• A Chinese Vietnamese woman with long hair wearing a green t-shirt and blue jeans sits on a wooden chair with her face turned slightly to the side and looking into the distance. On the floor are tangerines and Chinese broccoli on top of a white sheet.
  • A Chinese Vietnamese woman with long hair wearing a green t-shirt and blue jeans with her face turned slightly to the side and looking into the distance. Her hands are on her waist.
  • A Chinese Vietnamese woman wearing a green t-shirt with an illustration of a big Chinese broccoli and small embroidered white flower and blue jeans stands with her back to the camera. Her hands are on her waist.
  • A Chinese Vietnamese woman with long hair wearing a green t-shirt and blue jeans and holding Chinese broccoli in one hand stands with her back to the camera. On the floor are tangerines and Chinese broccoli on top of a white sheet.
  • A Chinese man and Chinese Vietnamese woman wearing the same dark green shirt sit around a wooden table. Both are smiling, while one is holding a ha gow with her chopsticks. There are bowls of dim sum, tea cups, and a plate of Chinese broccoli on the table.
  • A Chinese man and Chinese Vietnamese woman wearing the same dark green shirt sit around a wooden table. Both are smiling, while one is holding up a ha gow close to the other’s face with her chopsticks. There are bowls of dim sum, tea cups, and a plate of Chinese broccoli on the table.
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Gai Lan 芥藍 Big T

Gai Lan 芥藍 Big T

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A vintage-inspired Big T that we hope you’ll wear to sleep, in the garden, and on lunch dates with friends—with care, on repeat, and for a long time. Garment dyed with indigo, fustic, and weld and screen printed with water-based inks, each Big T is one-of-a-kind with slight imperfections and variation in colors. Minor distress, holes, and stains are to be expected. The shirt will soften and change with you over time with wear, wash, and sunlight.

The Gai Lan 芥藍 Big T features the Chinese character for vegetable 菜 on front, a big chinese broccoli on the back, and a hand-sewn logo label (not pictured). The color is a muted mix of blueish green.

Chinese broccoli is pronounced as gai lan in Cantonese. 

Photos by Kevin Chau, featuring food from community-serving East West Garden and China Book Store market in LA Chinatown.

Materials

6.5-8.5oz weight unbleached jersey knit shirts from Everybody World’s perfectly new but lightly damaged or overstock shirts, made from 100% recycled cotton waste, and knit, cut, and sewn in Los Angeles, CA

Naturally dyed with GOTS certified plant-based materials by Botanical Colors in Seattle, WA

Cropped at longstanding and immigrant-owned Elaine Cao Alteration shop in Los Angeles Chinatown

Screen printed with water-based inks by Mixer Ink in Gardena, CA

Machine embroidered with 100% organic cotton thread spun in Holland and acid/lead-free nylon stabilizer

Hand-sewn care label made from 100% unbleached organic cotton and printed with water-based inks

Sizing and Fit

The Big T fits a little cropped (even for folks on the shorter side!) and oversized depending on your body shape and size.

Preshrunk and ready to throw on

Model measurements: 5”2 and 105lbs wearing a size M, 5”7 and 150lbs wearing a size XL

Measurements are approximate and may deviate 1-2''


Care Instructions

Naturally dyed clothing may fade faster than the clothing we’re used to wearing, but with care and repeat wears before washing, you can help the color fade a bit slower. Our shirts might have a certain smell when you receive them or lose color when you first wash them, but don’t be alarmed!

Hand wash cold with pH neutral detergent (e.g., Ecos, Eucalan, Dr. Bronner’s)

Sliding Scale

Choose what you pay based on what you can afford. We ask that those with access to more resources pay at the higher end of the scale to make it possible for others to purchase at the lower end of the scale. See our sliding scale page to learn more.

Packaging

Our minimal packaging is intended to be reused (as much as possible) and then recycled. Check out what ecofriendly packaging we use here.

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Two people wearing the same dark green shirt sit around a wooden table. Only their chests can be seen in the photo. They’re holding chopsticks. There are bowls of dim sum, tea cups, and a plate of Chinese broccoli on the table.

gai lan (芥藍) feels like sunday mornings spent getting dim sum in san gabriel valley. warm afternoons gathered around mahogany tables in chinatown. and weekday nights eating quietly at home. a plate gets spun in front of me. the clink of chopsticks to ceramic plate. arms reaching out to serve one another. thick stalks glistening under oyster sauce. slivers of bright green speckled in rice. crunch.

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