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Texas Patriotism is a small independent shop and a style journal built around one idea: a Texas shirt should mean something to the person wearing it.

What we make

Graphic tees drawn around the things people actually miss about Texas. Bluebonnet season on the shoulder of a farm road. A Friday night on a wooden dance floor. A windmill holding still against a sunset. The Lone Star, used properly and not as filler.

What we avoid is souvenir-shop clip art and slogans that would work just as well with another state name dropped in.

How the shop works

Every design is printed on demand and shipped by our print partner. Nothing sits in a warehouse waiting to be discounted, which is why the catalogue stays deliberately small and each design gets the room it deserves. You can browse what is available in the shop.

Why we write

Selling a shirt takes ten seconds. Knowing when the bluebonnets actually open, which stretch of highway is worth the drive, or what survives four songs on a dance floor takes longer, and nobody writes it down properly.

So we do. Season guides, style guides, gift guides. Written to stand on their own, whether or not a shirt ever ends up in your cart.

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Articles on this site link to our own shop, and we say so plainly rather than dressing this up as a neutral review site. Everything else on the page, from bloom dates to dance hall etiquette to how to keep a print from cracking, is written to be useful on its own terms.

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Questions about an order, a design idea, or something we got wrong in an article: the contact page is the fastest way to reach us.

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What to Wear to a Texas Two-Step Night

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The first time you walk into a Texas dance hall on a Friday night, the dress code hits you before the music does. Nobody is in costume. Nobody is trying too hard. And yet everyone somehow looks right. If you have a two-step night coming up and you are staring at your closet, here is what actually works on a wooden floor in Texas. Start with the shirt, but keep it simple A two-step is a moving dance. You will be turning, your arms will be up, and after four songs you will be warm. That rules out anything stiff, anything you have to keep adjusting, and anything you would be sad to sweat in. A soft cotton tee is the honest answer. Ring-spun cotton breathes, moves with you, and looks better the more you wear it. Cream, black and navy all read well under warm dance hall lighting, and they photograph better than bright colors when someone inevitably pulls out a phone. Our Texas Two-Step Shirt was drawn with exactly this night in mind, but any well-cut Texas tee does the job. Boots mat...
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12 Gifts for Someone Who Loves Texas More Than Anything

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Buying for a Texan is easy to get wrong. The state is on so much merchandise that most of it has stopped meaning anything, and the person you are shopping for can spot a gas station souvenir from across the room. What works is something specific. A place they know, a season they wait for, a habit they have. Here are twelve gifts that pass that test, sorted by budget. Under 30 dollars 1. A shirt about their part of Texas. Not the state outline. The thing they actually love about it. If they drive farm roads with the windows down, the Backroads wildflower tee lands better than anything with a longhorn on it. 2. Bluebonnet seed for their yard. Sown in the fall, it comes up in March. A gift that shows up again every spring is hard to beat. 3. Local hot sauce or salsa from a maker they have not tried. There are hundreds of small Texas producers. Skip the ones already on grocery shelves. 4. A tin of good coffee from a Texas roaster. Pairs well...
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Texas Bluebonnet Shirts: A Wildflower Season Guide

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For about three weeks every spring, the shoulders of Texas highways turn blue, and half the state pulls over to sit in a field. Bluebonnet season is short, it is unpredictable, and it is one of the few traditions that everyone here takes part in without being asked. Here is what to know about it, and what to wear if you are the one taking the photos. When bluebonnets actually bloom Peak bloom usually lands between late March and mid-April, though it moves around a lot. South Texas goes first, Central Texas follows a week or two later, and North Texas brings up the rear. The size of the bloom depends almost entirely on rainfall the previous autumn. A wet October gives you a spectacular April. A dry one gives you a thin, patchy year, and no amount of spring rain fixes it after the fact. This is why bluebonnet years are talked about the way other places talk about vintages. Where to go Ennis holds the official Texas Bluebonnet Trail and is designated the state Bluebonnet City. Burne...
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What to Wear to a Texas Two-Step Night

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The first time you walk into a Texas dance hall on a Friday night, the dress code hits you before the music does. Nobody is in costume. Nobody is trying too hard. And yet everyone somehow looks right. If you have a two-step night coming up and you are staring at your closet, here is what actually works on a wooden floor in Texas. Start with the shirt, but keep it simple A two-step is a moving dance. You will be turning, your arms will be up, and after four songs you will be warm. That rules out anything stiff, anything you have to keep adjusting, and anything you would be sad to sweat in. A soft cotton tee is the honest answer. Ring-spun cotton breathes, moves with you, and looks better the more you wear it. Cream, black and navy all read well under warm dance hall lighting, and they photograph better than bright colors when someone inevitably pulls out a phone. Our Texas Two-Step Shirt was drawn with exactly this night in mind, but any well-cut Texas tee does the job. Boots mat...
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