T-shirts and shorts are Americans' summer wardrobe staples
Core finding
T-shirts and shorts anchor the American summer wardrobe: eight-in-ten Americans (80%) wear a T-shirt at least once a week in summer and nearly three-quarters (74%) reach for shorts, according to a December 2025 Verasight survey of 1,000 U.S. adults.
No other item comes close, with fewer than one-in-five wearing leggings (18%), swim trunks (18%), blouses (17%), or skirts (15%) that often, and just 1% wear none of these.
Selected responses
T-shirts and shorts are Americans' summer wardrobe staples.
Which of the following articles of clothing do you wear at least once a week during summer?
n = 1,000 · Dec 3–8, 2025 · MoE ±3.2%
Methodology
Full methodology →| Mode | Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting |
|---|---|
| Population | US adults age 18+ |
| Field dates | Dec 3–8, 2025 |
| Base (unweighted) | 1,000 |
| Margin of error | ±3.2% |
| Module | tech_behavior |
| Sponsor | Verasight |
| Weight variable | weight |
| Weighting targets | age, race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, region, metropolitan status |
Sources
- reports.verasight.io/r/verasight-human-v-synthetic
Which of the following articles of clothing do you wear at least once a week during summer?
Cite this question
Verasight Human/LLM Comparison Survey #2025-172, fielded December 3-8, 2025, N=1,000 US adults age 18+, +/- 3.2%.