That's A Awful Lot of Cough Syrup Tiger Graphic T-Shirt - Navy

TAALOCS “That’s a Awful Lot of Cough Syrup” American High Street Tee in Navy Charcoal.

This is the last color. Not last as in the end of something, but last as in the color you arrive at when you have moved through all the other positions and found that the position you most need to be in is the one with the least to explain. Light Gray was the color before the observation. Red was the origin, the thing in its first form before it became a quantity. The deep tones were the interior acknowledgment of what had been measured. Yellow was the announcement, in the light that made announcement possible, at the volume that announcement required. Light Blue was the continuation — the morning after, the sky doing its job, both things still true at the same time, somehow enough. Navy Charcoal is where you end up when you have been through all of those. Navy is not a simple color. Navy is the color of authority that did not ask to be authoritative — the color of the uniform worn by the people who made the decision, the color of the deep water that does not explain itself, the color of the sky at the specific hour when it is no longer evening and not yet night and the light has done everything it is going to do today and what remains is the depth that was always there under the light. Charcoal is not a simple color either. Charcoal is what fire leaves behind on the thing it touched: not destruction, not the thing before the fire, but the third state — the thing that has been through fire and emerged as something different, denser, darker, marked by the process in a way that cannot be undone but also cannot be called damage, because what charcoal is is what the thing became, and what it became is permanent in a way the original was not. Navy Charcoal together is the color of depth after experience: the authority of Navy plus the permanence of Charcoal, the water that doesn’t explain itself plus the thing that has been through fire and knows it. The person wearing Navy Charcoal does not need the Red of the origin because they remember where they came from. They do not need the Yellow of the announcement because they have already said what they had to say. They do not need the Light Blue of the morning after because the morning was a while ago now and the sky has moved through its full range since then. They are in the color that comes after all of those — the color of the settled thing, the known thing, the thing that has been assessed and acknowledged and announced and continued and is now simply itself, in the two deepest colors the collection has produced, wearing the brand name that was always the truest thing in the room even when the room was Light Gray and nobody had looked at it yet. TAALOCS has always been this color underneath. Every other colorway was the same brand at a different moment in its relationship with what it knew. Navy Charcoal is the brand at the moment when what it knows and what it is have become the same thing. Wear it if you are there too.

Key Details

• 🟦⚫ Navy Charcoal — the last color, the one you arrive at after all the other positions:
  • Light Gray: didn’t know yet. Red: origin. Deep: admission. Yellow I: announcement. Yellow II: the light. Light Blue: the morning after. Navy Charcoal: where you end up when you have been through all of those and have the least left to explain
  • Navy: authority that did not ask to be authoritative — deep water that doesn’t explain itself, the sky at the hour when light has done everything it will do today and what remains is the depth that was always there under it
  • Charcoal: what fire leaves on the thing it touched — not destruction, the third state: been through fire, emerged different, denser, darker, marked permanently; not damage — what it became, and what it became is permanent in a way the original was not.
• 🟦⚫ Depth after experience — Navy’s authority plus Charcoal’s permanence:
  • Navy Charcoal together: depth after experience — the water that doesn’t explain itself plus the thing that has been through fire and knows it
  • The person in Navy Charcoal: doesn’t need Red (remembers origin), doesn’t need Yellow (already said it), doesn’t need Light Blue (the morning was a while ago, the sky has moved through its full range since)
  • The color of the settled thing. The known thing. Assessed, acknowledged, announced, continued — and now simply itself, in the two deepest colors the collection produced.
• 🟦⚫ TAALOCS was always this color underneath — wear it if you are there too:
  • Every other colorway was the same brand at a different moment in its relationship with what it knew. Navy Charcoal: the brand at the moment when what it knows and what it is have become the same thing
  • The brand name was always the truest thing in the room, even when the room was Light Gray and nobody had looked at it yet
  • Wear it if you are there too.
• 📏 Unisex — Sizes S–XL — Pure Cotton — $59.00