"Heights Make Me Polite" Unisex Longsleeve T-shirt

Ink flattens a climbing shoe into three colours, and on a unisex longsleeve t-shirt that works in its favour: mustard leather, navy rubber and pale grey rock each stay crisp, and the stippled cliff reads as grain you could almost feel.

The shoe comes down at an angle from the upper right under a cuffed trouser leg, its whole weight resting on one small nub of stone. Brass eyelets carry dark laces up the mustard upper, and a line of zigzag stitching joins the leather to the navy rand. Pale scratches cross the toe, the kind a shoe collects over many routes.

From a small mustard dot at the point of contact, two thin lines fan down to a ringed circle that enlarges the scuffed toe on its nub, drawn like a diagram in a field guide. That enlargement is what turns a foothold into the joke.

Beside it, four stacked lines read Heights Make Me Polite. in tall condensed capitals that tilt slightly uphill, navy with a thin mustard inline and an offset shadow, the first word the largest and the full stop kept. It suits climbers, boulderers and anyone who goes quiet and careful a long way off the ground, and it makes an easy gift for a gym partner.