"Autumn Leaf Lane Swimmer" Men’s Oversized Heavyweight Crewneck T-Shirt

A freestyle swimmer seen from directly overhead cuts a long diagonal down the front of this men’s oversized heavyweight crewneck t-shirt, one arm driving forward to a point where the fingers break the surface in a small burst of white spray. The other arm is caught mid-recovery, elbow high and hand hanging loose, with a fan of foam trailing off it. The skin is a flat tan-orange, and the back and shoulder muscles are worked up in darker ochre hatching, the way an old sports poster would do it. A navy cap with pale blue streaks carries the thin line of a goggle strap, and fine rings of ripple circle the neck where the head turns into the water. The pool itself is only a ragged patch of navy and mid-blue hugging the body, edged in speckled white.

Everything around that patch is autumn. Maple and oval leaves in rust red, burnt orange and mustard float thickly on every side, each drawn with thin dark veins and given its own short blue ripple underneath, so they read as lying on water. Two lane ropes of ribbed navy and red floats run parallel to the stroke, one high on the left and one low on the right, and they hold the scene to a single lane. It suits club swimmers, coaches and anyone who keeps training outdoors after the weather turns, and it makes an easy gift at the end of a season.