvil will demonstrate how its AnvilSustainable and AnvilOrganic tees are made featuring a working model of Eli Whitney's original cotton gin at an on-site booth as part of the HOMEGROWN Village at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on Sunday afternoon from 12 to 6 p.m.

About Anvil Knitwear

Anvil Knitwear Inc., a socially and environmentally responsible manufacturer of sportswear and accessories, is a leader in the sustainable apparel industry with its AnvilOrganic, AnvilRecycled and AnvilSustainable brands. Anvil Knitwear was recently ranked the world's sixth-largest organic program and the largest domestic purchaser of U.S.-grown certified organic cotton. Anvil Knitwear offers 15 affordable eco styles made from a variety of fibers such as certified organic cotton, transitional cotton, recycled cotton, and recycled PET bottles and blends in addition to its over 90 traditional styles.

For more information, please visit www.anvilknitwear.com and www.anvilcsr.com.

About Farm Aid

Farm Aid's mission is to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America. Farm Aid artists and board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews host an annual concert to raise funds to support Farm Aid's work with family farmers and to inspire people to choose family-farmed food. Since 1985, Farm Aid, with the support of the artists who contribute their performances each year, has raised nearly $36 million to support programs that help farmers thrive, create and strengthen connections between farmers and eaters, take action to change the dominant system of industrial agriculture and promote food from family farms.

History of the T shirt

History of the T-shirt

It’s hard to imagine life without the t-shirt. Yet, “t-shirt” didn’t become a word in the English dictionary until the 1920’s and the style didn’t enter mainstream fashion until the 1960’s.

During W.W.I, American troops wore wool uniforms during hot summer days in Europe and noticed European soldiers wearing lightweight cotton undershirts. This cool apparel caught on fast with the Americans and by W.W.II, both the Army and the Navy included them in their uniforms.

Up until the 1950’s, t-shirts were still considered underwear, until John Wayne, Marlon Brando, and James Dean shocked Americans by wearing their “underwear” on T.V. In 1955, James Dean helped make the T-shirt a standard item of clothing in Rebel Without a Cause.

Advances in Screenprinting gave people the opportunity to print on T-shirts in the 1960’s. Tye dying also become popular in addition to other forms of the t-shirt, such as tank tops and muscle shirts. In the late sixties and seventies, people began to realize that printing on t-shirts could be a lucrative business. Rock and Roll bands and professional athletic teams started to make huge profits selling custom screen printed t-shirts.

Since then, t-shirts have only become more popular in the United States and are a staple in the American wardrobe. TV personalities have increased the popularity of custom t-shirts and “message shirts” by wearing them on highly rated shows and celebrities have used them as a way to communicate with the public. Because they are both convenient and fun, it is doubtful that the t-shirt will disappear from American culture anytime soon.



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