This project has looked into the effects a simple everyday item can have on society. form 1850 to 1950 a shirt of able to have an effect on whether or not a child would have equal access to education. This project also showed how children’s clothing when from simple hand me downs that were made at home or locally into a huge industry that could mail the latest styles to any house in the country and had its own category in the United States Census. Children’s clothing was also used to build a national identity and “Americanize” immigrants by having them dress in clothes from American pop culture instead of clothes from their native countries. Shirts effected everyone’s lives during this period, but whether those effects were positive or negative depends on the groups and for many people it was a little of both.