Gear Up For The Year Of The Horse!
Our Chinese Zodiac project continues — pairing new artwork by our longtime friend, Ben Hillman, with classical Chinese literature.
Listen - we all wear t-shirts, and these are the cat's pajamas. They're eminently comfortable, made from premium ringspun cotton; - soft, light - just a really great shirt.
Unisex sizing across kids and adults. Fit is true to size, a little longer in the torso than some. Screen-printed by Creation Lab, just down the road from us.
This year, an old Chinese idiom, dating back all the way to ~660 BCE, when the Qi army got bogged down and lost after a late fall blizzard. Enter our hero, Guan Zhong, who advises his boss, the Duke of Qi, to let the horses guide the party home. Guan Zhong had a long political career, instituting reforms, developing a reputation as an ideal Confucian minister, and eventually earning the honorific of "Godfather", but is best remembered as the guy who got his people home by trusting an old horse.
