"Heights Make Me Polite" Heavy Blend Unisex Crewneck Sweatshirt

Ink on heavy fleece softens fine linework a little, and that suits a drawing built from stipple and scratch: the pale grey cliff reads as grit, and the scuffs on the navy rubber toe look chalked in. On this crewneck sweatshirt a single climbing shoe comes down diagonally from the upper right, its whole weight resting on one small nub of rock. The upper is mustard yellow leather with brass eyelets and navy laces flecked with the same yellow, joined to the rubber by a row of zigzag stitching. Above it, a cuffed trouser leg in dusty blue shows its own hem seam, and a mustard pull loop curls off the heel. Two thin mustard lines fan from the point of contact down to a ringed circle, where the toe and the nub are drawn again at magnifying-glass scale, so you can see just how little is holding everything up.

Beside the shoe, four stacked lines of tall condensed capitals read Heights Make Me Polite, full stop included, tilted slightly uphill with the first word set largest. Each navy letter carries a thin mustard inline and an offset shadow. It suits climbers, boulderers and anyone who goes quiet and careful on a ladder, and it makes an easy gift for a gym partner.