Official Blue Coal Shirt

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Original artwork, copyright protected

Printing

Printed to order and shipped from the USA

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2–3 business days after your order is placed.

Delivery

5–10 business days within the US, 7–15 business days internationally.

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Calculated at checkout from your address and the number of items.

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Official Blue Coal Shirt, hoodie, tank top, sweater and long sleeve t-shirt

“That was a good one to start with,” Dad agreed. In his bookshelves he had A Perfect Spy, Smiley’s People, and The Russia House. I took on Tinker, Tailor because it was clearly his favorite. I was in the Official Blue Coal Shirt besides I will buy this ninth grade. “You’ll have to concentrate,” he warned me, and I did. I stepped into Le Carré’s Byzantine world where the British Secret Intelligence Service was called “the Circus” and everyone was well-dressed and even-tempered and forbidding. There was the hero George Smiley (nothing like the paper-thin heroes of Ludlum and Clancy), who was seeking to unmask a Soviet mole, planted by his nemesis, a shadowy Soviet spymaster named Karla. Everyone had sibilant, ruling class names: Alleline, Hayden, Westerby, Prideaux. I finished it, not at all sure I’d understood what I’d just read, but palpably aware that Dad approved.

1. Length is measured from the highest point on the collar down to the bottom hem. 2. Width is measured across the body of the shirt under the armpits, one way. 3. Sleeves are measured from center back to hem.