Tag makers
The tags inside vintage band shirts, maker by maker: each tag style with the years it is documented on, and where that comes from.
- Screen StarsFrom 1980Fruit of the Loom's line of blank shirts made for printing, branded Screen Stars in 1980, under Fruit of the Loom's RN 13765.
- HanesFrom 1975A T-shirt maker for decades. In 1975 Hanes introduced the Beefy-T, the first T-shirt designed for decorators.
- Giant1991 to 2008A licensed band merchandise company founded in 1990 by Irving Azoff and Warner Bros., whose tags start in 1991.
- Brockum1974 to 1997A licensed band merchandise company started in 1974, sold to Labatt Brewing in 1988 and bought out by Nice Man around 1997.
- Winterland1982 to 2008Winterland Productions, founded in 1974, made licensed band shirts. The brand was retired in 2011.
- Tultex1993 to 1996Few reliable sources so farA knitwear maker from Martinsville, Virginia, begun as Sale Knitting Company in 1937. It filed for Chapter 11 on 3 December 1999.
- AnvilFrom 1976A blank shirt maker that went on as Anvil Knitwear from 1976 and was bought by Gildan in 2012.
- GildanFrom 1984A Montreal maker founded in 1984 with the purchase of a knitting mill.
- Fruit of the LoomNo dated styles yetA maker since 1851 and the company behind Screen Stars. Its name alone does not date a shirt.