This funny California shirt puts the state's most quoted vacation rule into a text thread, which is exactly where that conversation actually happens now. What happens in Cali stays in Cali hits harder as an unanswered message than as a slogan, because everybody has sent or received that exact text after a weekend they are not explaining. It is a text message meme tee for people whose group chat is the real archive of every trip. If you want a funny California shirt with a modern format instead of a plain badge, this is the one.
This tee works everywhere a graphic shirt belongs. Wear it to a beach day, a pool party, a road trip up the coast, a music festival, a bar crawl, a cookout, a night market, a college campus, an airport or a normal weekend errand run. It fits a bachelorette weekend, a birthday trip, a group trip where everybody wants matching shirts, a house party, or a flight home where three people read it before you land. Friend groups buy these in sets because the joke belongs to the whole chat. Underneath the humor it is a soft, comfortable everyday graphic tee.
As a gift this covers tourists, transplants and lifers alike. It works as a Christmas gift, a birthday present, a Father's Day gift, a graduation gift, a vacation souvenir, a housewarming present, a moving-away gift, a bachelorette party gift or a secret Santa pick. Give it to a best friend, a sibling, a cousin, a roommate, a coworker, a visiting relative, or anyone who moved away and still claims this state. Pair it with a matching sticker for a small California gift set. Cut unisex with youth sizes available.
Every design in this shop is an original Street Rebirth concept, drawn from the idea outward rather than pulled off a template, which is why our funny shirts look like real design work instead of clip art with a caption. This is printed direct-to-garment on soft, breathable cotton so the ink lives in the fibers instead of sitting on top as a stiff plastic slab that cracks by the fourth wash. The artwork uses sharp linework, bold flat color and heavy contrast so the text stays crisp and legible from a few feet away, which is the whole job on a design people have to read. Over a decade of designing graphic tees for collectors, event vendors and gift buyers goes into every drop. Create. Inspire. Empower.
Care: White shirts need no special washing, just wash cold with like colors and tumble dry low. Black shirts print over a white ink underbase and are more delicate, so turn inside out, wash cold on a gentle cycle, skip bleach and fabric softener, and hang dry or tumble dry low. Never iron directly on the printed area.
Details: Unisex direct-to-garment printed tee in white or black, with youth sizes available. Soft, breathable cotton with a classic everyday fit and taped neck and shoulders. Printed with water-based, eco-friendly DTG ink for a soft hand feel. Original Street Rebirth artwork, designed and printed in Los Angeles.

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Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low.
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