It isn't a proper noun, I know, but to me it makes more sense to have the capital T because... the T looks like the shape of the shirt, and that's clearly why it is named that way. Lowercase t is the wrong shape.
@tomw I was going to say “t-shirt”, as if it's full name is “capital t”-shirt, but you're just not saying the word “capital”. However, I've just noticed Wikipedia spells it “T-shirt”! 🤯 So I think I'll just use “tee shirt" from now on!
@james I hadn't thought to check Wikipedia! Despite the 50/50 poll it seems like they follow my preferred usage throughout, and explain up front that it is "named after the T shape". And there is a talk page discussion about this very issue. Good enough for me.
@tomw For me, it's T-shirt because it's a compound of T and shirt. Also acceptable is tee-shirt (where tee is the word for T). But t-shirt just doesn't work.
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