Задание

You are a member of the jury for the literary contest. The participants have to find the main idea of the text. The author wanted to emphasise...

It's hard to believe that the T-shirt was once just a plain white undergarment. Today you can find almost anything on a T-shirt, from famous paintings and pictures of well-known people, to jokes and political slogans. In fact, T-shirts can be great conversation starters. If you meet someone new, and they are wearing an interesting T-shirt, you can always begin a conversation by discussing what is printed on it.

T-shirts first appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century. In the early 1900s, they were worn by sailors in the American navy under the uniforms. Over the next few decades more people began to wear them, but it was Hollywood that made the T-shirt such a popular thing to wear. In 1951, film audiences were shocked and impressed by the sight of Marlon Brando's muscles under his tight T-shirt in "A Streetcar Named Desire". Then, when James Dean wore a T-shirt in the 1955 film "Rebel Without a Cause", T-shirts suddenly became very cool. Young people across America started wearing T-shirts as a symbol of their own rebellious feelings.

As the young people of James Dean's time got older, they continued to wear T-shirts. They were inexpensive, fashionable, and could have anything you wanted to be printed on them. There's nothing rebellious about wearing a T-shirt now. People of all ages and from all walks of life wear them. In fact, the T-shirt is probably the most common piece of clothing in the world. And these days it is OK to wear a T-shirt almost anywhere and anytime.

("Pop culture" by Gillian Flaherty)

that a T-shirt is a universal item of clothing.

that only muscular people look good in T-shirts.

that only young people can wear T-shirts.

that T-shirts have lost popularity.