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  • Pure PRKL Unisex T-Shirt - Finnish t-shirt from Very Finnish Problems
  • Pure PRKL Unisex T-Shirt - Finnish t-shirt from Very Finnish Problems
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Very Finnish Problems

Pure PRKL Finnish Language T-Shirt

Pure PRKL Finnish Language T-Shirt

€27,95 EUR
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Prkl. Three consonants, no vowels. That is the entire word, stripped down to what Finns consider the essential part.

The full form is perkele, a word with a history that begins with a thunder god and ends with a text message. Somewhere in the middle it became the most Finnish thing a person can say when something goes wrong, when something goes right or when something simply requires acknowledgement. The vowels were never carrying their weight anyway.

This shirt does not explain Finnish. It is just proof that whoever wears it has already done the explaining, more times than they wanted to.

Size guide

  XS S M L XL 2XL 3XL 4XL
Length (inches) 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
Width (inches) 16 ½ 18 20 22 24 26 28 30
  XS S M L XL 2XL 3XL 4XL
Length (cm) 69 71 74 76 79 81 84 86
Width (cm) 42 46 51 56 61 66 71 76

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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