How it is made: Comfort Colors 1717 tee

A Comfort Colors 1717 starts as a sewn shirt — ring-spun cotton cut, stitched, and finished into a complete blank before any color touches it. Then the whole garment is dyed at once: body, sleeves, collar, seams, all in the same bath. That's what garment-dye means, and it's why the shade can drift slightly from one production run to the next. The dye settles into the cotton unevenly, softens in the wash, and leaves that faded, lived-in tone instead of a flat, uniform finish.

Embroidery comes last, after the dye work is done. Once the shirt has been dyed and washed, the chest-left mark is stitched onto the finished surface. Stitching after dyeing keeps the thread's own color intact — it never enters the bath, so it reads crisp against the softened cotton underneath.

One mark, chest left. Nothing on the back, nothing on the sleeve. The process carries the shirt; the embroidery just signs it. ```