Four root vegetables smile up from a shirt. A carrot, a radish, a beet, an onion — each with its roots drawn down into visible soil, each with a face. Around them, in a ring of text, the words: LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW. The design is a closed loop. …
The first thing I notice is the nose. Not the round eyes, not the smile — the nose. On the orange jack-o’-lantern face printed on this shirt, the nose is a heart. That’s a choice, and it changes the whole read. Most carved pumpkin faces I’ve seen on stage or in shop windows go for …
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. This is not an independent review. The first thing I noticed on the Yes I Can Drive A Stick Funny Witch Broom Halloween Women shirt was not the words. It was the hat. A cream, engraved-style pointed witch hat sits at the top of …
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The ghost has its arms folded. That is the first thing I notice, before the words, before the pumpkin tucked at its side. A bedsheet ghost with its arms crossed is not haunting anything. It is waiting. It is standing in line at the …
On the shirt, a butter stick stands upright. The wrapper is printed with blue vertical lettering: SALTED BUTTER. Not unsalted. Not a generic yellow rectangle. The word salted is the whole point. I keep looking at this graphic the way I look at a costume sketch taped to a dressing room mirror. It is not …