You Take the Last Cup, You Make the Next Pot: Firefighter Tee

This is the oldest enforced rule in any fire station or communications center, and breaking it is the fastest way for a new person to become unpopular before lunch. The pot has been on since some point yesterday. The rule holds anyway.

Everybody else reads break room passive aggression, a sign taped above an office kettle. That is a real and recognizable genre and it is not where this comes from, which is the small pleasure of explaining it once.

A mug drawn from scratch in stipple, one ink, above the rule. Headed POSTED IN THE KITCHEN, with IN EFFECT SINCE BEFORE YOU GOT HERE beneath it, which is how the rule actually gets explained.

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.