Card Room Poker Dept Tee

Description

Every casino has a card room, and it is the odd department out. The slots and the table games play against you; the card room does not. The house takes a rake and keeps the list, and the money moves between the people in the seats.

The lockup borrows the shape of an athletics department shirt — the name in an arch, the crest, the department underneath. A card room is run like one: a floor, a list, rules that do not bend for whoever is winning.

Full chest, in cream, the letters broken up before they went to print. It starts where a shirt usually ends up after a hundred washes.

Printed on a garment-dyed blank. The dye goes in after the shirt is sewn, so the colour sits a little uneven along the seams and softens with washing instead of going patchy at the shoulders.

Four colours. Black is a true black. Espresso is lighter than the name suggests — a warm mid brown, not a dark roast. Red is the red of the diamonds on a deck, deep rather than bright. Washed Denim is a pale blue with grey in it, a work shirt after a summer.

The spec, in full

• 100% ring-spun cotton
• 6.1 oz/yd² (206.8 g/m²) — heavyweight, opaque, hangs instead of clinging
• Garment-dyed, relaxed fit
• 7/8″ double-needle topstitched collar
• Twill-taped neck and shoulders
• Double-needle armhole, sleeve and bottom hems
• Sizes S to 4XL · blank sourced from Honduras

The same blank as the rest of our poker t-shirts, and the only one that names the room. If it is for someone else, the poker gifts guide sorts players into three kinds before you spend anything.

Printed after you order it. Nothing about this shirt exists until you buy it.