It is easy to find inside out in a dictionary: 裏返し{うらがえし}, but I have difficulty translating backwards in the expression
to put a T-shirt on backwards
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I believe you can use 前後ろ for "backwards" or "front-to-back". For example,
Tシャツを前後ろに着る
Edit. People in chat also point out that there is also 後ろ前 "back-to-front", so
前後ろ ↔ 前が後ろ "front to back"
後ろ前 ↔ 後ろが前 "back to front"
answered Feb 2, 2017 at 22:24
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1I became slightly curious about which is used most, Google Trends shows no big difference though: google.com/trends/explore?geo=JP&q=前後ろ,後ろ前 Commented Feb 3, 2017 at 8:46
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1@KessVargavind The data is so similar, it's hard to believe that it really tracks the word 前後ろ and not sentence (or search queries) just using 前 and 後ろ in this order (or in any order). For comparison, the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese has 前後ろ 9 results and 後ろ前 19 results. With these low numbers, it's hard to call it a trend, though.– Earthliŋ ♦Commented Feb 3, 2017 at 8:54
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I was thinking the same, but I am not able to get Google Trends to compare exactly what I write. I did try to enclose the search words with quotation marks, but it seems to have no effect, in contrast to normal Google searches. Commented Feb 3, 2017 at 9:03
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1The expressions「後ろと前逆」「前と後ろ逆」「後ろ前逆」 with 「逆」 to emphasize the backward-ness are very commonly used. Enter in google search image and you will get the images you want with a lot of backwards shirts. Enter 前が後ろ and it doesn't work. (I think you should add this to your answer). Commented Feb 3, 2017 at 16:09