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Soft crew neck short sleeve tee with "St Louis Flag" on front in a cross stitch-style pattern.
4.3oz., 100% combed ring spun cotton t-shirt.
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Size Chart:
XSmall: Chest (17"), Length (27").
Small: Chest (19"), Length (28").
Medium: Chest (20"), Length (29").
Large: Chest (21½"), Length (30").
XLarge: Chest (23"), Length (31").
XXLarge: Chest (24½"), Length (32").
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Design Story:
The current flag of St. Louis was created for the city's 1964 bicentennial and was designed by Theodore Sizer, a Yale University art history professor. However, its creation was prompted by a decades-long push for a better design. The city's first official flag, adopted in 1946, was widely criticized for being "wretchedly bad in heraldic design". This led St. Louis architect Charles Nagel to approach Sizer, a noted heraldry expert, to create a new one. Sizer traveled to St. Louis and developed the now-iconic design. The flag's powerful symbolism is deeply connected to St. Louis. The red field features two wavy lines, colored blue and white, that converge. This represents the city's defining geographic feature: the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. At their meeting point sits a golden disk bearing a blue fleur-de-lis. The disk symbolizes both the city and the Louisiana Purchase, while the fleur-de-lis honors the city's French heritage and its namesake, King Louis IX. The flag's colors—red, white, blue, and gold—also pay tribute to the successive nations that have ruled the area: Spain, Bourbon France, Republican France, and the United States.
Soft crew neck short sleeve tee with "St Louis Flag" on front in a cross stitch-style pattern.
4.3oz., 100% combed ring spun cotton t-shirt.
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Size Chart:
XSmall: Chest (17"), Length (27").
Small: Chest (19"), Length (28").
Medium: Chest (20"), Length (29").
Large: Chest (21½"), Length (30").
XLarge: Chest (23"), Length (31").
XXLarge: Chest (24½"), Length (32").
______________________________________
Design Story:
The current flag of St. Louis was created for the city's 1964 bicentennial and was designed by Theodore Sizer, a Yale University art history professor. However, its creation was prompted by a decades-long push for a better design. The city's first official flag, adopted in 1946, was widely criticized for being "wretchedly bad in heraldic design". This led St. Louis architect Charles Nagel to approach Sizer, a noted heraldry expert, to create a new one. Sizer traveled to St. Louis and developed the now-iconic design. The flag's powerful symbolism is deeply connected to St. Louis. The red field features two wavy lines, colored blue and white, that converge. This represents the city's defining geographic feature: the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. At their meeting point sits a golden disk bearing a blue fleur-de-lis. The disk symbolizes both the city and the Louisiana Purchase, while the fleur-de-lis honors the city's French heritage and its namesake, King Louis IX. The flag's colors—red, white, blue, and gold—also pay tribute to the successive nations that have ruled the area: Spain, Bourbon France, Republican France, and the United States.