This t-shirt was from the Seditionaries collection and was worn in performance by Johnny Rotten, singer with the Sex Pistols. It features a screen print of the artwork, designed by Jamie Reid, used in the promotion of the Pistols first single, Anarchy in the U.K.. Rotten cut the sleeves off himself, leaving frayed edges.

Jamie Reid (b. 1947), developed his cut-and-paste aesthetic from his interest in radical politics. His artistic style developed while at art college in Croydon, where he was influenced by the ideas of the avant-garde political group, the Situationist International. The political slant to his art was aroused by the May 1968 Paris student riots, which inspired fraternal protests organised by Reid at the Croydon College of Art. These were directed with fellow student Malcolm McLaren (1946-2010), later to become the manager of the Sex Pistols.

From 1971, McLaren managed a boutique on King's Road in Chelsea, selling clothes designed by himself and Vivienne Westwood. It originally sold Teddy Boy styles, and was called Let It Rock. The name was changed in 1972 to Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die, and in 1974 it was renamed SEX. McLaren had been heavily influenced by the Punk scene coming out of New York at the time, and the designs sold took on fetish and bondage influences. The Sex Pistols were named after this shop, but with a name change in 1976, the shop and label became Seditionaries, just as the Pistols were becoming famous. The boutique was refurbished as Worlds End at the beginning of 1981 and remains in this incarnation.