India, June 21 -- So early in September Amory, provided with six suits summer underwear, six suits winter underwear, one sweater or T shirt, one jersey, one overcoat, winter, etc., set out for New England, the land of schools.

Perhaps you have never seen the packing list of Amory Blaine, a 15-year old who was heading to St. Regis, a boarding school in Connecticut (USA). Ignore Amory's summer and winter underwear, notice there's a T shirt. Perhaps, you'd scoff a 'so what?'. But this was 1920 and it was the first time the word T-shirt was set down on page by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his book This Side of Paradise. Fitzgerald did not invent the word, he kinda gave the bachelor's undershirt a casual push. The name T-shirt made sense - when lai...