Kids t-shirt
For little ones who listen more than they talk, this kids' praying mantis t-shirt features Bruno: a friendly-faced mantis in a lime-green jacket who does the sound for concerts in Marseille. From my Animal Kinhood series, a calm bug that's easy to adopt.
Mantis religiosa
Good sound is invisible. If the audience notices me, something's gone wrong.
Meadows, Mediterranean scrubland, field edges and sunny peri-urban zones from southern Europe to northern Africa and western Asia; successfully introduced to North America since 1899.
Bruno has a habit a kid will recognize right away: he takes great care of his ears, because they're the tool he works with. He wears earplugs even when he's not at a concert — on the metro, in a bar — and doesn't care if people give him strange looks. To him it's not a quirk: it's common sense, the way you'd carefully look after the thing you use the most. Hearing well is his superpower, and he protects it.
On the t-shirt you're wearing his calm face, facing forward, in the lime jacket. And a great fact about the species: the mantis hears so well it can detect the screech of bats, so high-pitched we can't even hear it, and does a mid-flight turn to dodge them. Real superhero ears. It's a t-shirt for kids who like bugs with a trick up their sleeve; there's more of Bruno in his biography.
| Talla | A · medio pecho | B · largo | C · manga |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2T | 31 cm | 42 cm | 13 cm |
| 3T | 33 cm | 44 cm | 14 cm |
| 4T | 35 cm | 46 cm | 15 cm |
| 5T | 37 cm | 49 cm | 16 cm |
| 6T | 39 cm | 52 cm | 17 cm |
