A co-ord is a matching top and bottom sold as a pair. Ours run the same shit print across a shirt, a pair of gym-swim shorts and a bucket hat, so it covers you from scalp to knee. Put the lot on. Match the whole group or clash two prints on purpose, size each piece properly, wash it cold, and you have an outfit instead of one shirt doing all the heavy lifting.
Every co-ord guide on the internet is written by somebody quietly trying to calm you down. Keep the palette tonal. Watch the footwear. Aim for something considered. Follow three of those and you end up in a beige linen set looking like a bloke who reviews cruises for a living.
That is what happens when you take clothing advice from people solving a completely different problem. They want you invisible and comfortable with it. You bought a shirt covered in mushrooms because you wanted the pub to notice, and no amount of tonal loafers is getting you there.
So this is the version written by the people who print the stuff. What a co-ord actually is, which of ours go the full distance from hat to knee, how to size it, how to get a group into it without a fight, how to wash it, and why putting the whole lot on at once is the point rather than the risk.
What a Co-ord Set Is, In Plain English
Top and bottom, bought together
Co-ord is short for co-ordinated. It means a top and a bottom made as a pair, and every fashion website on earth describes it as a relaxed suit, which tells you how much fun those websites are having.
The difference with ours is simple enough. The print keeps going past the waistband. Buy a shit shirt and shorts set and you get flamingos, mushrooms or a full galaxy running the whole length of you.
Nobody has ever bought a mushroom-covered set to look understated. You buy it because you want the room to clock you, and then you want somebody to say something about it.
Why we sell them as sets
Because people kept building them anyway. Customers were buying the shirt, then coming back three weeks later for the shorts, then a month after that for the hat, and eventually we stopped pretending that was a coincidence.
Every styling guide on Google will tell you to keep it tonal, mind the footwear, chase a considered look. That advice is written for a different shop. We make loud shirts, loud shorts, loud hats, loud ties and loud accessories for the same bloke to wear at the same time.
A set does not tidy up the chaos. It doubles the surface area it covers, which is rather the point of the exercise.
You can watch the process happen in our order data. The first purchase is nearly always a shirt on its own. The second is the shorts. By the third order somebody has added the hat and a bum bag and gone fully in. Not once has anyone travelled in the opposite direction.
The sets that exist right now
Four prints go the full distance: shirt, shorts and bucket hat in identical artwork. That is twelve items making four complete looks, and they all live in the co-ords collection.
Loads more prints match across two pieces instead of three. Bananas For Flamingos, Leopard Kiss, Magical Psychedelic, Retro Sticker and Fluorescent Fruit Fiesta all pair a shirt with a matching hat, and most throw in a tie set as well.
Matching Set or Full Clash: Pick Your Chaos
Full match, head to knee
One print, no interruptions, no gaps for the eye to escape through. This is the version that ends up in the group photo, because a full match reads as a decision rather than an accident.
It kills the suitcase argument dead too. You are not stood over an open case at half four in the morning holding two items up against each other. The set was made together, so it packs together and it goes on together.
Scale it to a group and it stops being an outfit and becomes an event. Eight blokes walking into a bar in identical flamingos changes the temperature of the room in a way one bloke never manages.
Full clash, on purpose
Our preferred version, if we are honest. Stick a Shroom Bucket Hat on top of a Flamingo Fandango Shirt and let two prints that share nothing scrap it out on your body.
Three years of reading our own customer photos says the clash gets more comments in a queue than the match does. A match makes people nod. A clash makes people ask, and asking is what we are actually selling here.
Neither is better. The only genuinely wrong move is leaving half the set in a drawer at home because you decided you had used up some imaginary allowance.
The group compromise
Fourteen people do not need fourteen identical sets. Split the group over two prints and the photo gets some structure in it, which beats a wall of the same thing.
The other route is everybody in their own print with only the bucket hats matching. Cheapest way to make a group read as a group from fifty metres, and it means nobody has to compromise on the shirt they actually wanted.
Big groups usually land on the third option eventually, which is everyone in a full set and no two the same. It looks like a paint chart staggering down a promenade and it photographs better than anything else we see.
If you want a rough rule, and we are reluctant to hand one over, match when you are with a group and clash when you are on your own. A match works as a crowd effect. A clash works up close, where somebody can lean in and ask you what on earth is going on.
The Four Prints You Can Buy Top to Bottom
Flamingo Fandango
Pink, relentless, completely shameless. The Flamingo Fandango Shirt is the one that turns up in more customer photos than the rest of the range combined, usually from the shallow end of a pool in Spain.
Add the matching shorts and the bucket hat and you have stopped being a bloke in a nice shirt. You are the flamingo one now, for the whole trip, and there is a blazer and a tie set waiting if you need to take it somewhere with a dress code.
Shroom and Trippy Space
The Shroom Shirt looks almost restrained from across a bar and then detonates with detail the second somebody gets within a metre of it. That is why it is the one people end up leaning in to inspect. The Shroom Shorts and Shroom Bucket Hat finish it off.
Trippy Space runs the other way, deep blues and swirling colour, and it comes alive under anything ultraviolet. Grab the shorts and hat, and note there is a golf polo in the same artwork if you fancy horrifying a clubhouse.
Unicorn Poo
A customer named it and we were never going to do better, so it stuck. The Unicorn Poo Shirt is the brightest thing we print and the full set version is physically hard to ignore.
The shorts and bucket hat line up exactly, and the Unicorn Poo Blazer is there for weddings where somebody has politely asked you to behave yourself.
The Four-Piece: Shirt, Shorts, Hat, Bag
Shirt and shorts first
These two are the backbone. Get them in the same print and everything after that is optional fun rather than required work.
It is also the cheapest way to double the impact of a shirt you already own. If the shirt is in the co-ords collection, the shorts exist, and adding them costs less than a night out and lasts about five years longer.
Our shorts are a gym-swim cut, which does more than the name suggests. Mesh lining, proper drawstring, dries in minutes. They go sunbed to pool to bar without you ever going back to the room, and that single fact is why a set beats a shirt on its own for a week abroad.
Hat on top
The bucket hat is what turns two pieces into a proper outfit, and it happens to be the most useful thing in the whole set.
It is doing the actual work on your scalp and the back of your neck, which is where people burn first. NHS sun safety guidance puts a wide brim ahead of a cap, Cancer Research UK agrees, and the Met Office UV index will tell you whether today is a day to argue about it.
Bag and shades to finish
Fourth piece is whatever you strap on. A Badass Bum Bag swallows a phone, a passport and more cash than is sensible, and worn across the chest it keeps your valuables in front of you in a crowd.
Then Send It Shades or the Bad Wayfarers go on. Four pieces, all shouting, all at once, and if you want a fifth then the Wanna Pizza This Bum Bag matches absolutely nothing we make and is all the better for it.
Sizing a Set Without Getting It Wrong
The shirt
Shirts run true to size with a relaxed body and a camp collar. If you wear a large on the high street, order a large here, and it will hang the way it is meant to whether you button it up or leave it open over a tee.
Caught between two sizes, take the bigger one. A slightly roomy co-ord shirt looks deliberate. A tight one looks like you borrowed it off a smaller mate.
Worth knowing if you are ordering for a group: our shirts run relaxed through the body and a bit generous in the sleeve, so most people find their normal size lands right first time. The returns we do get are almost always people who tried to size down.
The shorts
Elasticated drawstring waist, gym-swim cut, forgiving as anything. Go off your actual waist measurement rather than the number printed inside your jeans, because jeans labels have been lying to all of us for years.
| Waist measurement | Order | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| 28 to 30 inches | S | Drawstring does the fine tuning |
| 31 to 33 inches | M | The size we ship most of |
| 34 to 36 inches | L | Size up for a longer leg |
| 37 to 39 inches | XL | Roomy through the thigh |
| 40 inches and up | 2XL and beyond | Same print, more of it |
When your top half and bottom half disagree
Very common and completely fine. Loads of people take a large shirt with medium shorts, or the reverse, because torsos and legs were never measured off the same tape.
Order each piece at the size that actually fits the bit of you it covers. Nobody at a pool bar is reading your labels, but everybody can spot shorts that are two inches out.
Buying for somebody else and guessing blind? Guess up. A slightly big shirt gets worn every day of the trip. A slightly small one gets folded back into the case on day one and quietly held against you.
Poolside and Beach Co-ords
Shorts that do two jobs
Here is the argument nobody makes until they own a set. A gym-swim short means you are not packing swimwear and shorts as separate items, and you are not disappearing off to get changed halfway through the afternoon.
Swim, climb out, shirt back on over the top, order a drink, carry on. The whole day runs on one outfit, which matters a lot when you are travelling hand luggage only and every item has to justify the space.
Drying and packing
Printed polyester dries fast, which is the quiet edge it has over cotton in proper heat. Wring it out, chuck it over a balcony rail, and it will be ready before you have finished your shower.
Roll the shirt instead of folding it and the creases fall out overnight. The whole set packs down to nothing, which is how people end up taking three of them to Benidorm for a long weekend.
Pack the hat last and pack it on top. Squashing a bucket hat under a pair of trainers for four hours is the one thing that will leave you with a brim that never quite recovers its shape.
Actually covering up
Eight hours next to a pool does more damage than anyone budgets for, and an open printed shirt across your shoulders is doing genuine work while also being funny.
Shirt open, hat on, and the two places that burn first are handled. The NHS is blunt about it and so are we, and it is worth a glance at the travel advice for wherever you are headed before you go.
Stag Do Co-ords
Why a set beats individual shirts
A stag group in separate shirts looks like a group of lads who happen to like shirts. A stag group in matching sets looks like an organised outfit with a plan, which is funnier precisely because the plan is always rubbish.
It makes the stag findable as well. Twelve in Flamingo Fandango and one in Unicorn Poo and you can spot him from the far end of a strip without anyone having to shout.
There is a serious point buried in the joke. Groups that can see each other lose fewer people, and a stag wearing a print nobody else has on gets walked back to the correct hotel. Anybody who has spent an hour at 3am hunting for a mate in a white tee knows the value of that.
The airport test
Sets pass the test that individual outfits fail. Everyone dresses in their own house at their own hour with zero group chat debate, and they still match at the gate.
Fewer people forget, too, because the set lives together in one drawer. Flying Jet2, Ryanair or easyJet, the whole lot rolls into a cabin bag with space to spare.
The other airport benefit is that nobody has to explain the plan twice. Whoever booked the trip has enough to deal with without also running a wardrobe department from a WhatsApp group at six in the morning.
The photos that survive
Three years of stag photos have taught us exactly one lesson. The pictures people keep are the ones where the group went all in, and the ones that get deleted are the ones where half the lads lost their nerve and turned up in a polo.
The Algarve, Prague, Blackpool, it makes no difference. The set is what the photo is of. Throw a rude slogan tee in for the second night and the weekend is sorted.
Hen Do Co-ords
The whole group, not half of it
Our sets were never cut for one gender and we have never pretended otherwise. Relaxed boxy shirts, drawstring shorts, and hen groups have been ordering them in bulk for a while now without us needing to say anything.
A hen group in Flamingo Fandango looks superb in bright sun, where the pink does most of the work before anybody has even posed.
Splitting the prints
The version we see most is the bride in one print and the rest of the group in another, which gives every photo a natural centre without anybody having to wear a sash.
Alternatively split the group across Unicorn Poo and Trippy Space and let the two halves clash on purpose. Looks intentional in a way novelty sashes have never once managed.
Day into night, one outfit
Same set covers a pool afternoon and a night out, which is the practical reason hen groups keep reordering. Buttoned for dinner, open at the bar, hat on for the walk home.
Whether it is Liverpool, Brighton or Ibiza, one outfit that survives fourteen hours beats three that need a trip back to the room in between.
It outlasts the alternatives too. A set gets packed again for the next holiday, where the personalised tees with everyone's nickname printed on the back go in a drawer on the Sunday and stay there permanently.
Festival Co-ords
Finding your lot in a field
Festival sites eat people. Signal drops, meeting points move, and everyone ends up balanced on a bin scanning forty thousand faces.
A matching set solves it. Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds, Boomtown, Parklife and Creamfields all get easier when your group shares a print, and it beats a flag on a pole because you do not have to carry the bloody thing.
Mud, rain and the usual British nonsense
The shorts are the same printed polyester as the shirts, so they shrug off a downpour and dry while you are still wearing them. That is not a minor detail at Download in June.
The hat works harder here than it does on a beach, keeping drizzle out of your eyes in the morning and sun off your head at three in the afternoon when the field has no shade anywhere.
Footwear is the one thing a set will not save you from, and we are not going to insult you by pretending otherwise. Wear boots you have already broken in and accept that they are never coming home clean.
Packing for four days
Two sets covers a long weekend if one of them is dark. Trippy Space hides an enormous number of sins, which is a genuine reason to own it rather than a gag.
First set on arrival day, second on the big night, then repeat whichever one is still standing. Nobody at a festival has ever noticed a repeat outfit, and if they did they would respect the commitment.
Take a bum bag for the wristband, phone and cash and you have killed the pocket anxiety that ruins a front row. Isle of Wight and Latitude are full of people who learned that the expensive way.
Co-ords at Home Against Co-ords Abroad
The British summer version
You get roughly eleven usable days a year in this country and you should spend every one of them in a full set. When it turns, the shirt goes on open over a long sleeve tee, and that is the only ground the weather gets.
Beer gardens, race days and back garden barbecues are where a UK co-ord belongs. Manchester in July generates more customer photos than most Spanish resorts, mainly because everyone is so shocked by the sun that they commit instantly.
Scotland, Cardiff and York all count. A set in a British beer garden pulls a bigger reaction than the same set in Marbella, purely because everyone around you is dressed like they are on the way to a funeral.
Costas, islands and a fortnight of it
Abroad you can wear a set every single day and not a soul will blink. Spain, Portugal, Greece and Malta are full of people who wish they had brought one.
Three sets will get you through two weeks comfortably. They wash in a hotel sink, dry on a balcony rail, and take up less room in the case than a single pair of trainers.
City breaks and the cold version
Amsterdam, Krakow and Budapest are a different proposition, so the blazer does the job the shorts would have done.
Same print, heavier cloth, and you can walk into a restaurant without the staff assuming you have wandered in from a stag do. Not that there is anything wrong with wandering in from a stag do.
A city break is also the one trip where a tie set earns its place in a small bag. It weighs nothing, it takes up no room, and it turns any shirt you brought into a proper evening outfit.
Blazers and Tie Sets: The Smart Clash
Blazer plus tie
Weddings and race meetings come with dress codes, and a dress code is an invitation rather than a cage. A Flamingo Fandango Blazer with the matching tie set satisfies every code we have ever read while remaining the loudest thing in the building.
The tie sets come with a pocket square, which is the detail that separates looking like you own a tailor with a sense of humour from looking like you lost a bet.
Races and weddings
Ascot, Aintree and Cheltenham all want a jacket and a tie, and all three are considerably better in a Unicorn Poo Blazer than in navy.
For weddings, ask the couple first and then do it anyway. We have lost count of the groomsmen who went all in and ended up in every single photo on the day.
The works Christmas do
Office parties are a loud blazer's natural habitat, and December is when the tie sets shift fastest. Buy the Magical Psychedelic Tie Set first if you must, though everybody who does is back for the blazer by the following December.
The full version is blazer, tie and pocket square all in the same print. That is a co-ord, it just happens to be one that goes indoors in winter.
Which Set for Which Occasion
Daytime
Bright prints do more in daylight because the sun lifts the colour instead of flattening it. Unicorn Poo and Flamingo Fandango were built for a pool, a boat or a beer garden.
On a pool day the shorts matter more than the shirt, and that is exactly where the gym-swim cut earns its money twice over.
Boat days are the outlier worth planning for. Everything gets soaked, everything gets windy, and a set that dries on you is worth considerably more out there than anything made of cotton.
After dark
Deeper prints hold up better under bar and club lighting, where a pale print can vanish. Trippy Space and Shroom go properly mad under anything ultraviolet.
| Occasion | The set that works hardest | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Pool day abroad | Flamingo Fandango | Shorts swim, shirt covers your shoulders |
| Festival weekend | Trippy Space | Dark print survives four days in a field |
| Stag do strip | Unicorn Poo | Visible from an absurd distance |
| Hen do pool party | Flamingo Fandango | Photographs brilliantly in strong sun |
| Wedding or races | Blazer and tie set | Meets the dress code, ignores its intentions |
| Christmas do | Shroom blazer | Detail up close, carnage from across the room |
The days in between
Travel days, airport mornings, hangover afternoons. A set is the easiest thing in the bag to put on when you have had four hours sleep, because there is no decision involved in it.
That is the underrated case for owning one. On the day your brain has clocked off, the outfit does the thinking for you.
It works on a boat, at a barbecue, on the walk to the pub and on a six in the morning transfer coach. There is no point on a trip where the bloke in the full set is having a worse time than everyone else.
What the Fabric Is Actually Like
Shirts
Lightweight printed polyester with a soft handle, camp collar, relaxed body. Deliberately not stiff, because a stiff shirt in thirty degrees is a punishment rather than a garment.
It holds colour far better than cotton, which is the only reason the prints come out this saturated. You cannot get a flamingo that pink onto cotton without it going chalky by the fourth wash.
It breathes better than most people expect from a synthetic and dries in minutes. Anyone who has sat on a coach in a soaked cotton shirt will understand why that beats whatever the label says.
Shorts
Same family of printed polyester with a mesh lining and an elasticated drawstring waist. They sit between a swim short and a gym short, which is the whole reason they work as hard as they do on a trip.
The leg lands mid thigh on most people and a bit shorter on taller frames. Side pockets, a back pocket, and a proper cord drawstring rather than the flat tape that gives up inside a week.
Hats, ties and blazers
Bucket hats are a two layer build with a stitched brim that keeps its shape instead of collapsing into your eyeline. They crush into a bag and come out fine, which is the only test a festival hat needs to pass.
The tie sets are a smooth woven finish with a matching pocket square, and the blazers are a structured single breasted cut with a full lining. Both are heavier than the summer gear, which is precisely what you want in December.
Buying Sets for a Whole Group
Prising sizes out of people
This is the difficult bit and it has nothing whatsoever to do with clothing. Getting fourteen grown adults to reply to a message with a single letter is one of the great unsolved problems of our time.
What works: one message, the sizes listed, reply with a letter. Do not ask for measurements, do not invite opinions, do not open a debate about which print. One letter each and move on.
Order two spares in whatever size is most common in the group. Somebody always joins late, somebody always orders wrong, and a spare set has never gone to waste on a stag do in the history of stag dos.
One more thing that saves an argument later. Put one person in charge of the order and let them make the final call on the print. Democracy is a lovely idea and it has never once produced a decision about group clothing inside a fortnight.
Timings
Get the order in at least three weeks before you fly. That leaves room for a size swap, room for a delay, and room for the one bloke who orders a fortnight after everybody else.
| Group size | Order by | Because |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 6 | 3 weeks before | Easy to swap a size if one is off |
| 7 to 14 | 4 weeks before | Someone is always slow to reply |
| 15 or more | 5 to 6 weeks before | Split the order, chase the stragglers |
Money, without falling out
One person pays and everyone pays them back is the quickest route and the one most likely to end a friendship. Collect the money before you order, not after the parcels land.
On a big group, split the order in half and let each half sort itself. Two people chasing seven each is a far better arrangement than one person chasing fourteen.
Co-ords After the Summer Ends
Autumn
The shirt does not clock off in September. Open over a long sleeve tee it runs straight through autumn, and a loud print does more good under grey skies than it does in blazing sun.
This is also when the polos come into their own, because a long sleeve underneath turns a summer polo into an October one with no effort at all.
Winter
Winter belongs to the blazer. Shorts go in the drawer, the blazer and tie set come out, and the whole thing moves indoors to Christmas parties, birthdays and the annual works do.
A blazer and tie in matching print is a co-ord in every sense that counts. Nobody calls it one because it has a collar, but the logic is exactly the same.
Winter sun
Chasing heat in January and everything above still applies. The Canaries, Dubai and anywhere long haul run on summer rules all year round, and a set packs smaller than the jumper you would otherwise waste the space on.
The people who get most out of a co-ord are the ones who stopped treating it as a two weeks a year purchase. Once you start wearing it whenever the occasion allows, it turns out the occasion allows it constantly.
Loud Sets for Sport and Match Days
Golf
Golf clubs spent a century policing what people wear and the sport has improved enormously as that has fallen apart. A printed polo clears most club dress codes on the technicality that it has a collar, and what happens after that is nobody's business.
The Trippy Space Golf Polo matches the shirt, shorts and bucket hat, so you can turn up in a full co-ord and still get waved onto the first tee. Four of you doing it turns a fourball into an incident.
It is properly practical kit as well. A breathable polo and a wide brim is what you want across four hours of open sun, and the England Golf crowd have been quietly drifting this way for years.
Football
Tournament summers are when the England Football Hawaiian Shirt vanishes quickest, almost always with the matching bucket hat going out in the same order.
There is a red away version with its own hat, so a group can split home and away and still arrive looking like a unit. Fan zones, beer gardens and the Wembley concourse are all improved by it.
Rugby and cricket
The Scrum On My Face Rugby Tie Set exists for Six Nations weekends, the one fixture in British sport where a ridiculous tie is practically compulsory.
Cricket is the same story with more sitting down. A day at the cricket is six hours of sun and two hours of queueing at a bar, and a printed shirt and bucket hat is better equipment for that than anything technical you could buy.
Formula One weekends belong in the same bracket, which is why the DRS To Impress F1 Tie Set exists. Silverstone in July is a full day outdoors and a set handles it better than a team polo ever has.
Where People Go Wrong With Sets
Leaving half of it behind
Easily the most common one. Somebody buys the set, packs the shirt, and leaves the shorts at home on the basis that they already own shorts.
Take both. A set only works as a set, and a printed shirt over beige chino shorts is precisely the outcome you spent the money to avoid.
If space is genuinely the issue, drop something else. The set weighs less than the hoodie you will not wear and takes up less room than the second pair of trainers you also will not wear.
One size across the lot
Second most common. Someone orders a large shirt and large shorts because it feels neater, and then the shorts are either hanging off them or cutting them in half.
Size each piece to the part of the body it covers. The co-ords collection lets you pick sizes independently for exactly this reason.
Washing it like a work shirt
Printed polyester does not want a hot wash and it definitely does not want a tumble dryer. Heat is what dulls a print, not wearing the thing.
Which has a decent plain English guide to wash temperatures if you want the detail. The short version is cold, inside out, hang it up.
Washing a Printed Set Without Wrecking It
First wash
Shirt and shorts together, cold, inside out, gentle cycle. Do it before the holiday rather than after you get home coated in factor 50 and sangria.
Leave the fabric softener out of it. It sits on top of printed polyester and takes the edge off the colour over a season.
Wash the bucket hat by hand in the sink instead of throwing it in with the rest. Two minutes with warm water and a bit of soap keeps the brim stiff, where a machine cycle softens it for good.
Drying
Hang dry every time, out of direct sun if you can manage it. A tumble dryer will not destroy a print in one go, but it will quietly flatten it across a summer.
Creases drop out of these fabrics on their own, so a hanger and an hour usually beats an iron. If you must iron it, low heat and inside out.
Storage
Keep the set together. Shirt, shorts and hat on one hanger or in one drawer, because the entire logic of owning a set falls apart the moment the pieces scatter across a wardrobe.
Bucket hats hold their shape far better stuffed with a rolled up tee than squashed flat under a suitcase lid. Looked after properly a set will do five or six holidays, which is more than you will get out of the white trainers you bought at the same time.
Hang the shirt rather than folding it into a drawer if you have the rail space. Printed polyester keeps its finish better on a hanger, and it means the set is ready to go the next time somebody books something at short notice.
The Conversation a Loud Set Starts
What actually happens
Somebody says something to you. That is the entire mechanism, and it works far more reliably than it has any right to.
A bloke in a normal shirt walks past a hundred people and speaks to none of them. The same bloke in a full matching flamingo set gets stopped four times between the pool and the bar, and three of those turn into an actual conversation with a stranger.
Where this came from
John, who started this, lost his best friend Aine to mental illness in 2022. She was full of life and nobody saw it coming, which is the part that keeps people awake at night.
He had spent years travelling in loud shirts and had already noticed what they did. Strangers talked to him. Conversations happened that otherwise would not have. The whole thing grew out of that observation and that loss, and it is all written down properly on our story page.
Why it matters
We are not going to pretend a shirt fixes anything, because it does not. It opens a door, and the people who most need a door opened are rarely the ones who open it themselves.
Every order helps fund mental health charities. If you or somebody near you is struggling, Mind and the Samaritans are both there, and the Mental Health Foundation has sensible guidance on how to start a conversation with someone you are worried about.
None of that is a reason to buy a set. Buy one because it made you laugh. The rest happens in the background whether you ever think about it or not.
Questions We Get Asked About Co-ords
Do I have to wear the whole set at once?
No, but you should. The pieces work separately and plenty of people wear the shorts to the gym with an old tee. The set is where the value sits though, and it is the version people react to.
Can you actually swim in the shorts?
Yes. Gym-swim cut, mesh lining, drawstring waist, built to go in the water and dry fast on the way back to the bar.
Is a full matching set too much?
Too much is the product. That is not a bug we are working on. Nobody has ever stood in a bar in a full set and wished they had brought less of it.
Can a mixed group all wear the same print?
Yes, and they do constantly. Relaxed cuts, sizing that runs from S up to 5XL across most of the range, so a group of fifteen can match without anyone getting left out.
How many sets for a week away?
Two if you are washing, three if you cannot be bothered. They pack down so small that the third one costs you almost nothing in space.
Do the shirt and shorts match exactly?
Yes. Same artwork, same colours, same fabric. The pattern scale shifts slightly because a short is a smaller piece of cloth, but worn together they read as one continuous print.
Can I wear a co-ord to a wedding?
Ask the couple, then do it. If the code calls for a jacket, take the blazer and tie set route rather than shirt and shorts, and you will clear everything on the invitation.
What size do I order for someone else?
Their usual size, and if you genuinely have no idea, go one up. Relaxed is the look anyway, so going bigger costs you nothing.
Put the Whole Lot On
The short version
A co-ord is a shirt and shorts in the same print, and ours add a bucket hat so it runs from your head to your knees. Wear all of it. Match the group or clash on purpose, size each piece to your actual body rather than to a label, and wash it cold.
Four prints go the full distance: Flamingo Fandango, Shroom, Trippy Space and Unicorn Poo, and you can stack a fourth and fifth piece on top from the accessories and sunglasses.
Go and get one
The next holiday, stag do, hen do or festival is already in the calendar. Pick a print, pack both halves, put the hat on and turn up as somebody who obviously meant it.
Start with whichever print made you laugh first. That instinct is right nearly every time, and it beats two weeks of agonising over which one goes with your trainers.
Every set we sell helps fund mental health charities and starts conversations we will never hear about. Have a dig through the co-ord sets at Shit Shirt Club and build yours, or go wider across the whole shitty range if clashing sounds more your thing.
