Some seasons the calendar hands you. This one you have to keep yourself. Nobody issues a membership card for the frozen November mornings — the four a.m. alarm, the walk in through the dark, the long cold sit while the woods turn grey and the season finally begins — so here is the plate you earned instead, on the sweatshirt built for the weather that comes with it.
WHITETAIL SPORTING CLUB, arched in engraved bone lettering across the top of a solid brass oval of laurel and oak. A buck's head set at the center like a crest struck for an old fish-and-game society. And along the bottom, deadpan and entirely serious, the only founding date that matters: ESTABLISHED EVERY NOVEMBER. It is drawn like a 19th-century sporting print, in aged bone, antique brass and a touch of blaze rust — the handsome, unironic thing a season this good has always deserved and almost never been given.
Printed on the Gildan 18000 unisex crewneck: a heavyweight, soft-inside sweatshirt made for cold stands and colder tailgates. Direct-to-garment printed in three warm inks so the plate sits in the fabric rather than on top of it. Offered in nine deep shades — black, navy, dark chocolate, forest, maroon and more — the deep-woods colors this season already dresses by.
This is the December present. For the hunter who'll wear it from the late season straight through the holidays, and for the person buying it for him, who knows he hunts and knows he'd never buy something this good for himself. No camo, no cartoon buck, no rifle — just the season, done right.
Made to order and printed in about 3–7 business days before it ships. Wash cold, tumble dry low, and skip ironing directly on the print.
