When doing yard work, whether it be tidying the garage or building a new raised bed with a cubic metre or two of compost, you don't wear your best clothes. You may not even wear your everyday clothes. You may have a shirt or two and some pants that are your yard clothes. They get dirt and grass stains, sweat, tree sap, paint, or anything else and it's no big deal. I have eight old long sleeved green work shirts my dad gave me. They are thread bare in a couple of places but they work great to keep the sun off.

I had been thinking for a while that having a shirt for SustainaBundy members would be neat in order to give us a bit of a team look when out and about. A dark green polo shirt with a small SustainaBundy logo embroidered on the front. Whether it be helping setup a community garden or doing a presentation on organic gardening at a primary school. It would provide a coherent presence for the SustainaBundy team.

But I could not resolve the idea with having to buy new ones and have them professionally done - looking at Australian made cotton shirts and having the embroidering done locally - was going to be expensive. And I felt that the expense could not be justified. After realizing that these shirts are meant to get dirty I realized that old shirts would be good. Old green work shirts like the one I was wearing at the time would work great. There are probably hundreds to be had around town or in at the back of peoples wardrobes. And we could screen print them ourselves.

Andi and shine_on thought the idea had merit so Andi has provided a mock-up of what it might look like. Anything more complicated would probably add a lot of complexity to the task of doing our own screen printing. Any one have any feedback?