Gujarat Gir Boxy Oversized Tee

The last wild Asiatic lions on earth live in one place. Gujarat. This is their tee.

There is a forest in the western corner of India where something extraordinary survived.

The Gir National Park in Gujarat is the last place on earth where Asiatic lions still roam wild. Not African lions. Not the lions of the savannah. The Asiatic lion, smaller, more regal, with a distinctive fold of belly skin and a sparser mane that frames a face of extraordinary quiet authority. Once they roamed across the entire subcontinent from the deserts of the Middle East to the plains of Bengal. Hunted, displaced and pushed to the edge of extinction, they retreated to one final sanctuary. Gujarat held them. Gujarat kept them alive.

Today fewer than seven hundred Asiatic lions exist in the entire world. Every single one of them lives in Gir. This is not just a conservation story. This is a Gujarat story. A story of a land that refused to let something precious disappear.

The Gujarat Tee from Yuva Streetwear's Icons of India collection is built around that story.

The design places a majestic male Asiatic lion at the absolute heart of the composition, his face large and commanding, his eyes sharp and direct, his mane built from layers of dense etched texture that gives him a raw, hand-carved quality. He does not sit inside the state. He rises from it. His body emerges from the Gir forest canopy that fills the interior of the Gujarat state outline below him, his upper form and mane breaking beyond the borders of the state shape entirely, too large and too powerful to be contained by any line drawn on a map.

The Gujarat state outline itself is traced in rough chalk white, immediately recognisable in the shape of the land: the Kutch district at the upper left, the Saurashtra peninsula at the centre, the Gulf of Khambhat on the right. Inside the outline, the dense teak and dry deciduous forest of Gir is illustrated in rich golden ochre, every tree suggested in etched woodblock texture, the forest alive and layered beneath the lion.

Flanking the composition on either side, perched on the edges of the state outline, are two Indian rollers rendered in striking teal and electric blue. The Indian roller is one of Gujarat's most vivid birds, known across the subcontinent as a symbol of good fortune, its flight considered auspicious during the festival of Dussehra. Their teal plumage cuts sharply against the warm gold and black of the rest of the design.

Arched boldly at the top of the print: GUJARAT in large vintage saffron gold lettering with a rough pressed texture, the kind of letterform that belongs on a heritage poster or a hand-painted shop front in Ahmedabad. Directly below in clean white Gujarati script, ગુજરાત, the name of the state in the language of the state. At the very base of the composition in small etched serif lettering: GIR · THE LAST PRIDE · GUJARAT.

The entire design is printed on a premium heavyweight oversized drop-shoulder tee in deep washed black. The print is a full back graphic, large and commanding, the kind of piece that demands a second look and starts a conversation.

This is not a tourist tee. This is not a souvenir. This is a piece of cultural heritage worn on your back. A celebration of a land that is ancient, extraordinary and entirely its own.

Wear it for Gujarat. Wear it for the lions that survived.

Gender:Unisex

Model:Oversized

Fabric:95% cotton, 5% spandex

Fabric Weight:6.2 oz/yd² (210 g/m²)

Fabric Thickness:Moderate

Care Instructions:Machine wash at 30°C (gentle cycle); Do not bleach; Tumble dry low; Iron at low temperature, avoid ironing on print; Do not dry clean

Features:Basics, Casual, Daily Casual, Holiday, Party, Office, Cotton Blend, Short Sleeve, Drop Shoulder, Round Neck / O-Neck, Regular, Oversized, Summer

Print Size:40*52cm

Notes:Minor batch differences can occur during blank garment production due to variations in fabric, dye and processing. This is common in apparel manufacturing, and we work hard to keep every item consistent.

	S		M		L		XL		2XL
	inch	cm	inch	cm	inch	cm	inch	cm	inch	cm
Chest	24.0	61	24.8	63	25.6	65	26.4	67	27.2	69
Length	25.6	65	26.4	67	27.2	69	28.0	71	28.7	73
Shoulder	22.4	57	23.2	59	24.0	61	24.8	63	25.6	65
Sleeve length	8.9	22.5	9.1	23	9.3	23.5	9.4	24	9.6	24.5

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