A co-ord set is a matching top and bottom bought as a pair, and ours come as a shirt and shorts in the same print, with a bucket hat to finish it. Wear all of it at once. Go full matching set for the photos, or clash two prints on purpose, get the sizing right across both pieces, and you have a complete outfit instead of half a good idea sitting in a drawer.
Co-ord sets are everywhere right now and almost every guide to them is written by somebody trying to talk you down. Keep it tonal. Mind the footwear. Choose something understated. You read three of those and end up buying a beige linen set that makes you look like a retired golf commentator on a cruise.
That is the problem with taking co-ord advice from fashion magazines. They are solving for restraint, and you are not. You bought a shirt covered in flamingos because you wanted people to laugh, point and talk to you, and no amount of tonal footwear is going to help with that.
So here is the version written by people who actually make the things. What a co-ord set is, which of ours run the full distance, how to size it, how to wear it as a group, how to wash it, and why wearing all of it at once is the entire point rather than a risk to be managed.
What a Co-ord Set Actually Is
Two pieces, one print, no thinking required
A co-ord, short for co-ordinated, is a top and a bottom sold to be worn together. Fashion writers have been calling it "the relaxed cousin of the suit" for about four years now, which is a very polite way of saying you get dressed in nine seconds and look like you meant it.
Ours work the same way with one obvious difference. The print does not stop at the waistband. A matching shirt and shorts set from us runs flamingos, mushrooms or a full galaxy from your collar to your knees, and the join between the two pieces is where it gets good.
The rest of the internet will tell you a co-ord is about looking effortless. We are not going to insult you with that. Nobody buys a set covered in psychedelic mushrooms to look effortless. You buy it because you want people to look, and then you want them to say something.
Not a fashion rule, a full commitment
Here is where we part company with every styling guide on the first page of Google. They will tell you to keep the palette tonal, to pick footwear that does not fight the set, to think about "understated elegance". Ignore all of it.
We make loud shirts, loud shorts, loud hats, loud ties and loud accessories, and we make them for the same person to wear at the same time. A set is not a way of containing the noise. It is a way of doubling it, because now the print covers twice as much of you.
You are not managing a risk when you put a co-ord on. You are removing the one excuse you had left, which was that the shirt looked odd with your shorts.
Our customers work this out fast. The first order is usually a shirt on its own, the second is the matching shorts, and by the third somebody has bought the hat and the bum bag and gone all in. Nobody has ever gone the other way.
What comes as a proper set right now
Four prints currently run the full distance: shirt, shorts and bucket hat, all in the same artwork. They live together in the co-ords collection, and that is twelve products making four complete looks.
Beyond those four, plenty of our prints run across a shirt and a bucket hat, or a shirt and a tie set, which gives you a two-piece match even where there are no matching shorts. The principle does not change. If two things match, wear both.
That stretches further than people realise. Bananas For Flamingos, Leopard Kiss, Magical Psychedelic, Retro Sticker and Fluorescent Fruit Fiesta all have a matching hat, and most have a matching tie. That is another five two-piece sets before you have even reached the shorts.
The Four Prints That Come as a Full Set
Flamingo Fandango
Pink, dense, and entirely unbothered. The Flamingo Fandango Shirt is our most requested print and the one that turns up in the most customer photos, usually from a pool somewhere hot.
Run it with the Flamingo Fandango Shorts and the Flamingo Fandango Bucket Hat and you have gone from "bloke in a nice shirt" to "the flamingo one" for the entire holiday. There is also a blazer and a tie set in the same print if you want to take it somewhere with a dress code.
Shroom and Trippy Space
The Shroom Shirt reads darker from across a room and then fills with detail when someone gets close, which makes it the set people end up inspecting. Pair it with the Shroom Shorts and the Shroom Bucket Hat.
Trippy Space goes the other way, all deep blues and swirling colour, and it photographs brilliantly under festival lighting. The matching shorts and bucket hat complete it, and there is a golf polo in the same artwork for anyone who wants to ruin a fourball.
Unicorn Poo
Named by a customer, kept because it was better than anything we came up with. The Unicorn Poo Shirt is the brightest thing we sell and the set version is genuinely difficult to look away from.
The shorts and bucket hat match exactly, and the Unicorn Poo Blazer exists for weddings where you have been asked to behave.
Matching Set or Full Clash: Both Are Right
The full matching set
Print head to knee, no interruptions. This is the version that gets photographed, because the eye reads it as deliberate rather than accidental, and deliberate is funnier.
It also solves the airport problem. You are not holding up two items over a suitcase at 4am wondering if they work together, because they were made together. Pack the set, wear the set, think about nothing.
The full match is the strongest option for group occasions too, which we get to further down. Six people in the same print walking into a bar has a physical effect on the room that one person cannot produce alone.
The deliberate clash
The other version, and the one we probably enjoy more, is putting two prints together that have no business being near each other. A Shroom Bucket Hat on top of a Flamingo Fandango Shirt is not a mistake. It is a second conversation starter stacked on the first one.
Clashing gets more comments in a pub queue than matching does, in our entirely unscientific experience of reading our own customer photos for three years. Something about the mismatch makes people ask, where the match makes people nod.
Neither is more correct. The only wrong answer is leaving half of it at home.
If you want a rule of thumb, and we are reluctant to give you one, match when you are with a group and clash when you are on your own. Matching does its best work as a crowd effect, and clashing does its best work up close where somebody can ask you about it.
The group version, half and half
Twelve people do not have to be in twelve identical sets. Split the group across two prints and you get a photo with structure in it, which looks better than a wall of the same thing.
Or let everyone pick their own and match only the bucket hats. The hats are the cheapest way to make a group read as a group from a distance.
The third option is the one large groups land on eventually: everybody in a full set, nobody in the same print. It looks like a paint chart walking down a street and it photographs better than anything else we see.
Building the Four-Piece
Start with the shirt and shorts
The shirt and shorts are the spine of it. Get those two in the same print and the rest is decoration, which is the fun bit rather than the necessary bit.
Our shorts are a gym and swim cut, which matters more than it sounds. They dry fast, they have a mesh lining, and they go straight from a sunbed into a pool and back out to a bar without a change of clothes. One pair covers your whole day.
Add the bucket hat
A bucket hat in the same print turns two pieces into an outfit. It is also the single most practical thing in the set, because it is the one doing the work on your scalp and the back of your neck.
The NHS sun safety guidance puts a wide brim ahead of a cap for exactly this reason, and Cancer Research UK says the same. Check the Met Office UV index before you decide the hat is optional.
Finish with the bum bag and shades
The fourth piece is whatever you strap to yourself. A Badass Bum Bag holds a phone, a passport and enough cash to be a problem, and it sits across the chest so nobody is fishing in a pocket at a bar.
Worn across the body rather than round the waist it also keeps your valuables in front of you in a crowd, which every piece of travel advice going will tell you is the sensible way round. Being both sensible and covered in flamingos is an achievable combination.
Then Send It Shades or the Bad Wayfarers on top. Four pieces, all loud, all at once. That is the finished version of this and there is no upper limit above it.
A fifth piece is available if you want it, because the Wanna Pizza This Bum Bag exists and it does not match a single thing we make. Strapping that over a flamingo set is a decision, and it is the right one.
Getting the Fit Right Across Two Pieces
Shirt sizing
Our shirts run true to size with a relaxed body and a camp collar, so if you normally take a large in a high street shirt, take a large here. The cut is built to hang open over a tee or be buttoned to the top, and both work.
If you are between sizes, go up. A co-ord shirt that is slightly roomy reads as intentional. One that is pulling across the chest reads as borrowed.
Shorts sizing
The shorts are a gym and swim cut with an elasticated drawstring waist, which forgives a lot. Take your usual waist measurement rather than your usual jeans label, because jeans labels lie and elastic does not.
| If your waist measures | Take | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 28 to 30 inches | S | Drawstring handles the rest |
| 31 to 33 inches | M | Most common size we ship |
| 34 to 36 inches | L | Go up if you want longer on the leg |
| 37 to 39 inches | XL | Comfortable through the thigh |
| 40 inches and above | 2XL and up | Same print, same cut, more of it |
When the two pieces disagree
It happens. Plenty of people take a large shirt and a medium short, or the other way round, because torsos and legs do not read from the same tape measure.
Buy them separately at the sizes that actually fit you rather than buying one size across the set for tidiness. Nobody can see the label. Everybody can see a badly fitting short.
If you are ordering for somebody else and guessing, guess up. A shirt that is slightly large gets worn all week, and a shirt that is slightly small gets left in the suitcase and quietly resented.
Co-ords for the Pool and the Beach
The shorts do two jobs
This is the argument for a set that most people do not think about until they have owned one. A gym and swim short means you are not packing swimwear and shorts separately, and you are not doing a costume change at a pool bar.
Swim in them, get out, put the shirt back on over the top, order a drink. The whole day runs on one outfit, which matters when you are travelling with hand luggage only and every item has to earn its place.
Drying, packing and the towel problem
Printed polyester dries quickly, which is the quiet advantage over a cotton short in a hot climate. Wring it out, hang it over a balcony rail, and it is ready before you are.
Roll the shirt rather than folding it and the creases drop out overnight. Our sets pack down to almost nothing, which is how people end up bringing three of them to Benidorm for a four day trip.
Cover up properly
Long days by a pool do more damage than people expect, and a printed shirt over your shoulders is doing real work on top of being funny. Open shirt, hat on, and you have covered the two spots that burn first.
The NHS is blunt about this and so are we. Wear the hat, drink water, and check the travel advice for wherever you are going before you leave.
Co-ords on a Stag Do
Why sets beat individual shirts for a group
A stag group in individual shirts looks like a group of blokes who all like shirts. A stag group in matching sets looks like an organised unit with a plan, which is much funnier, given the plan is usually nonsense.
It also makes the stag findable. Twelve people in Flamingo Fandango and one in Unicorn Poo means the stag is visible from the other end of a strip without anyone shouting.
There is a practical safety angle underneath the joke. A group that can see each other across a crowded bar loses fewer people, and a stag in a print nobody else is wearing gets walked back to the right hotel. Ask anyone who has spent an hour at 3am looking for a mate in a plain white tee.
The airport test
Sets pass the airport test that individual outfits fail. Everyone gets dressed in their own house, at their own hour, with no group chat argument about who is wearing what, and they all match at the gate anyway.
It also cuts the number of people who forget. Nobody leaves half a co-ord behind, because the set lives together in the drawer. If you are flying with Jet2, Ryanair or easyJet, the whole set rolls into a cabin bag with room left.
The photos you actually keep
Three years of stag photos have taught us one thing. The pictures that survive are the ones where the group committed, and the ones that get deleted are the ones where half the lads bottled it and wore a polo.
There is a version of this weekend where everyone turns up in navy and nobody remembers a thing about what anyone wore. There is another version where the set is in every photo and gets brought up at the wedding. It costs about the same either way.
Whether you are heading to the Algarve, Prague or Blackpool, the set is the thing the photos are about. Add a slogan tee for the second night and you have the weekend covered.
Co-ords on a Hen Do
Sets work for the whole group
Our sets are not cut for one gender and never have been. The shirts are relaxed and boxy, the shorts have a drawstring, and hen groups have been buying them in numbers for a while now without us having to say a word.
A hen group in Flamingo Fandango reads brilliantly in photographs, particularly in bright sun where the pink does most of the work for you.
It also lasts longer than the alternatives. A set gets worn again on the next holiday and the one after that, where the personalised t-shirts with everyone's nickname on go in a drawer on the Sunday and never come out again.
Mixing prints across the group
The version we see most often is the bride in one print and everyone else in another, which gives the photos a focus without anyone having to wear a sash.
Or split the group across Unicorn Poo and Trippy Space and let the two halves clash. It looks intentional in a way that matching sashes never manage.
Daytime into evening
The same set covers a pool afternoon and a night out, which is the practical reason hen groups keep coming back to them. Shirt buttoned for dinner, shirt open at the bar, hat on for the walk home.
If the hen do is in Liverpool, Brighton or Ibiza, you want one outfit that survives the whole day rather than three that need a hotel room in between.
Co-ords at a Festival
Finding each other in a crowd
Festival fields swallow people. Phone signal goes, meeting points get moved, and everyone ends up standing on a bin looking for a familiar face.
A matching set fixes it. Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds, Boomtown, Parklife and Creamfields are all easier when your group is wearing the same print, and it beats a flag on a pole because you do not have to carry it.
Mud, rain and British weather
Our shorts are made from the same printed polyester as the shirts, which means they shrug off a downpour and dry on you. That is not a small thing at Download in June.
The bucket hat does more here than it does on a beach, because it keeps drizzle off your face and keeps the sun off you at 3pm when the field has no shade at all.
Packing a set for a weekend
Two sets covers a four day festival if one of them is dark. Trippy Space hides a lot of sins, which is a genuine reason to own it rather than a joke.
Wear the first set on arrival day and the second on the big night, then repeat whichever survived. Nobody at a festival has ever once noticed that somebody wore the same thing twice, and if they did notice they would respect it.
Take a bum bag for the wristband, the phone and the cash, and you have removed the pocket anxiety that ruins a front row. Isle of Wight and Latitude crowds are full of people who learned this the hard way.
One more thing nobody tells you about festival co-ords. A full set is the easiest outfit in the world to describe to security, to a friend on the phone, or to the lost property desk on the Monday. Specificity is underrated when you are tired and can hear nothing.
Co-ords in the UK Against Co-ords Abroad
The British summer version
You get roughly eleven usable days a year and you should spend all of them in a full set. The shirt works open over a tee when it turns, which is the only concession the weather gets.
Beer gardens, race days and back garden barbecues are the natural home of a UK co-ord. Manchester in July has produced more customer photos than most Spanish resorts, largely because people are so surprised by the sun that they overcommit immediately.
Scotland, Cardiff and York all count too. A set in a British beer garden gets a better reaction than the same set in Marbella, because everyone around you is dressed for a funeral by comparison.
Costas, islands and the two week version
Abroad you can run a set every single day and nobody blinks. Spain, Portugal, Greece and Malta are all full of people who wish they had brought one.
Three sets covers a fortnight comfortably. They wash in a hotel sink, dry on a balcony, and take up less space than a pair of trainers.
City breaks and the smart version
Amsterdam, Krakow and Budapest are colder propositions, so this is where the blazer earns its keep instead of the shorts.
Same print, different weight, and you can walk into a restaurant without anyone asking if you are lost.
The Formal Clash: Blazers and Tie Sets
Blazer plus tie set
Weddings and race days have dress codes, and dress codes are an invitation rather than a restriction. A Flamingo Fandango Blazer with a matching tie set clears every code we have ever seen while still being the loudest thing in the room.
The tie sets come with a pocket square, which is the detail that makes the difference between looking like you turned up in fancy dress and looking like you own a tailor with a sense of humour.
The races and the wedding
Ascot, Aintree and Cheltenham all want a jacket and a tie, and all three are far more fun in a Unicorn Poo Blazer than in navy.
For weddings, ask the couple first, then wear it anyway. We have lost count of the groomsmen photos where one person committed and ended up in every single picture.
The Christmas do
Office parties are the natural home of a loud blazer, and December is when our tie sets move fastest. Start with the Magical Psychedelic Tie Set if you like, though everyone who does ends up ordering the blazer before the next December comes round.
The full version is blazer, tie, pocket square, all matching. It is a co-ord, just one that goes indoors in winter.
Which Set Suits Which Occasion
Day occasions
Bright prints do more in daylight, because the sun brings the colour up rather than flattening it. Unicorn Poo and Flamingo Fandango are built for a pool, a beer garden or a boat.
Pool days want the shorts more than the shirt, so that is where the gym and swim cut pays for itself twice over.
Night occasions
Deeper prints hold up better under bar lighting and club lighting, where a pale print can wash out. Trippy Space and Shroom come alive under anything ultraviolet.
| Occasion | Set that works hardest | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Pool day abroad | Flamingo Fandango | Shorts swim, shirt covers your shoulders |
| Festival weekend | Trippy Space | Dark print, hides a four day field |
| Stag do strip | Unicorn Poo | Visible from a very long way away |
| Hen do pool party | Flamingo Fandango | Photographs brilliantly in bright sun |
| Wedding or races | Blazer and tie set | Clears the dress code, ignores the spirit of it |
| Christmas do | Shroom blazer | Detail on close inspection, chaos from a distance |
The in-between days
Travel days, airport days, hangover days. The set is the easiest thing in the bag to put on when you are running on four hours sleep, because there is no decision in it.
That is the underrated argument for owning one. The outfit thinks for you on the day you cannot.
It works on a boat, at a barbecue, on the walk to a pub and on a 6am transfer coach. There is no scenario on a trip where the person in the full set is the one having a worse time.
What the Fabric Actually Feels Like
The shirts
Our shirts are a lightweight printed polyester with a soft finish, cut with a camp collar and a relaxed body. They are deliberately not stiff, because a stiff shirt in thirty degree heat is a punishment rather than an outfit.
The fabric holds colour far better than cotton does, which is the reason the prints look this saturated in the first place. You cannot get a flamingo that pink onto a cotton shirt without it going chalky after four washes.
It breathes better than people expect from a synthetic, and it dries in minutes. If you have ever sat in a soaked cotton shirt on a coach back from a beach, you will understand why that matters more than the label does.
The shorts
The shorts use a similar printed polyester with a mesh lining and an elasticated drawstring waist. They sit somewhere between a swim short and a gym short, which is the whole reason they work so hard on holiday.
The leg lands around mid thigh on most people, a little shorter on taller frames. There are side pockets and a back pocket, and the drawstring is a proper cord rather than the flat tape that gives up after a week.
The hats, ties and blazers
Bucket hats are a two layer construction with a stitched brim that holds its shape rather than flopping into your eyes. They crush into a bag and come back out fine, which is the only real test a festival hat has to pass.
The tie sets are a smooth woven finish with a matching pocket square, and the blazers are a structured single breasted cut with a full lining. Both are heavier than the summer pieces, which is exactly what you want them to be in December.
Buying Sets for a Whole Group
Getting sizes out of people
This is the hard part and it has nothing to do with clothes. Getting fourteen adults to reply to a WhatsApp message with a chest size is genuinely one of the great logistical challenges of modern life.
The trick that works: send one message with the sizes listed and ask people to reply with a single letter. Do not ask for measurements, do not ask for preferences, do not open the floor to discussion. One letter each.
Build in two extra sets at the most common size in the group. Somebody always joins late, somebody always orders the wrong thing, and a spare set has never once gone to waste on a stag do.
Timings that actually work
Order at least three weeks before you travel. That gives you room for a size swap, room for a delay, and room for the one person who orders a fortnight after everyone else.
| Group size | Order by | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 6 | 3 weeks before | Easy to swap a size if one is wrong |
| 7 to 14 | 4 weeks before | Someone will always be late replying |
| 15 plus | 5 to 6 weeks before | Spread the order, chase the stragglers |
Splitting the cost without falling out
One person pays and gets reimbursed is the fastest route, and the one most likely to end a friendship. Ask for the money up front, before you order, not after the sets have landed.
If the group is big, split the order in two and let each half sort itself out. Two people chasing seven each beats one person chasing fourteen.
Co-ords Past the Summer
Autumn and the shoulder season
The shirt does not stop working in September. Worn open over a long sleeve tee it carries straight through autumn, and the print does more good in grey weather than it does in bright sun.
This is also when the polos come into their own, because a long sleeve underneath turns a summer polo into an October one without any fuss.
Winter and indoor occasions
Winter is blazer season. The shorts go in the drawer, the blazer and the tie set come out, and the set moves indoors to Christmas parties, birthdays and the annual works do.
A matching blazer and tie in the same print is a co-ord in every sense that matters. Nobody calls it that because it has a collar, but the logic is identical.
Winter sun and the year round version
If you are chasing heat in January, everything above still applies. The Canaries, Dubai and anywhere long haul run summer rules all year, and a set packs smaller than the jumper you would otherwise bring.
The people who get the most out of a co-ord are the ones who stopped treating it as a two week a year purchase and started wearing it whenever the occasion allowed, which is more often than you would think.
Loud Sets for Sport and Match Days
Golf, where the loud polo belongs
Golf clubs have spent a century policing what people wear and the sport is far better for the recent collapse of that. A printed polo clears most club dress codes on a technicality, because it has a collar, and the rest is not their business.
The Trippy Space Golf Polo matches the shirt, the shorts and the bucket hat, which means you can arrive at a course in a full co-ord and still be let onto the first tee. Four people doing it turns a quiet fourball into an event.
It is also genuinely practical kit. A breathable polo and a wide brimmed hat is what you want across four hours in open sun, and the England Golf crowd have been quietly moving this way for years.
Football and the England shirt
Tournament summers are when our England Football Hawaiian Shirt disappears fastest, usually with the matching bucket hat going out in the same order.
There is a red away version too, with its own hat, so a group can split into home and away and still look like they turned up together. Fan zones, beer gardens and Wembley concourses are all better for it.
Rugby, cricket and the rest
The Scrum On My Face Rugby Tie Set exists for Six Nations weekends, which are the one fixture in British sport where a loud tie is close to compulsory.
Cricket is the same story in a different sport. A long day at the cricket is four hours of sitting in the sun and two hours of standing in a bar, and a printed shirt and hat is better equipment for that than anything technical.
Common Co-ord Mistakes and the Fixes
Leaving half of it at home
Far and away the most common one. People buy the set, pack the shirt, and leave the shorts because they already had shorts.
Take both. The set only does its job as a set, and a lone printed shirt over plain chino shorts is the outcome you spent money to avoid.
Buying one size across the set
The second most common. Somebody orders a large shirt and a large short because it feels tidier, and the short ends up either too big or too tight.
Size each piece to the part of you it covers. The co-ords collection lets you pick sizes independently for exactly this reason.
Washing it like a work shirt
Printed polyester does not want a hot wash and it really does not want a tumble dryer. High heat is what dulls a print, not wearing it.
Which has a good plain English explainer on wash temperatures if you want the detail. The short version is cold, inside out, hang it up.
Washing and Caring for a Printed Co-ord
The first wash
Wash the shirt and shorts together, cold, inside out, on a gentle cycle. Do it before the holiday rather than after you get back covered in factor 50 and sangria.
Skip the fabric softener. It sits on printed polyester and takes the sharpness off the colour over time.
Wash the bucket hat by hand in the sink instead of throwing it in with everything else. Two minutes of warm water and a bit of soap keeps the brim stiff, where a machine cycle will soften it permanently.
Drying without wrecking it
Hang dry, always, ideally out of direct sun. A tumble dryer will not destroy a print in one go but it will take the edge off it over a season.
Creases drop out of these fabrics on their own, so a hanger and an hour usually beats an iron. If you must iron, low heat and turn it inside out first.
Storage between holidays
Keep the set together. Shirt, shorts and hat on the same hanger or in the same drawer, because the whole point of owning a set falls apart the moment the pieces get separated across a wardrobe.
Bucket hats keep their shape better stuffed with a rolled tee than crushed flat under a suitcase lid.
Look after a set properly and it will do five or six holidays. Most of ours come back looking the same, which is more than you can say for the white trainers you bought at the same time.
Why a Loud Set Starts Conversations
What actually happens when you wear one
Somebody says something. That is the whole mechanism, and it works far more reliably than it has any right to.
A bloke in a plain shirt walks past a hundred people and speaks to none of them. A bloke in a full matching flamingo set gets stopped four times between the pool and the bar, and three of those turn into a conversation.
Where this came from
Our founder John lost his best friend Aine to mental illness in 2022. She was full of life and nobody saw it coming, which is the part that keeps people awake.
John had spent years travelling in loud shirts and had noticed what they did. Strangers talked to him. Conversations started that would not have started otherwise. The whole brand grew out of that observation and that loss, which you can read about properly on our story page.
Talking is the point
We are not going to pretend a shirt fixes anything. It does not. But it opens a door, and the people who need a door opened rarely open it themselves.
Every order helps us fund mental health charities. If you or someone near you is struggling, Mind and the Samaritans are both there, and the Mental Health Foundation has good plain guidance on starting a conversation with someone you are worried about.
None of that is the reason to buy a set. Buy one because it is funny and you want it. The rest happens quietly in the background whether you think about it or not.
Co-ord Set Questions We Get Asked
Do I have to wear the whole set together?
No, but you should. The pieces work on their own, and plenty of people wear the shorts with a plain tee to the gym. The set is where the value is though, and it is the version people react to.
Can I swim in the shorts?
Yes. They are a gym and swim cut with a mesh lining and a drawstring, built to go in the water and dry fast afterwards.
Will a matching set look like too much?
It will look like exactly as much as you paid for. Too much is the product, not a risk. Nobody has ever regretted being the person in the full set.
Can a mixed group all wear the same print?
Yes, and they do. The cuts are relaxed and the sizing runs from S to 5XL across most of the range, so a group of fifteen can all match without anybody getting stuck.
How many sets do I need for a week away?
Two if you are washing, three if you are not. They pack small enough that a third one costs you almost nothing in space.
Do the shorts and the shirt match exactly?
Yes. Same artwork, same colours, printed on the same fabric. The pattern scale differs slightly because a short is a smaller piece of cloth than a shirt, but they read as one print when worn together.
Can I wear a co-ord to a wedding?
Ask the couple, then do it. If the dress code needs a jacket, take the blazer and tie set route instead of the shirt and shorts, and you will clear every requirement on the invitation.
What size should I order for somebody else?
Their usual size, and if you genuinely do not know, go one up. A relaxed fit is the look anyway, so erring large costs you nothing.
Wear the Whole Thing
The short version
A co-ord set is a shirt and shorts in the same print, and ours add a bucket hat so it runs from your head to your knees. Wear all of it at once, match the group or clash on purpose, size each piece to your actual body rather than to the label, and wash it cold.
The four full sets are Flamingo Fandango, Shroom, Trippy Space and Unicorn Poo, and you can build a fourth piece on top with a bum bag and a pair of shades.
Go and get one
The next holiday, stag do, hen do or festival is close enough that you already know the date. Pick your print, take both pieces, add the hat, and turn up as the person who clearly meant it.
Start with whichever print made you laugh first. That instinct is almost always right, and it beats a fortnight of deliberating over which one goes best with your trainers.
Every set we sell helps fund mental health charities and starts conversations we will never hear about. Have a look through the co-ord sets at Bad Shirt Club and build yours, or go wider across the whole range if you want to clash instead of match.
