"We Wait at the Buoy" Heavyweight Unisex Crewneck T-shirt

Nobody in We Wait at the Buoy shows a face. All four swimmers are drawn from behind, and the one stretch of open water is the gap between a raised hand and the rope it has not yet reached. Three of them already hold on to a round red buoy, scuffed white where the paint has worn, while the fourth comes up from below in a burst of white splash. On this heavyweight unisex crewneck T-shirt the whole scene reads as a group pausing mid-swim for the last one in.

The caps come in pairs, two blue and two red, each with a goggle strap drawn across the back of the head. One swimmer wears a red cross-back suit. The pale rope wraps the buoy’s middle and loops up through a metal ring at its top, where one swimmer’s fist closes on it.

The water is built from short curling black strokes packed into a loose S, with cream foam breaking at the upper left and along the lower edge. Skin is cream, the muscle picked out in fine black hatching. A cream ribbon with red curled undersides runs downhill from left to right and carries the words in heavy black serif letters, solid and slightly worn. It suits open-water swimmers, and it makes a good gift for the friend who always waits for the rest of the group.