T-shirts first came into play in the late 1800s, when the US Navy began issuing them as standard undershirts. It’s down to F Scott Fitzgerald, who coined the term “T-shirt” in his 1920 debut novel This Side Of Paradise, that we now refer to the garment as such. It wasn’t long before, as with many military products, the T-shirt made its way into the wardrobes of men not destined for the shores of enemy frontiers.

The golden ratio was first observed in nature and studied by geometricians in ancient Greece. From here, it spiralled into numerous loosely connected fields. In doing so, it became a template for Renaissance thought. “The Golden Ratio started to become available to artists in theoretical treatises that were not overly mathematical, that they could actually use,” as Luca Pacioli’s Divina proportione of 1509 put it. As a child trying to get your head around this magic number, you were probably guided towards pictures of seashells, sunflowers and spiral galaxies.

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T-shirts first came into play in the late 1800s, when the US Navy began issuing them as standard undershirts. It’s down to F Scott Fitzgerald, who coined the term “T-shirt” in his 1920 debut novel This Side Of Paradise, that we now refer to the garment as such. It wasn’t long before, as with many military products, the T-shirt made its way into the wardrobes of men not destined for the shores of enemy frontiers.

The golden ratio was first observed in nature and studied by geometricians in ancient Greece. From here, it spiralled into numerous loosely connected fields. In doing so, it became a template for Renaissance thought. “The Golden Ratio started to become available to artists in theoretical treatises that were not overly mathematical, that they could actually use,” as Luca Pacioli’s Divina proportione of 1509 put it. As a child trying to get your head around this magic number, you were probably guided towards pictures of seashells, sunflowers and spiral galaxies.