• A Chinese man with short hair wearing a yellow brownish green t-shirt and black shorts with his face turned slightly to the side smiling and looking into the distance.
  • The right side of someone wearing a yellow brownish green t-shirt with a cream illustration of tong ho. His hand is raised close to his face.
  • A Chinese man wearing a yellow brownish green t-shirt and black shorts stands with his back to the camera.
  • A Chinese Vietnamese woman wearing a yellow green t-shirt and black shorts stands with her back to the camera. She’s holding a bunch of tong ho in one hand.
  • A Chinese Vietnamese woman wearing a yellow green t-shirt and black shorts stands with her back to the camera. She’s holding a bunch of tong ho in one hand.
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Tong Ho 茼蒿 Big T

Tong Ho 茼蒿 Big T

$58.00 USD
$58.00 USD
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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 Tong Ho 茼蒿 Big T features the Chinese character for vegetable 菜 on front, chrysanthemum greens on side, and a hand-sewn logo label (not pictured). The color is a muted mix of yellowish and brownish green (some shirts more yellow or more brown depending on what you receive).

Chrysanthemum greens are pronounced as tong ho in Cantonese. 

Photos by Kevin Chau, featuring food from community-serving 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

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 L, 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 yellow green shirt sit around a wooden table. Only their chests can be seen in the photo. One hand is swirling chrysanthemum greens with chopsticks in the portable hot pot machine in front of them.

tong ho (茼蒿) flourishes in my memories. soft edges jagged. the sweet presence of bitterness both faint and fleeting. i dream of home.

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