On the front, a curled-up fox with lowered eyelids leans over an open book beneath a lantern on a chain, surrounded by maple leaves in orange, red and yellow. Optional extras: a fox carrying a book under its paw on the back and a sleeping curled-up fox on each sleeve.
Product description
Reading Fox T-Shirt: the name tells the whole story. On the front, a fox has rolled itself up into a ball with an open book under its nose, and above it hangs a lantern on a chain whose warm glow fills the top half of the image with yellow and gold. The whole scene sits inside a round medallion edged with maple leaves in orange, red and yellow. A few leaves reach past the circle, which keeps the border alive instead of looking like a stamp. The style recalls watercolor: loose color washes, dark outlines on the ears, paws and lantern, and a fine grain that looks like wet paint on paper.
You see the fox from above. Its head rests in the center of the circle, ears upright with black tips and pale fur inside. The eyelids are lowered and the muzzle points straight at the pages. The body sweeps from the right across the left side and down, and the bushy tail with its white tip ends at the lower right, just below the book. Both front paws are dark: the left one rests on the edge of the left page, the right one lies on top of the right page. The book itself is old and thick, with a brown cover, cream pages and faint ruled lines on the left page. On the right page lies a single maple leaf in orange-red, as if someone had tucked it between the pages and forgotten it there.
The lantern above is a round metal housing in dark bronze with violet highlights. Behind a cage of bars sits the glass globe, where the light glows white and yellow. From there the glow falls as a golden wedge over fur and book, while the lower part of the circle stays in deep brown and violet. That contrast is what makes this reading fox T-shirt work: warm light above, dusk below, and in between a fox that cares about nothing but its book.
A back print is available as an option. There the same fox trots toward you through the leaves, head turned slightly to the left, amber eyes open, with a content smile. The tail is raised high and curls in at the upper left, the tip white again. The left front paw is lifted off the ground and presses a closed book with a plum-colored cover and gold ornaments in the corners against its chest, while the right front paw stands far forward in the leaves. Around the paws lies a carpet of fall leaves in yellow, orange and red, and a few more are still drifting down. The sleeves get two small extras of their own: on each sleeve a curled-up fox sleeping on a pile of leaves with its eyes closed and the tip of its tail under its muzzle.
Who wears a reading fox T-shirt? Everyone who believes fall is the best reading season of the year. People who spend Sunday with a mug of tea and a thick novel, who are always two chapters ahead at book club, or who switch the lamp back on at night because the next chapter cannot wait. It makes a fitting gift for bookworms, book lovers, fox fans and anyone who prefers woodland animals in a watercolor look over a photo print. No lettering, no slogan: the picture speaks for itself.
You pick the shirt color on the product page; the motif stays the same. The front print is large enough to show leaf veins, fur texture and the lines on the pages, and the colors of the motif, orange, red, yellow and the warm lantern light, stand out on light and dark shirts alike. A reading fox T-shirt for that stretch of the year when the days get shorter and the stacks of books get taller.
