Material US 1717

Comfort Colors 1717 — our premium tee

The fabric
A heavyweight 6.1 oz/yd² (207 g/m²) tee in 100% ring-spun US cotton, spun at 32 singles — finer yarn than our everyday tee, and more of it. No polyester, no blends. You feel the difference the moment you pick it up: this one has body. It hangs instead of clinging. Preshrunk and soft-washed, so it arrives already broken in rather than asking you to earn it.

Garment-dyed, which is the whole point
Most tees are made from fabric that was dyed first, then cut and sewn. This one is sewn first, then dropped into the dye as a finished shirt. That's slower, costs more, and it's why the colour sits in the cotton rather than on top of it — soft, slightly faded, the depth you normally only get from a shirt you've owned for a decade.

It also means no two are identical. Small variations in tone are how garment-dyeing works, not a fault.

How it's built
The body is knitted as one continuous tube — no side seams anywhere. Most heavy tees are cut from two panels and stitched down each side to force a shape. This one isn't shaped at all, and that's deliberate: the unstructured drape is exactly what makes an old t-shirt feel like an old t-shirt. Relaxed, roomy, slightly boxy. If you want it closer to the body, size down.

Twill-taped neck and shoulders, a 7/8" (2.2 cm) topstitched ribbed collar, double-needle stitching at the armholes, sleeves and hem. The heavy stuff is built heavy.

The tag stays in
Unlike our everyday tee, this one has a soft woven twill label sewn into the neck rather than a tear-away. It's flat and it's fabric, not plastic — but if you cut every tag out on principle, better you know before it arrives.

Where it comes from
US-grown cotton, sewn in the same family of OEKO-TEX certified, Fair Labor Association–partnered factories as the rest of our range, using low-impact dyes. Then it comes to us, and we print it after you order it. Never before. No warehouse, no unsold stock, no rush.

This is the heavy one — the one you keep. If you'd rather have light, easy and everyday, that's our other tee. Same art, different weight class.