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In 2006, Building #19 put a cartoon in their President's Day advertising flier showing A-shirts (athletic style undershirts) labeled as being "Wife-Beater" shirts. Building #19 was criticized, and promptly apologized. [ 17 ]
A-shirt is the proper name. When I worked at Montgomery Wards from 1984 to 1986 that was what was on the label. Some guys who bought them just called them T-shirts even thought they don't have sleeves. I didn't hear them called wife beaters until COPS (TV series) which would often show wife beaters wearing wife beaters.
A sleeveless T-shirt, also called a muscle shirt, is the same design as a T-shirt, but without sleeves. [4] Some sleeveless T-shirts, which possess smaller, narrower arm holes, are traditionally worn by both women and men. They are often worn during athletic activities or as casual wear during warmer weather.
Wife-beater, wifebeater, or wife beater is a slang term for a person who commits domestic violence against his or her wife, or long term female partner. It can also refer to: a type of sleeveless shirt; a nickname for certain alcoholic drinks: Rum, made from sugarcane, sometimes called "the golden wifebeater"
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As Spradlin wrestled wearing what is popularly known as a "wifebeater" style of shirt, he began using the ring name "Wife Beater". [3] [unreliable source?] He continued to use the Wife Beater character until a women's group, offended by the gimmick, organized a boycott of a show on which Spradlin was wrestling in Platteville, Wisconsin. [3]
Young fashion influencers on TikTok are re-branding white tank tops and undershirts as "wife pleasers" in an effort to challenge the previous name's association with domestic violence.
Seven years later, the teams met again in the first round, and the series went to seven games, with a game-winning block by Paul Pierce, giving the Nets the 104–103 victory. [35] The series was noted for controversy when Toronto Raptors general manager Masai Ujiri made derogatory remarks towards Brooklyn at a fan rally outside Maple Leaf ...