Here’s my choice. When I was a teenager, I had a few T-shirts made out of terrycloth. They sold them in stores, sold them for years but I never saw anyone but me wear one. I liked them. They were soft and absorbent. Usually yellow though. One day, they were no more.
When I was a teenager I worked in my father’s Drapery shop. I have no recollection of terry-cloth Teeshirts, but we did have terry-cloth polo-shirts. It’s a while since I’ve been in the milieu, but they are short-sleeved shirts with soft collars and two or three buttons. The neck-opening goes no lower than the breastbone. Maybe they call them something different today. I still have three or four in my cupboard-drawers.
By gum, they were comfortable and convenient! Just a little warmer than plain cloth. And as you say, yellow seemed to be the popular colour. One day they disappeared. A mystery!
of course…ceased to exist, I’m afraid…joined the dodo 
Oh, yes… I see that Orvis, at least, claims to have “reinvented” the terry-cloth polo-shirt.
So it must have been missing for a while, there. 
Mute has the right idea. He’s just not quick enough off the mark in this instance.
probably became endangered back in the 80s, almost extinct in the 90s…
I think there’s a Fashion DNA storage unit somewhere in New York state.
Upstate…I bet Izz know where it is.
That’s a fancy shirt. Mine was a basic solid colored T-shirt. Here is a link to another site and the red and black horizontal strip is the closest to what I had.
I had a velour shirt, like a polo but maybe looser, with a zipper for the closure from mid-chest to neck. I think it had a rolled collar of some sort. It was cool and I took my fourth grade class pic with it. Unfortunately, during playground skirmishes, my friend grabbed it and tore it. I was heartbroken.
I would like to see surfer tees come back. They had just a few very wide horizontal stripes of either blue, green or red, against white.
everybody should wear hats again due to skin cancer worries, and not just gimme caps. They didn’t when I was a kid, it goes back further, but it sure would help out here. They are coming back to an extent. Most of the illegal and legal Mexicans that are from rural areas are wearing cowboy hats, LA casual fashionistas often wear artificially crumpled straw cowboys hats as well. And the enviro-green urban oldsters and Boomers wear Tilleys and other brimmed wilderness hats along with their liberal walking stick sets.
Fashion Items that Need a Comeback
None. Form should follow function, not fashion. Style and custom should adapt to function and that function should not be just style and custom.
Buzzkill.
Contrast and compare:
I find more beauty in traditional clothing and what their function was within the environment than I do some designer’s fetish clothing. Look at WWII clothing in the US. Practical, make do clothing that was safe in a work environment. After that, abundance and impractical crap to prove one’s prosperity through waste. Look at the history of British clothing being spread through different climates. Flowing cool garments being replaced by suit and tie. Modern fashion is always changing because it is not suppose to last, it is all designed to fail, either by built in wear out features, or trendy fashions.
Then what would we, the nonfunctional, wear?
Interesting question.
This also led me to wonder about what IS “functionality”. For example…
…is its design useless? This is the Swine Flu Jacket, which says “Don’t stand - don’t stand - don’t stand so close to me.” Here, of course, our model is demonstrating the more civic-minded aspects of wearing the jacket as a warning to others’ benefit when you’re chock full of bugs. But one could wear it proactively if one is in the bloom of health yet worried about other people being nasty dirty vectors, too. Which is not very sociable, is it, but still that use should appeal to some rather hysterical types.
Either way we can see in the pic that its intended effect isn’t working this time. But it’s not like they weren’t warned.
Continuing the theme, sartorial ward-offery doesn’t have to be dull and Soviet:
Add the following, and the now-fashionable yet still prophylactic ensemble’s complete:
I’ve been the USA trend setter for out-door fashion chic for longer than I can remember. I have no knowledge of these terry cloth shirts but I find the idea quite revolting. Reminds me of something I’d hang on my dish towel rack, if I believed in dish towels.
Hmm…you could dry your dishes on yourself if you wore one of those. No misplacing the towel or dropping it on the floor.
That would be more than a little inappropriate, I wipe my nose on my sleeves, and pull the front of the shirt up to wipe my brow, no telling what those dirty dishes might have on them that could transfer.
What they don’t know won’t hurt 'em. But if it matters, then put on a fresh one and just wipe your nose on your bare forearms: the hair should help hold the snot in one place, after all.
be the dish towel
Egg-ZACKLY.
Then my forearms get all sticky and itch because the hair is all stuck together.