This alongside the fact that they and are very easy to individualise and their subsequent tradition of displaying slogans and unique designs means that they have become one of the most widely used ways of making a personal statements.

There are funny t-shirts, philosophical t-shirts, angry tee shirts, witty t-shirts, sarcastic t-shirts, bombastic t-shirts, beautiful t-shirts, painful to look at t-shirts, clever t-shirts, dumb t-shirts and plain bad taste t-shirts, and the choice is all our own...

Many of us have been fortunate enough to have grown up in a world made richer by the books we have read and some of them manage to become very much a part of our own lives.

Two of those that seem to be perennial favourites and to travel through the years and still remain best of friends with us are the two classics that never age:

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

We have seen Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn so often wandering through the backwoods of our imaginations that they would not be strangers if they walked through our door one day and greeted us with broad grins and twinkling eyes.

Have you ever wondered what these two would be wearing if they were around today? Well, you could take a pretty good guess if you spent a little time getting to know the person who first brought them to life.

Once you start discovering something about the fascinating life of their creator I am quite confident you would be able to imagine the two of them walking around today wearing jeans and t-shirts inspired by the words of the man himself, the man whose books have "Carpe diem" woven into their fabric....Mark Twain.

The tee shirt slogan that would be a natural choice for them is one with Mark Twain's "Sail away from the safe harbor" quotation, one that Twain himself would have worn as well

If there were three words most appropriate for Mark, Tom and Huck they would have to be: Explore, Dream, Discover...