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Guides to the words, the holidays and the families our designs are drawn for, written by the studio that draws them.
We draw shirts for people who belong to two places at once, and some of that needs more than four lines on a product page. These are the longer pieces: what a word actually carries, why a holiday starts when it does, which designs go with which family.
Start with the language spoken at home, or with the holiday that comes next. Every piece links to the designs it talks about, and every design goes to Amazon, which prints it and ships it.
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First Class on the Paris Metro: the Story Behind the Ticket
The Paris metro carried two classes of passenger for most of a century, and the difference cost ten centimes. It ended, for good, in 1991.
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Halloween Costume Ideas That Start With a T-Shirt
Halloween falls on October 31, and the costumes that work are usually the ones put together the night before. Six of them start with a printed shirt.
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Shirts for a Saturday at the Range
A range bag holds eye protection, ear protection, and a shirt worn often enough that the club recognizes you by it. Here are six of them, jokes included.
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Why So Many American Nurses Are Filipino
It starts with schools the United States built inside another country, runs through a Cold War exchange program, and turns on one immigration law passed in 1965.
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Wedding Gifts for a Couple From Two Countries
Two families, two languages, one gift table. The useful question is not what the couple needs, but which half of the wedding the present is speaking to.
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National Coming Out Day: Shirts That Say It Without a Speech
October 11 was a date before it was a holiday. Where National Coming Out Day comes from, and what a shirt can carry when a conversation is hard to start.
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Polish American Heritage Month, Pulaski, and the Neighbors
Polish American Heritage Month used to be held in August, and it moved for a very practical reason. Pulaski, Jamestown, and the shirts for the region.
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Italian American Heritage Month and the Sunday Table
October has been Italian American Heritage and Culture Month since 1989. What the law says, what ti amo does not mean, and where the pairings go next.
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Filipino American History Month and the Landing of 1587
The month is not built on a treaty or a wave of arrivals. It is built on one afternoon on the California coast, thirty-three years before Plymouth.
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Two Countries, One Heart: What the Dotted Line Means
Two maps, a red heart dropped into each one, and a dashed line running between them. The line is the whole design, and it was drawn to go both ways.
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Oktoberfest and German American Day: What Each One Marks
Oktoberfest began as a wedding reception with a horse race. German American Day marks thirteen families stepping off a boat in Philadelphia in 1683.
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Pasko, Hoy Hoy Hoy and Nurse Ako: a Filipino Guide
Pasko starts in September. Not the shopping, the actual season: once the month ends in ber, the songs come out, and they do not stop until Three Kings in January. That is
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How to Say I Love You in Ten Languages
Ten ways to say the same three words, and the differences between them are not small. Some languages hand the sentence over lightly. Others keep it for the moment that deserves it.
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Shirts for Families With Two Flags
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
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