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When and where I grew up, this was known as either a Dago-Tee or a Cicero-Tee.

Do any of you have other names for this kind of t-shirt?
(I've recently heard of Wife Beater where I'm from (Chicago 'burbs), but that term was not used when I younger)

I ask because my neighbor wanted to know what I did yesterday and I told her I was in Paducah and while there, picked up a package of Dago-Tees. She asked what that was. She said she calls them Wife Beaters.

So, my curiosity was aroused.
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Undershirts or wife beaters

Linda

Undershirt (California dialect)
Sandi

We always called them muscle shirts, now I hear people around here calling them wife beaters also. I HATE that term!

monik7 wrote:Undershirt (California dialect)
Sandi

Not n the 'hood down here. Wife beaters they are. But I grew up knowing them as muscle shirts.

Laura

Azusateach wrote:

monik7 wrote:Undershirt (California dialect)
Sandi

Not n the 'hood down here. Wife beaters they are. But I grew up knowing them as muscle shirts.

Laura

Have to admit I don't spend much time "''n the 'hood."
Sandi

undershirt or muscle shirt. Seems like all the guys wore them under a t-shirt or reg shirt when I was growing up and my dad always wore them under his police uniform. Yeah, I hate the term "wife beater" too.

Undershirt. Easy to see the low mentality of those that call it a wife beater.

mans undershirt and have also heard them called wife beaters ( for whatever reason?)

avalen wrote:mans undershirt and have also heard them called wife beaters ( for whatever reason?)

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Cuz of the stereotype man in this t-shirt, with a beer in his hand, smoke hanging out his mouth, yelling at his wife or punching her around.
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We called then tank tops as kids in Upstate NY.

They have always been tank tops....never heard the term wife beater until I started working at the prison.

MelissaD wrote:We called then tank tops as kids in Upstate NY.

Yep, that too. I just couldn't think of it.

when I first saw the photo I thought tank top then thought no cause that is a guy (why that makes a difference I don't know) so then I thought it's something else so when I read muscle shirt or ugh (hate as well the term) wife beater shirt.. so guess I agree with all of them except yours Mitch never heard the terms
sheila

Don't recall them being called "dago tees" but yeah, muscle shirt. I thought the dago tees were the ones that were made of fish net material?