Italian Filipino Perfect Heritage Heart Hands Tee
Rome and Manila, joined at the fingertips.
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Perfect Heritage, Italy on one hand and the Philippines on the other
Two hands meet at the fingertips and thumbs to shape a heart, and the space inside is left open so the shirt shows through. The left hand wears the Italian tricolor, green running down the outer edge, white through the middle of the hand, red across the fingers. The right hand carries the Philippine flag, the white triangle at the fingers holding the yellow sun and its three stars, deep blue running back along the top toward the wrist, red along the bottom. Under the hands, spaced wide in thin white capitals: PERFECT HERITAGE.
Who it’s for
There are well over a hundred thousand Filipinos living in Italy, most of them settled for decades, plenty of them raising children who speak Tagalog at home and Italian at school. This is for those households, and for the Italian Filipino families who moved on again to the United States and now carry three places instead of two.
The detail that matters
Nobody prints this combination. Walk into any store and you will find Italian American and Filipino American, never Italian Filipino, which is exactly why the person wearing an Italian Filipino heritage shirt gets stopped in a hallway and asked about it. The design is identical in structure to the Filipino American Perfect Heritage version, with the left hand changed, so a family can wear the pair and have them read as a set.
