Personalized Custom Electrician Shirt with His Childhood Photo and Name – Vintage Photo Tee

This electrician shirt is a personalized custom photo tee built around one picture: him as a little kid, already wiring something he shouldn’t. ELECTRICIAN runs across the top in white, his childhood photo sits in the middle in black and white, and his first name prints big underneath.

It’s the funny dad t-shirt he’ll actually wear to the job.

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What does the electrician shirt look like?

Our sample shows a small boy in a plain tee and a plastic tool belt, holding a lit flashlight under his chin and grinning like he just found the breaker panel. Above him, ELECTRICIAN is set in tall, clean white capitals.

Below, the name MIKE fills the width in the same white lettering. No outlines, no clutter, just the old photo toned to grayscale so it reads like a print from the family album.

The kid in the photo is the joke. The guy wearing it is the grown man who rewired the kitchen on a Saturday and still keeps a headlamp in the truck. Keep the name line to one short word if you can; long names shrink to fit.

Ordering his custom photo tee

1. Pick the garment and size. Tee, long sleeve, crewneck or hoodie, then his usual size.
2. Choose a shirt color. Every color keeps the white lettering.
3. Upload his childhood photo and type the name. Our sample boy is swapped out for your picture, and the name box prints exactly what you enter.
4. Check out. Completed example: a scan of him at six in his dad’s hard hat, name line TONY.

Why his kid photo beats another voltage pun

• Electrician shirts online lean on the same shock and voltage puns
• He won’t wear anything fussy to the job site
• Father’s Day gifts for tradesmen end up being a tool he already owns

A grown man will happily wear a goofy shirt all day if the joke is his own childhood. ELECTRICIAN across the top, his kid photo in grayscale, and his first name filling the bottom in white make the flashlight story the whole design.

A phone snapshot of an old print works if you shoot it in daylight without glare. Waist-up kid photos in everyday clothes crop best. Please skip anything taken at the pool or in the bath.

Who usually orders this one

It’s usually his wife who finds the picture first: him at five with a flashlight and a toy tool belt. She’s tired of buying him another lightning-bolt slogan shirt and wants one with a story he’ll actually tell.

• Father’s Day
• Birthday
• Milestone birthday

Start his electrician tee

Because nothing on the print is tied to a date, it also works as a name birthday shirt for his 40th or a cool dad shirt for any weekend.

Fabric, fit and which size to grab

The t-shirt is a Comfort Colors 1717: garment-dyed, 6.1 oz, 100% ring-spun cotton, relaxed unisex fit, sizes S to 4XL.

For job sites in January, the 1566 crewneck (80/20 cotton-poly fleece, S to 3XL) and the 1567 hoodie (80/20 fleece, preshrunk, jersey-lined hood, pouch pocket, S to 2XL) cover him.

Order his normal size for a relaxed fit, or go up one or two on the fleece for an oversized look. Measurements live on the size guide.

Also offered: the Comfort Colors 6014 long sleeve (S to 3XL), Comfort Colors 9018 youth tee (XS to XL) and Rabbit Skins 3326 toddler hoodie (2T to 5/6T).

Print and timing

We print it by DTF or DTG depending on the garment, then pack it ourselves. Production takes 1 to 3 business days, and USPS tracked delivery adds 3 to 5 business days, so plan on roughly 4 to 8 business days in all.

Tracking and carrier notes for his order are on our shipping page.

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Questions about his electrician shirt

Browse more trade and job designs in our profession shirts, or see the full lineup of Father’s Day shirts.