It Does Not All Come Out in the Wash: Firefighter Tee

Gear holds the smell and the hood holds it worst. Extractors help and they do not finish the job, so it travels to the car, the locker and the laundry basket at home. Said flatly, with no complaint attached, which is how it is actually said.

The idiom being negated here promises that everything will be fine in the end. Turned around, it reads as a hard little piece of life philosophy about consequences, and people are sure they have picked up something wise and slightly bitter. It sells on that misread alone to people who will never know the other meaning.

Set like a proverb, in a letterspaced serif, headed GEAR RETURNED TO SERVICE with CLEANED AND INSPECTED beneath. The proverb setting is what makes the outsider commit.

What it is

• Unisex softstyle tee, 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• 100% ring-spun cotton in the solid colors. Sport Grey is a 90% cotton, 10% polyester blend, and Dark Heather is 65% polyester, 35% cotton
• Double stitched neckline and sleeves, side seamed, tear away label
• Sizes S through 3XL
• Fourteen colors. Seven light ones printed in near black ink, seven dark ones printed in cream

Where it comes from

Custom printed in the USA. Every shirt is printed here, one at a time, on a soft cotton blank woven overseas.

Nothing is printed until you order it, so nothing sits in a warehouse and nothing gets thrown away.

Getting it to you

Free US shipping on orders $45 and up. Under that it is a flat $8.00. We make it after you order it, which takes 2 to 5 business days, and it then takes 3 to 4 business days to reach you from a US facility. Most orders arrive in 5 to 9 business days. You get a tracking number by email as soon as the label is created.

Care

Machine wash cold, inside out, gentle cycle. Tumble dry low or hang dry. Do not iron the print.

The Natural colorway

Natural has small dark speckles through the fabric. That is the undyed cotton showing, and it is expected rather than a fault.