'Beware of Dog' Tee
We'll be re-stocking any missing sizes in August - thanks for your patience!
Birds x Neil MacCormick
These tees are a collaboration between Birds of North America and artist Neil MacCormick. Neil has painted full time since 1984 and co-owns Birds of North America with his partner, designer Hayley Gibson. The two have shared a studio since meeting in 2006.
Beware of Dog
I love this painting so much. It’s not simply the pure, sunbaked feeling of summeriness that it captures, but also that this image celebrates what was a very commonly seen type of vehicle in the era in which I grew up in Victoria. My family didn’t have a camper, so they were never really demystified to me, and have remained quietly delightful objects. The idea that you could have a complete home with a bed and a kitchen and a bathroom and a little window like a house, all in a moving vehicle that you could drive somewhere else, still strikes me as a marvellous notion!
Neil painted ‘Beware of Dog’ in 1993 from a photo he took in the Jubilee area of Victoria. BC. He noticed that people seemed to do more camping and roaming in Victoria, as opposed to going to cottages as people seemed to lean more towards in Toronto. This simple camper, sitting in a driveway, evokes a quiet, summery neighourhood feeling so strongly to me.
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These tees are made in a Toronto factory out of locally milled, medium weight, 100% organic cotton jersey. These tees can be machine washed and tumble dried. The classic tees will shrink 1" total with a wash and dry, and the cropped tees will shrink just 1/2" total. We haven't found there to be any width shrinkage with washing and drying.
In these images, Hayley is 5'7" and wears our size S Cropped Black tee, and Neil is 6'1" and wears our size XL Classic White tee. These tees fit on the larger side of the Birds size chart, but for your everyday classic T-shirt, that fits a bit more generously, they fit 'normally', or as you would expect them to.
If you're going by your regular size in the Birds size chart, we recommend that you take a full size down. If you normally take a S in Birds, the XS will work for you in this. If you normally take a 3X in Birds, the 2X will work for you.
A tip for fit - if you have a favourite classic tee at home, and you'd like the same fit, just lay it flat and measure across the chest to find the closest equivalent in the charts below!
Cropped Tee
Classic Tee
Everything at Birds of North America is vegan and has been made ethically in Canada since we began in 2007. We have a strong focus on sustainability, and strive to create high-quality garments that last a long time. You can browse vintage Birds styles that we've gathered back as part of our buyback program in our ReNesting section!
