'Wally's Burgers' 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.
Wally’s Burgers
I have no personal memory or experience of this sign, but it stood out so clearly to me when I was going through Neil’s work. I think one of the reasons I love this image (aside from the very cool sign, and the fact that everyone loves burgers, amiright? 😆) is the clear blue brightness of it. Neil paints using only 6 colours, and no white, so any luminosity in the image is just the unpainted white surface of the illustration board showing through. It makes for a unique feeling of gentle brightness in his work - like the image is illuminated from within.
Neil randomly stumbled upon this burger joint on the Kingsway in Vancouver on one of the super long (20k+!) walks he would take around the city after taking the ferry over from Vancouver Island for the day. It’s such a beautiful example of one of the old neon signs that were still to be found in Vancouver from the 60’s when it first opened. Neil painted ‘Wally’s Burgers’ in 2000.
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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 XS Cropped White tee, and Neil is 6'1" and wears our size L Classic Black 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!
