Every hygienist has heard "I floss every day" a thousand times, and every hygienist has said nothing. She just writes it in the chart, because the tissue told her the truth before he opened his mouth. This dental hygienist sweatshirt is that silence, worn: an engraved crest for the DENTAL HYGIENE SOCIETY, ring, molar, probe, drawn with total sincerity, and one flat line on the ribbon beneath. YES, WE CAN TELL.
The category is a wall of puns in plain type. This is the opposite: real engraving, formal serif lettering, nothing in the artwork winking. The craft is played completely straight so the sentence can land dry, funny, and still dignified enough to wear to a conference.
Thick, warm and structured, with cuffs and a waistband that hold their shape, and an emblem that sits in the fleece rather than on top of it, offered in a range of light shades chosen so the retro clinic style reads rich.
This is the one an office orders together for Dental Hygienists Week, the one that lands under the tree in December, and the one a family finally gets right for a new RDH in June.
Proud first. Wry second.
