DOTM Dec 2025: Christmas Truce T-shirt

Our Design Of The Month for December 2025, made of 100% organic cotton, and supporting grassroots labour unions in South Asia. Outside the US, this design is available here a shirt made by a workers' cooperative.
This month's design is inspired by an unofficial Christmas truce held by 100,000 troops on the Western Front during World War I. Soldiers refused to fight one another and instead German troops began singing "Silent Night" in German, French and English, along with other Christmas carols. They decorated the trenches with Christmas trees, lit candles and hung multilingual banners wishing opposing armies "Merry Christmas". Across much of the front artillery fell silent, British troops joined in the carol singing and both sides began to shout Christmas greetings at one another. On Christmas Day, soldiers began to climb out of the trenches to fraternise with the other side, bring back bodies from no man's land and exchange gifts like tobacco, chocolate and alcohol. In several areas there are first-hand accounts of often-improvised football matches being played. The truce covered about 100,000 men, almost entirely on the Western front however there was also a small truce along part of the Eastern front between Austrian and Russian troops.

The slogan “No Man’s Land United” is capturing the moment of hope and unity inherent to the soldiers’ decision to lay down the arms and instead come, sing and play football together in the space between the trenches commonly known as “No Man’s Land”. In times of ever-increasing militarisation, propaganda and war drumming, this is the perfect way to show which team you’re on. Without a doubt, No Man’s Land United are the team of the hour and a worldwide working-class force fighting for peace and against our real enemies!

Design by Conny Ochs.

• 100% organic combed ring-spun cotton
• Fabric weight: 5.3 oz./yd.² (180 g/m²)
• Regular unisex fit
• Set-in sleeves
• 1 × 1 rib at collar
• Double-needle topstitch on the sleeves and bottom hems
• Self-fabric neck tape on the inside of the back
• The fabric of this product holds certifications for its organic cotton content under GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) and OCS (Organic Content Standard). Stanley and Stella Fair Wair Foundation-made
• Supports grassroots labour unions in South Asia through ExChains and social enterprise dna merch
• Printed in the US individually just for you, with no overproduction or waste
• Global shipping from the US

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