On the front, a huge sun disc built from fine rings fills the surface, mustard gold at the top, rust red below. Wavy rays run across angled wedges and horizontal lines, with stamped clouds in cream sitting between them.
Product description
The 70s Sunset T-shirt carries a single large sun across the whole front. It sits slightly left of center and reaches almost to the side seam. Its disc is built from dozens of fine rings, packed close together and shifted a little off center. That recalls the growth rings in an old board.
A horizontal cut divides the disc straight across. Above lies a warm mustard gold, speckled and mottled in places. Below, the surface tips into a deep rust red in which the rings stand out more clearly. A strong dark line frames the circle and holds it together.
Wavy rays grow out of the disc in every direction. They meander like calm flames and taper toward the edge. Each ray is made of several strokes lying parallel to one another. Sometimes mustard gold leads, sometimes wine red, sometimes a light cream, and again and again black is left showing between them.
To the right of it, a constructed sky opens up. Broad wedges push into the picture at an angle, sharply cut and clearly bounded. Between them lie thin bands of horizontal lines like the staves on a sheet of music. Brick red meets cream, brown meets dark red, and every band has its own grain.
Several stamped clouds float in this sky. They are cream white and finely dotted at the edge, as if someone had set them with a stamp. Some are cut off flat by one of the horizontal lines. That takes the hardness out of the strict structure without disturbing it.
A fine grain lies over everything. No surface is smooth, no edge entirely clean. The color looks unevenly applied, thin here, saturated there. The edges are frayed as well, and a light, worn hem runs along the top and the bottom. This is what a poster looks like after hanging in a window for a long time.
On the back it turns wide and quiet. Against a deep dark ground, a second, smaller sun stands in the upper half. It too is drawn from rings, golden at the top and in shadow below. A crown of rays wraps around it.
This crown alternates between two shapes. Short, broad points in a copper tone sit close to the rim of the disc. Between them, long needles as thin as a hair reach far out into the dark. Five dotted clouds in cream are spread to the left and the right of it.
The lower half of the back stays empty. That is not a gap but the reason the sun up there stands so calmly. On the front everything happens at once, on the back the eye gets air. Whoever walks behind you sees a single sign in a dark sky.
The sleeves carry the theme onward. On both of them half a sun in rust red rises from the lower edge, its rays fanning upward. Small half arches lie to the left and the right like distant hills. This way the picture does not break off at the seam but keeps running around the arm.
The colors stay close together. Mustard gold, rust red, wine red, cream and a deep charcoal, this sunset needs no more than that. Cool tones do not appear at all. That is why the design feels warm, even where it is almost black.
From a few steps away the front reads as one strong sign, a golden circle with flames. Come closer and the same surface breaks apart into hundreds of strokes, dots and rings. Exactly these two readings make the design interesting out on the street and while sitting down.
It is worn most often by people whose wardrobe already consists of earth tones. With wide jeans, with corduroy, with an open shirt jacket it fits in effortlessly. At a festival it stands out, in everyday life it still stays calm. And anyone who gives a 70s Sunset T-shirt as a present is a safe bet for anyone who likes seventies graphics and boho motifs.
