Rave Button Up Shirts

Three ways it earns its place. Open over a tank or a rave jersey, sleeves pushed up, is the easy one. You get airflow and a second print without hiding the first. Buttoned all the way with shorts reads cleaner and holds the pattern unbroken across the chest. Half-buttoned with the tails out is the pool-deck version.

Keep the rest quiet. A loud all-over shirt does not want loud shorts next to it. Plain black or white bottoms, or one colour pulled straight out of the print, and let the shirt do the talking. Same with everything else: sunglasses, a chain, done.

When the temperature drops after dark it still works as a mid layer under a rave hoodie with the collar out. Roll the cuff once rather than twice. The camp collar sits flat on its own and does not need much help.

The cut is relaxed and slightly boxy. It hangs away from the chest instead of gripping it, which is the whole point in heat. Sizing is unisex and runs XS to 4XL.

The numbers below are flat garment measurements, not body measurements. Chest is measured across the shirt laid flat, underarm to underarm, and runs from 20in at XS to 27in at 4XL. Back length runs 27.5in at XS to 34.5in at 4XL. The simplest way to choose: take a short sleeve shirt you already like the fit of, lay it flat, measure pit to pit and shoulder seam to hem, then match those two numbers.

Full charts in inches and centimetres are on the size guide. If you plan to wear it open over a jersey or a tank, take the next size up. The extra room across the chest is what lets the front sit flat when it is unbuttoned.

An all over print shirt is made differently from a shirt with a graphic pressed onto the front. The artwork is sublimated across the whole garment, front, back and sleeves, and it keeps running through the seams instead of stopping at a printed square.

Two practical consequences. First, the print carries right through the panels instead of sitting as a pressed square on the front, so there is no visible edge where the graphic stops and blank shirt starts. Second, it opens up artwork a chest print cannot hold: full scenes, gradients that wrap around the body, repeats that line up across a crowd of matching shirts.

Every shirt is printed to order, which is why this collection can hold such a range at once. Psychedelic, tropical, cyber, dark and loud, plus quieter tonal prints that only give up the pattern when someone stands close.

Yes. Send a photo, a logo, a rough sketch, or just a description in words, and the design team will work it into an all over layout for the shirt. Design help is free, and you see a free mockup before you pay anything, so nothing is final until you have looked at it.

There is no minimum order. One shirt for yourself is fine, and so is a whole crew in matching prints with different names on the back. Group orders are welcome and group discounts exist, so it is worth counting heads before you order rather than after.

Worth sending along with your idea: the highest resolution version of any image you have, the mood you are chasing (neon, dark, tropical, tonal), and any names, numbers or wordmarks you want readable from a distance. Start one on the custom design page.

Treat it like the printed piece it is. Wash cold, turn it inside out first, use a mild detergent, and skip the bleach and the fabric softener. Run it with other soft items rather than jeans and zips, which are what scuff a print inside the drum.

Hang it to dry in the shade instead of tumbling it hot. If you iron at all, keep the iron cool, work on the inside, and do not park it on the print. Steaming it on a hanger is easier and handles pack creases just as well.

The festival-practical version: at the end of a day, shake the dust out and hang the shirt somewhere with air moving instead of stuffing it damp into a bag. That is what makes day three unpleasant. For packing, roll it rather than folding it flat, since the relaxed cut comes out of a bag with fewer hard creases than a fitted shirt does.

It is a festival button down shirt first, but the real value is how many other days it covers. Day two, when you want something over a tank and no more weight than that. Pool parties and boat parties, where a buttoned shirt reads dressed without being warm. Hot climate events, from desert stages to beach sets to the Miami and Vegas end of the calendar, where long sleeves are simply not happening.

It travels into the non-festival part of a trip too: the airport, breakfast the morning after, a rooftop where a jersey would look out of place. As an edm short sleeve shirt it sits between a tank and a full outfit, which is why it keeps getting packed.

• Crews who want one print across very different body types, since unisex XS to 4XL covers most of a group
• Anyone building a men's festival outfit around one loud piece
• Layering over sets from women's rave outfits when the sun is high