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JELLY BEAN American Vintage Quirky Print Unisex Tee Vol.II in Cream.

The first Cream tee you found at the back of the rack. You did not know exactly what you were looking for, but when you saw it you recognized it — the right temperature, the right weight, the print that had settled into its ground the way prints settle into Cream when they have been there long enough, which is to say: as if they had always been there, as if the ground and the print had arrived at this relationship independently of anyone’s intention and simply been this way since before you found them. That is what the first Cream tee is. The second Cream tee is what happens after you already have the first one. It is not the same experience. When you already have a Cream tee that you wear, that you know, that has already established itself as the thing it is in your wardrobe, the second Cream tee enters a context that the first one did not enter. It enters a wardrobe that already knows what Cream is, that has already decided that Cream is the correct ground for this kind of print, that does not need to be convinced of this because it has already been convinced. The second vanilla jelly bean is not the same experience as the first. You eat the first and there is vanilla, which is the experience you expected and which is still, despite being expected, a genuine experience of vanilla. You eat the second and there is vanilla plus the memory of the first vanilla, which makes the experience richer than the experience of just vanilla, which makes it, in a precise sense, more than vanilla — not a different flavor, but a deeper occurrence of the same flavor, layered with what happened the first time. The Cream of this tee is the same Cream: the warm, settled, already-right-before-you-arrived ground that belongs to JELLY BEAN’s quirky American vintage print the way vanilla belongs to the original jelly bean. The print is new. The ground is not new — the ground is the ground that has already established itself, that you already know, that the new print finds when it arrives and settles into as if the ground had been waiting for exactly this print, which in a sense it had, because Cream is the kind of ground that is always ready for the next print that arrives in the right spirit. Wear this if you already have the first one and you know what you are doing. Wear this if you are starting here and you are getting to the second conversation before the first, which is also fine, because the conversation does not have a required entry point — you can start anywhere in it and still end up somewhere worth being.

Key Details

• 🥛➡️ Vol.II — the first Cream you found it; this Cream it found you:
  • First Cream: found at the back of the rack — right temperature, right weight, print settled into ground as if always there, arrived at the relationship independently of intention
  • Second Cream: enters a context the first did not — a wardrobe that already knows what Cream is, already decided it’s the correct ground, does not need convincing because it has already been convinced
  • Same warmth. Different print. Further into the conversation.
• 🥛🍬🍬 The second vanilla jelly bean — vanilla plus the memory of the first: more than vanilla, not a different flavor:
  • First vanilla: vanilla as expected — genuine despite being expected. Second vanilla: vanilla plus the memory of the first, richer than just vanilla, more than vanilla in a precise sense — not different, but a deeper occurrence of the same flavor, layered with what happened the first time
  • The Cream of this tee: the same Cream — warm, settled, already-right-before-you-arrived. The print is new. The ground is not new.
  • Cream is the kind of ground always ready for the next print that arrives in the right spirit. This print arrives in the right spirit.
• 🥛💬 No required entry point — start here or start at the first, you end up somewhere worth being:
  • Wear this if you already have the first one and you know what you are doing
  • Wear this if you are starting at the second conversation before the first — also fine; the conversation has no required entry point, you can start anywhere and still end up somewhere worth being
  • New print. Ground waiting for exactly this. Already ready.
• 📏 Unisex — Sizes S–XL — Pure Cotton — $59.00