"Put Something Mellow On" Men’s Oversized Heavyweight Crewneck T-Shirt

Black and cream do all the work here, and they are split unevenly: the record is almost entirely black, the words almost entirely cream. A vinyl record hangs folded over a twisted rope as if it were a towel left out to dry, slumping into two rounded lobes with the nearer one hanging lower and wider. Thin cream lines trace the grooves around each curve, and the shine is built from tiny stippled dots that sweep across the fold, so the surface looks soft and glossy at once. The centre hole has been pulled into a tall oval by the droop, which is the detail that sells the joke that this disc has gone completely limp. The rope slants down from the left, its twist marked in short dark strokes.

Underneath, on this men’s oversized heavyweight crewneck t-shirt, two lines of condensed slab-serif capitals read Put Something Mellow On, closed with a full stop, the second line taller than the first. Each letter is cream with fine horizontal engraving lines running through it, a thin dark keyline just inside the edge and a heavy black outline around the whole word shape, like type from an old concert poster. It suits anyone who spends Sunday mornings flipping through a crate of records, and it makes an easy gift for the friend who always picks the slow album.