My Pants Are Already in My Boots: Firefighter Tee

The gear is staged. Bunker trousers sit dropped and concertinaed over the boot tops so you step in and pull up in one movement, and the seconds that saves are the difference between a fast rig and a slow one. Everybody who wears turnouts does it. Almost nobody outside has ever seen it.

Read cold, it is a confession of spectacular laziness. People are certain this person leaves their clothes on the floor, which is the funniest possible distance from a drilled procedure. It is bought by the spouse who has been stepping over that staged gear in a garage for ten years.

A plain boot with the trouser leg collapsed over the top, drawn from scratch in stipple, one ink. Headed READY STATE CHECK with DONNING TIME AS DRILLED beneath.

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.