Can You Use T-Shirts as Body Armor?

I set out on this quest to figure out if I could actually stop bullets with T-shirts. I wanted to see if, In a moment of dire need, someone could use them as a form of homemade or DIY body armor. In classic Demolition Ranch fashion I started with a small caliber and moved my way up, adding more shirts as the bullets went through.

This video is another example of a shooting experiment that surprised me. I thought the outcome would be very different. In classic Woodshed fashion though, the shirts and mannequin may have gone out with a spectacular bang.