Second Choice, Permanently on Call: New Dad Gift Tee

For a long stretch the child wants one parent and it is not you. You are still up at two, still doing the bath, still the one in the parking lot with the bag. Not the preferred option, and not off duty either. Most fathers know the exact feeling and almost none of them say it out loud, because said out loud it sounds like a complaint about a baby. It is a joke about a rota.

A stranger reads work, immediately and completely. An understudy, a backup engineer carrying a pager, somebody passed over and still answering the phone at midnight. The second read, and it is a good one, is a man being very funny about his standing in a relationship.

Set as a duty roster plate with NO RELIEF SCHEDULED underneath. The second line drops in weight and sits under the first, and that drop is the shrug.

Bought by the mother, almost every time.

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.