• What Part of Perkele... Finnish Language T-Shirt - Very Finnish Problems official t-shirt
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  • What Part of Perkele... Finnish Language T-Shirt - alternate view - Very Finnish Problems
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Very Finnish Problems

What Part of Perkele... Finnish Language T-Shirt

What Part of Perkele... Finnish Language T-Shirt

€27,95 EUR
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The question on this shirt is rhetorical, which is the only appropriate register for it. Perkele is Finland's most loaded expletive, and the What Part of Perkele Don't You Understand shirt makes clear that if you need to ask, the answer is probably all of it. In Finnish culture, the word carries force not through volume but through precision. It is used when the situation has crossed a threshold that ordinary language cannot address. The phrase on this shirt does not explain perkele. It assumes you already know.

A solid choice for anyone who has lived in, loved, or survived Finland.

Unisex fit, true to size. 100% combed and ring-spun cotton (heather colours contain polyester). Fabric weight 4.2 oz/yd². Pre-shrunk, side-seamed, with shoulder-to-shoulder taping.

The shirt itself

This is not a tourist shop shirt that goes stiff and sad after one wash. The design is printed straight into the fabric using DTG, so it stays soft and will not crack, peel or fade the way a pressed on transfer does. The blanks are OEKO-TEX certified, which means they are tested free from harmful substances and safe against your skin. Every shirt is printed to order in small numbers rather than mass produced and left in a warehouse, so what arrives is made for you and built to be worn for years.

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Joel Willans, founder of Very Finnish Problems

Designed in Helsinki by someone who actually lives here

Very Finnish Problems is run by Joel Willans, a British writer who moved to Finland over twenty years ago and never quite got around to leaving. Every design comes out of real Finnish life he's had with his Finnish wife, Anna and their kids, and a community of more than 1.3 million people who know exactly what no niin means.

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