Ah the basic white tee, doesn’t everyone own one? I chose to feature this item for a number of reasons but my first is because I simply love a white tee. It doesn’t get more clean and simple than this and moreover, the white tee is a vehicle from which you can derive countless other outfits. It goes with every pair of jeans and shoes, in every color! All of this functionality and style in one garment that you can attain from your $10 t-shirt from Forever 21 – It really is amazing!

But what is less amazing are some statistics. Amazingly, it takes 2700 gallons of water to make only one white cotton t-shirt. That’s enough water for a person to sustain on for approximately 3 years. The multitude of this can truly be analyzed, considering that 1 in 10 people living in the world do not have access to clean drinking water.

This simple white tee has much more to it than you might think. Environmental and ethical concerns arise, as we wonder how this staple has survived so long, considering the increasingly destitute conditions in so many countries and a steadily increasing world population. It must be an element of modern culture, and it certainly is a lucrative industry. The white tee is a basic staple now, which unfortunately is contributing to depriving so many more people in the world of a true necessity-water!