They Always Call Me First: Default Parent Mom Tee

Both numbers are on the form. Both of them. The nursery calls her, the doctor's office calls her, the school calls her at work, and the second number has never once been dialed. She is the default contact by an agreement nobody remembers making.

A stranger reads importance. Somebody indispensable at work, the person a crisis goes to, a woman being very dry about being everyone's first phone call. They read status, and they are confident. It is status, technically.

Set as an emergency contact label with SECOND NUMBER ON FILE along the bottom, heavy and large and genuinely confident. The wrong read is a boast, so the typesetting has to sell the boast before the truth arrives.

Bought by the second number on the form.

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.