"Wife-beater" as article of clothing

[GSCole]

Wife beater shirt starts showing up on the web sometime in 1996, per
current search results on AltaVista.  Below are some sites.  Site date
is in brackets, with differences between t-shirt, tee-shirt, and shirt,
shown in further brackets.

George S. Cole   gscole at ark.ship.edu
Shippensburg University
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http://www.emory.edu/WHEEL/Archive/96Sep27/Sports/PowerPoll.html  [19
Apr 1997]  {wb t-shirt}

http://www.amherst.edu/~rssilver/shirt.html  [17 Dec 1996]  {wb t-shirt}

http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~dcw8/mail.html  [30 April 1997]  {wb
shirt}

http://tripath.colosys.net/fmhs/cat/wills.htm  [11 May 1997]  {wb shirt}

http://comedy.clarinet.com/rhf/jokes/99/May/springjedi.html  [20 May
1999]  {wb tee shirt}