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The shirt does not say Cat Daddy. It says C, then a cat, then T, then Daddy. The word is assembled in front of you, and the assembly is the joke. On a dark ground, light lettering sets a capital C at the left, a capital T at the right, and between them a cat […]
GREETINGS arches over the top. HUZZ sits below. Between them, an orange tabby in a backwards red cap holds a rainbow swirl lollipop in one paw, purple lightning behind it, and stares out with the flat affect of a creature that has been asked to endorse something and has declined. The shirt is Greetings Huzz […]
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. This is not an independent review. The shirt says GOT TOO SILLY, in capitals, and beneath the words is a white bird — goose-like, round-headed, blank-eyed — wearing an orange prison uniform and holding a black mugshot board. The board is empty. That is […]
COUSIN CREW. Two words, set in red and white capitals, the first word stacked above the second, holly and snowflakes and a bit of Christmas decoration tucked around the letters. The shirt is sold as Cousin Crew Christmas Matching Family Holiday Cousins, and the phrase on the chest is the whole of the design’s argument. […]
The shirt says FORCED FAMILY FUN, in red and white lettering, and then — this is the part worth sitting with — a string of festive lights runs around the words, framing them the way a garland frames a mantel or a wreath frames a door. The bulbs are decorative. They are also, in the […]
The shirt says TWEEDLE DUM across the chest, and then, smaller, I’M WITH DEE, and then an arrow pointing right. That is the whole design. No illustration of a round little man in a propeller beanie, no Tenniel engraving, no Carroll quotation. Just a name, a prepositional confession, and a directional mark. I want to […]
TWEEDLE DEE and I’M WITH DUM, with a left-pointing arrow. That is the whole design, as observed on the listing for the Dee half of a matching costume pair. The arrow is the part worth sitting with. It does not point at the wearer. It points away from the wearer, toward whoever is standing to […]
“LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW.” The sentence wraps around four smiling root vegetables — a carrot, a radish, a beet, an onion — each drawn with its root visible in the soil. The words are set in a ring, or near enough to one, so that reading them requires a […]
The shirt says, in white capitals, I HAD POTENTIAL. Beneath the sentence is a drawing: a curved ramp descending from an upper left ledge to a lower right flat. At the top of the ramp, on the ledge, sits a dashed empty circle. At the bottom, resting on the flat, sits a solid white ball. […]
The label says COMPOSITION. Beneath it, inside a white ruled rectangle, an outlined ghost and an outlined pumpkin sit side by side, as if the two most reliable symbols of October had been entered into the same attendance ledger. The rectangle itself is speckled black and white, a dark binding strip runs down the left […]