It isn’t often that a shirt design leaves us speechless. This is one of those times.

And maybe that’s for the best, you know? Pretty words and whimsical narratives would only detract from what is truly important with this piece. Maybe instead of putting our own spin on the artist’s intent, we should merely take a step back and admire the piece for what it is.

In fact, let’s do just that. Go ahead. Give it a nice long look. As you breath in deeply, take the image with you, the line work, the visual pun, all of it. Give it a moment to dance merrily along the wrinkles of your brain, then exhale.

Yep, that is definitely an emperor penguin dressed as an actual emperor. Astounding, isn’t it? Really, what more can you say?

Wear this shirt: to a toga party at the zoo.

Don’t wear this shirt: to the party this weekend. Come on, dude, please? Look, I know you’re upset that I invited your ex, and I KNOW you know they hate penguins and… Look, it would be really nice for those of us who don’t really want to take sides on this whole break-up thing if you two could be in a room together without being at each other’s throats. You wear this shirt and it’s just gonna cause a scene. So please, just be a grown up and deal, okay?

This shirt tells the world: “I’m into punny shirts involving arctic fowl and I deserve love just like everyone else.”

We call this color: It’s So Cold I’m Turning Baby Blue

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