Kids t-shirt
For the little ones, this kids' Amur leopard T-shirt carries Jeong front and center, with his aviator helmet and pilot goggles on top. He's a character from my Animal Kinhood series: a calm feline who learned to read the forest from his grandmother.
Panthera pardus orientalis
One hundred and thirty in twenty twenty-three. Thirty in the seventies. The camera trap doesn't lie.
Temperate deciduous and mixed forests of the Russian Far East (Primorsky Krai) and northeast China; the Land of the Leopard National Park holds the bulk of the wild population.
The most important person in his childhood was his grandmother. She taught him to walk through the forest in silence, to smell the wind before choosing a trail, and to tell which sound means danger. She also left him a handwritten recipe notebook, in Korean, which Jeong takes out every October to make kimchi the way she used to. She's gone now, but he keeps doing what she taught him, and that's how he keeps her close. He doesn't say it; he does it.
The T-shirt carries his front-facing portrait: crisp rosettes, the aviator helmet with the goggles on top, and a calm gaze that isn't scary. I created it serene and front-on: he's a serious but friendly feline, the kind you like right away. The Amur leopard is the only leopard that lives in the snow, growing an extremely long coat in winter: a great creature for anyone just starting to collect animals.
| 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 |
