"If man must endure life on this godforsaken damaged crag of a continent, he should at the very least be outfitted with a decent koton undershirt." -Obediah Linus Dunne, in a letter to a friend

The striking photograph that served as the basis for this design was taken in 1843, the year Obediah Linus Dunne founded his undershirt company, OLD KOTON INDUSTRIES. Mr. Dunne, who hailed from the Brittish Isles, enjoyed great success as an emigré tailor and designer in the United States before buying the cotton plantation he named Five Corners, the birthplace of OLD KOTON INDUSTRIES. O. Linus, as his friends and neighbors called him, never wore undershirts (what we now call "t-shirts") himself, only his own homemade suits. However, the blistering heat of the American South gave him an idea. He believed sincerely that light-weight, high-quality white cotton undergarments made by honestly-paid skilled laborers were the way of the future sartorially speaking, especially for the inhabitants of the agrarian nation which he now called home. OLD KOTON's use of white, sweatshop-free American Apparel shirts perfectly fulfills Our Founder's orginal 162 year-old vision.

The "Our Founder" graphic is six inches in height and appears centered and high on the chest.