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Hispanic Heritage Month: Shirts for Families With Two Flags

black t-shirt with the Mexican American Perfect Heritage Heart Tee design, worn by a Mexican American man in his forties, standing in a San Antonio home kitchen

Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15 to October 15 every year, and it starts on the fifteenth for a reason: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua all declared independence from Spain on that date in 1821, and Mexico and Chile mark theirs on the sixteenth and the eighteenth. It is the only heritage month in the United States that begins in the middle of a month, and the date is the whole point.

What this collection is, and what it is not

Every design here is drawn around the same idea: two countries, held at the same size, with nothing ranked above the other. There is no eagle over a smaller flag, no country reduced to a corner. The two halves are equal because that is how it actually feels to belong to both.

They are printed on black by Amazon and shipped by Amazon. We draw them, and that is where our part ends.

Two hands, one heart

The first family of designs puts two hands together, each painted in the colors of one flag, meeting so that the shirt itself makes the heart between them. The black of the fabric is the heart. Nothing is printed inside it.

black t-shirt with the Cuban American Perfect Heritage Heart Tee design, worn by a Cuban American man in his fifties, standing in a Little Havana kitchen in Miami
Cuban American Perfect Heritage Heart Tee

Two maps, one dotted line

The second family draws the two countries as map silhouettes, a red heart resting on each, and a dotted red line running between them. The line has no arrowhead, and that is deliberate: it runs in both directions, which is the difference between leaving a place and belonging to two.

black t-shirt with the USA and Mexico, Two Hearts and a Dotted Line design, worn by a Mexican American woman in her thirties, standing on a screened porch in San Antonio
USA and Mexico, Two Hearts and a Dotted Line

Who these are drawn for

Two people can wear the same shirt for opposite reasons. One grew up in a country and now lives in another. The other was born here to parents who were not, and has been answering the same question ever since.

A design like this has to work for both, which is why none of them shout. They are meant to read from across a room without turning the wearer into a flag.

If your country is not here yet

New pairings are drawn every month, and the shop is the place to check: the full range lives in Heritage & Roots. Brazil, Haiti and Jamaica have their own designs there too, outside the Hispanic Heritage scope but built on exactly the same drawing.