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    Why are sleeveless T-shirts called "tank tops"?

    Question #81235. Asked by star_gazer. (May 30 07 8:24 PM)


    mike32768

    		http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeveless_shirt

    The name Tank top, recorded in English since 1968, is derived from its resemblance to a tank suit, a style of one-piece women's swimsuit with shoulder straps, so called since the 1920s, because it was worn in a "swimming tank," an obsolete term for what are now called "swimming pools."

    May 30 07, 8:27 PM
    star_gazer

    		Thank you.

    And all this time I thought it had something to do with the military tank.

    May 30 07, 8:32 PM

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