A lemon-print silk scarf, cream pearls, and a faintly smug look
Cool Mom is a dog-mom gift dressed as a 1960s Riviera fashion page - silk, pearls and lemons - with your dog as the cover model. It makes its point with styling, so the shirt never has to spell the words out.
Free preview first · you approve before it prints · printed in the USA
What is in the scene
Your dog sits in a slight three-quarter turn, chin raised a touch, calm and faintly smug, like the subject of a fashion-editorial portrait. An ivory silk scarf printed with lemons and green leaves, edged in a thin Mediterranean blue, is knotted at the side of the neck above a strand of cream pearls. Around them float loose espresso-brown brush strokes, flat lemon-yellow and leaf-green shapes and two small hand-drawn lemons, the kind of accents a 1960s magazine spread would use.
The photo that gets the best Cool Mom
A three-quarter angle suits this design, so the photo where your dog is turned slightly from the camera while still looking toward it is a good pick, though a straight-on face works too. Calm beats excited: the look is composed and a little aloof, and a calm photo gets there most convincingly. The scarf knots at the neck, so keep the chin and the top of the chest in the shot.
The full list is on the photo guidelines page - good light, face visible, one pet, and nothing covering the eyes.
How it prints
On a white shirt, white is bare fabric: ink goes down only where the picture is darker than the tee, and at the bottom the chest breaks into dots instead of ending in a line. White is this design's own shirt and keeps the lemons and the Mediterranean blue at their crispest. Ivory is the warmer option and leans into the vintage-magazine feel; there the palest details, like the ivory silk and the shine on the pearls, blend further into the shirt.
The preview lets you switch between every shirt colour this design is offered in, so you can compare them before you decide.
Price, shirt and shipping
- $34.99
- One shirt, artwork included. Listed at $49.99; there is no separate design fee and previewing costs nothing.
- Free US shipping
- On every order, no minimum, US addresses only. Typically 7-12 business days door to door with tracking.
- Comfort Colors 1717
- A garment-dyed heavyweight tee in 5 sizes (S-2XL). Printed in the USA; the blank itself is imported.
- Free preview
- Three free previews a day, for everyone. Nothing is printed or charged until you approve one.
Custom-printed items are not returnable for change of mind, but a damaged, misprinted or wrong order is reprinted free or refunded within 30 days - see the FAQ and the size guide.
Cool Mom questions
Is this the version with the head scarf and the matcha?＋
No - that one is Cool Mom Classic, kept as a design of its own. This version knots a lemon-print scarf at the neck and trades the café for brush strokes and lemons.
Is it a Mother's Day gift?＋
It works as one, and since nothing on it names the occasion it can be worn all year. Leave time for printing and delivery, which is typically 7-12 business days after you approve your preview.
Does it suit a dog with very pale fur?＋
Yes, with one thing to expect: on a white shirt the brightest fur is the shirt itself, so a pale dog is drawn by the soft shading in the coat. The scarf, the pearls and the lemons fill the design out around them.
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