TSOTM Oct 2024: Oscar Wilde True Friends

Our T-Shirt of the Month for October 2024, made of 100% organic cotton, supporting grassroots labour unions in South Asia. Outside the US this design is also available on a shirt made a workers' cooperative.

It is dedicated both to Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, who was born on 16 October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland, and to all our true friends.

After graduating from Trinity College, Wilde left for Oxford and then London, where he became an advocate of libertarian socialism and an early inspiration for what would, many years later, become a movement for LGBT+ rights. Wilde’s most overt political statements can be found in his essay, “The Soul of Man under Socialism,” in which he observed that:

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

Among some of the more famous quotes from Wilde is “true friends stab you in the front” which Chris W. Jany, the designer for this month, has chosen to use as an inspiration.

Oscar Wilde died of meningitis at the age of 46 and his final years were marked by poverty.

Designed by Christian Jany.

• 100% organic combed ring-spun cotton
• Fabric weight: 5.3 oz./yd.² (180 g/m²)
• Regular 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)
• Printed individually just for you with no overproduction or waste
• Global shipping from the US

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