Personalized Custom 4 Generations Shirt with Four Family Photos – Vintage Photo Tee

The 4 generations shirt is a personalized custom photo tee, long sleeve, crewneck or hoodie that places four family portraits side by side in tall black and white panels, oldest to youngest, under a white 4 GENERATIONS headline. It’s a family timeline you can wear to brunch.

Upload four family photos

Four panels, one family line

In the sample, a silver-haired great grandmother rests her chin on her hand, then comes her daughter in a soft cardigan, then a young mom with long hair, and last a baby girl in a headband grinning at the camera.

Each photo is cropped into a narrow vertical strip and toned to grayscale, so a 1970s snapshot and last week’s phone picture sit together without clashing.

Head-and-shoulders shots crop best into those tall panels. Pictures can come from any decade, and they don’t have to be taken on the same day.

How do I send four photos?

1. Decide on tee, long sleeve, crewneck or hoodie for each person, then the size.
2. Pick a shirt color. Ordering for each generation? Everyone can choose her own.
3. Upload all four photos, which replace the sample portraits.
4. List who goes where, left to right. Example: Ruth, Carol, Jenna, Ava. The names guide placement only.

Four generations side by side, from any decade

• Getting four generations into one photo is nearly impossible to schedule
• Gifts for a 90-year-old end up as another blanket or a plant
• Old family photos sit in albums only one person ever opens

Four living generations at once is rare enough that families want it written down somewhere. Four tall black and white panels line up oldest to youngest under 4 GENERATIONS, so a 1970s snapshot of great grandma sits right beside last week’s baby picture.

Baby and kid photos should be head-and-shoulders or waist-up in everyday clothes.

Who orders a 4 generations shirt?

Usually it’s the new mom, holding the baby who made it four generations, realizing there’s no single photo of all of them. Sometimes it’s a sister or cousin planning great grandma’s 90th, gathering pictures from four different decades.

• Mother’s Day
• Milestone birthday
• Family reunion
• Christmas

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Fabric and fit

Most families choose the Comfort Colors 1717 tee, which is garment-dyed 6.1 oz ring-spun cotton in a relaxed unisex cut, S to 4XL.

For older relatives who run cold, the 1566 crewneck sweatshirt (S to 3XL) and the 1567 hoodie (S to 2XL) are 80/20 fleece; the hoodie is preshrunk with a lined hood and a pouch pocket. Size up one or two for an oversized fit.

The size guide has measurements for each garment. Great-grandpa can also have his arms covered in the Comfort Colors 6014 long sleeve, S to 3XL.

The youngest generation gets its own picks: the Comfort Colors 9018 youth tee in XS to XL, or the Rabbit Skins 3326 toddler hoodie in 2T to 5/6T.

We print with DTF or DTG depending on the garment, and every package goes out from the USA. Production takes 1 to 3 business days, plus 3 to 5 business days by USPS with tracking. See our shipping page.

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