Personalized Custom Childhood Best Friend Shirt with Photo

The childhood best friend shirt is a personalized custom vintage photo tee, long sleeve, crewneck or hoodie built around the oldest picture you have of the two of you.

CHILDHOOD sits above the photo and BESTIES runs below it in big white letters, so anyone who sees it knows how far back you go.

Upload your oldest photo

The photo from when you were six

Our sample shows two little girls in overalls squeezed onto one swing, arms around each other, one grinning with a front tooth missing. The good news is that most families have a picture like this somewhere.

Look for the class photo, the sleepover in matching nightgowns, the first day of kindergarten at the bus stop, or the birthday party where you both had frosting on your faces.

It prints in black and white, which suits faded color prints from the 80s, 90s and 2000s. The white lettering keeps the look clean and close to an old yearbook page.

Working from a paper print? A scan is ideal. A phone photo of the print also works if you shoot it straight on, in daylight, with no glare.

How do I send an old photo for the memory photo tee?

Pick tee, long sleeve, crewneck sweatshirt or hoodie, plus your size.
Choose the shirt color. Two different colors look great side by side.
Upload the childhood photo. It replaces the sample picture of the two girls.
Tell us which photo or how to crop it. Example: the swing photo, 1998.

Why that faded swing set photo belongs on a shirt

Old photos of you two are stuck in your mom’s albums
Milestone birthday gifts start to feel generic after a certain age
Living states apart, it’s easy to forget how far back you go

The oldest photo of a friendship usually means more than the nicest one. CHILDHOOD above and BESTIES below in big white letters frame your kid photo in black and white, which flatters faded 80s and 90s prints and reads like a yearbook page.

Is a childhood best friend shirt a gift for her, or for you both?

Most buyers have a friend they’ve known since kindergarten and a faded photo of the two of them tucked in a parent’s album. She’s planning that friend’s 30th or 40th and wants a gift that makes the whole table ask for the story.

Your best friend turning 30 or 40

At the birthday dinner she opens your kindergarten photo, so the whole table ends up asking how long you’ve known each other.

The swing set friend, three states away

You rarely see each other now, which means wearing the same old picture on the same day counts for a lot.

Kindergarten friends at a reunion

Bring a few to the class reunion, since nobody else there will have proof from age five.

The boy from down the street

Guys wear this one too, and it’s an easy laugh when the photo shows you both on bikes in the cul-de-sac.

Sisters who were best friends first

Before either of you had other friends you had each other, and this puts that on one shirt.

The bride and her oldest friend

Matching ones at the bridal shower get photographed nonstop because the bride’s six-year-old face is on both.

Start the childhood tee

Sizes and what each garment feels like

The tee is a Comfort Colors 1717 in garment-dyed, 6.1 oz, 100% ring-spun cotton with a relaxed unisex cut, from S to 4XL.

The crewneck (Comfort Colors 1566) runs S to 3XL, and the hoodie (Comfort Colors 1567) runs S to 2XL with a lined hood, drawcord and pouch pocket. Both fleece options are 80% cotton and 20% polyester.

True size gives a relaxed fit; one or two sizes up gives the oversized look. Compare measurements on the size guide. There’s a Comfort Colors 6014 long sleeve in S to 3XL as well.

Smaller sizes come in two styles, the Comfort Colors 9018 youth tee (XS to XL) and the Rabbit Skins 3326 toddler hoodie (2T to 5/6T).

Your old photo gets printed by DTF or DTG, whichever suits the garment, at our shop in the USA. We need 1 to 3 business days to make it, and USPS then needs 3 to 5 business days, with tracking on every package. See our shipping policy for more.

Free US shipping on 2 or more items, or on any order of $75 or more.
A single item ships for a flat $5.99.
Misprinted or the wrong item? Send a photo within 15 days of delivery and we replace it or refund you.

Send the swing set photo