The T-Shirt

One garment, every design

Every TIPSY. design is printed on the same tee. It made sense to explain it once, properly, rather than repeat three bullet points on every product page.

280 GSM, and what that means

GSM is grams per square metre — how much a square metre of the fabric weighs. It is the single number that tells you most about a t-shirt before you touch it.

150Promotional tee. Thin enough to see the outline of what is underneath.
180Standard high-street tee. Fine, and forgettable.
280Ours. Dense, opaque, holds a straight hem instead of curling.

Weight alone is not quality — a heavy fabric badly finished is just a heavy bad fabric. What matters is what comes with it: the yarn, the dyeing and the finishing.

The cloth

  • Composition100% combed cotton. Combing removes the short fibres before spinning, which keeps the surface smoother and less prone to fuzz as the washes add up.
  • DyeingReactive-dyed. The dye bonds with the fibre rather than sitting on top of it, so the colour holds.
  • FinishingPre-shrunk. The tee you unfold is the tee you keep — it will not shorten on you after the first cold wash.
  • CollarRibbed, double-stitched, so the neckline stays flat.

The cut

Boxy and deliberately loose. Dropped shoulders, room through the chest, a body that stops a little higher than a standard tee so it sits rather than hangs.

Where the seam falls

The sleeve seam sits below your shoulder bone, not on it. That is what gives the relaxed line — it is the design, not a sizing error, and it is the single thing people query most.

Which size

Take your usual size for the intended look. Between two sizes, go up: the shorter body length means a larger size does not turn into a nightshirt. Sizes run from S to XXL.

Full measurements →
The combed cotton up close, under the olive line of the Pasta print
The cotton, up close

The print

A small Tipsy. script, printed on the left chest. The full plate across the back, about 30 cm wide — large enough to read from across a terrace.

Every plate is composed the way a good bar sets its menu: the drink or the dish, its name and room to breathe. The cocktail recipes are measured out properly in the bar book.

Printed once you order it. Nothing is made in advance, which is why there is no clearance rail and no end-of-season pile — and why it takes a few days longer to reach you. Timings on the shipping page.

Keeping it that way

Heat is what ages a print, not water. Get that one thing right and the rest is easy.

  • Cold water, inside out, gentle cycle, mild detergent.
  • Hang dry, out of direct sunlight.
  • Iron inside out only, on a low setting.
  • No bleach, no soaking, no wringing.
  • Never iron directly onto the print.

Tumble drying will shrink almost any cotton, pre-shrunk or not. That is the dryer, not the tee.

See the cocktail club →