Kapital Kountry Smiley Oversized Cotton Graphic Tee | Light Gray

Kapital Kountry Arrives at the Smiley Face From a Direction That No Other Brand Has Taken — Not From the Street, Not From the Rave, Not From the Irony of the Institution, but From the Workshop, From the Hands That Have Worked the Cotton Until the Cotton Has Become Something That the Cotton Did Not Know It Could Be. The Smiley on This Tee Is the Smile of the Craftsperson. — Kapital Kountry Smiley Oversized Printed Cotton Tee in Light Gray.

Kapital was founded in Okayama, Japan — the city that is to denim what Florence is to leather, the place where the craft of working with cotton has been developed over generations into something that the rest of the world has spent decades trying to understand and replicate. Kapital Kountry is the line within Kapital that takes this craft and puts it in conversation with the American folk tradition — the workwear, the quilts, the bandanas, the things that American hands made when American hands were making things that were meant to last. The smiley face on the Kapital Kountry tee is the smiley face that emerges from this conversation — not the graphic that was designed to be a graphic, but the image that appears when the craft tradition of Japan meets the folk tradition of America and finds that both traditions have always been smiling at each other across the Pacific without knowing it. The oversized cotton silhouette is the silhouette that the Kapital Kountry smiley requires — the room for the print to breathe, the space for the cotton to be what cotton is when it has been treated with the attention that Kapital gives it, the fit that says the garment was made to be worn rather than to be looked at. Light Gray is the colorway that makes the Kapital Kountry smiley most itself — the color of the undyed cotton, the color that is closest to the material before it has been told what color to be, the ground that lets the smiley print carry the full weight of the craft tradition that produced it without the color competing for attention.

Why You’ll Love It

• 🙂🇯🇵 Kapital Kountry “Smiley” printed graphic — the smile of the craftsperson: not the rave smiley, not the meme smiley, not the ironic institution smiley — the image that appears when Japan’s craft tradition meets America’s folk tradition and finds they’ve been smiling at each other across the Pacific without knowing it
• 🦰 Light Gray — the color of undyed cotton — closest to the material before it’s been told what color to be — lets the smiley print carry the full weight of the craft tradition that produced it without the color competing for attention
• 🇯🇵 Kapital Okayama craft — the city that is to denim what Florence is to leather — generations of working cotton until it becomes something the cotton didn’t know it could be — the craft that the rest of the world has spent decades trying to understand and replicate
• 🇺🇸 Kountry folk tradition — the line that puts Japanese craft in conversation with American workwear, quilts, bandanas — the things American hands made when they were making things meant to last
• 👕 Oversized cotton silhouette — room for the print to breathe — space for the cotton to be what cotton is when treated with Kapital’s attention — made to be worn, not just looked at
• 📏 Sizes S – XL — find your perfect fit

Product Details

• Brand: Kapital Kountry
• Collection: Kapital Kountry — Smiley Printed Cotton Series
• Style: Smiley Oversized Printed Cotton T-Shirt
• Color: Light Gray
• Sizes: S, M, L, XL
• Fit: Oversized
• Price: $59.00 USD

Note: Light Gray is the only colorway — the color of undyed cotton, by design. Oversized fit — size down if you prefer a more fitted look. Check product photos for the full smiley print detail.