Men's t-shirt
This men's hare t-shirt is simple: put it on and you're wearing Olwen on your chest, a straight-talking hare who says things to your face, once. She's in a mustard high-neck jumper and plum herringbone waistcoat, and she's from my Animal Kinhood series.
Photo: Stuart Bartlett / UnsplashLepus europaeus
A well-laid hedge holds for thirty winters. Hurry doesn't hold for one.
Open fields, grasslands and farmland of continental Europe and Great Britain, almost always bordered by hedges, field boundaries and small copses it uses as daytime cover. It also adapts to moorland, salt marshes, airfields and mountain areas up to 2,800 meters in altitude.
What the t-shirt puts on your chest is directness. In her story, Olwen doesn't dress up a no or fill silences: she answers after a pause, as if the question had to cross the whole field before it reached her, and when she does answer she doesn't waste a word either way. She got that economy from her mother, who ran the farm's sheep flock saying just enough. That's why the council people avoid her and the valley old-timers respect her.
I created her clean and against a plain background: she reads at a glance and holds up to everyday wear. She works because she has real character — a hare who goes about her own business, good at her trade, who doesn't like being pushed. As a gift she fits easily, for someone direct who appreciates things done properly. If you're curious to know who this hare is, it's all in her biography, and there are more t-shirts from the same family in the collection.
