Personalized Custom Police Officer Shirt with Childhood Photo and Last Name – Vintage Photo Tee

This personalized custom police officer shirt is a throwback photo tee with a real backstory. OFFICER arches over his kid picture in antique gold, and his last name prints underneath in the same gold, big enough to read from across the academy parking lot.

He was saluting the neighbors at four. Now it’s official.

Upload his salute photo

Four years old, saluting the mailman

In the sample, a solemn little guy stands on the porch steps in a peaked cap and button-up shirt, hand snapped to his brow like it’s inspection day. DANIELS fills the bottom line in tall gold capitals.

Your version swaps in his own child photo shirt moment, dress-up or not, and his surname. Since it prints a name in large letters, it also works as a photo name shirt for the locker room.

How do I add his childhood photo and last name?

1. Decide on tee, long sleeve, crewneck or hoodie for the new officer, then his size.
2. Pick the shirt color.
3. Upload the kid photo and type his last name. The boy in our sample is replaced by your picture.
4. Check out. Completed example: a first-grade school picture, surname ALVAREZ.

From porch salute to sworn officer, on one shirt

• Police academy graduation gifts tend to be engraved pens and flag cases
• Most officer shirts are slogans or flags with no person in them
• The childhood salute photo has been on the fridge for twenty years

Kids who play cop on the porch sometimes grow up to take the oath for real. His childhood salute photo sits under OFFICER in antique gold, with his last name stretched across the bottom in tall matching capitals.

Crop-friendly kid photos are head-and-shoulders or waist-up in everyday clothes; swim and bath photos aren’t used. A surname alone gives the cleanest look.

Who it’s for

Usually it’s his parents, a few weeks from academy graduation, holding the porch photo of him saluting the mailman at four. They’ve looked at badge mugs and thin-line flags and want a gift that shows how far back this started.

• Graduation
• Birthday

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Picking the right garment

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

For cold-weather shifts, the 1566 crewneck sweatshirt in 80/20 fleece runs S to 3XL, and the 1567 hoodie (preshrunk, jersey-lined hood, matching drawcord, pouch pocket) runs S to 2XL. The tee and fleece are relaxed unisex.

Go true to size for relaxed, or one to two up on fleece for a roomy fit. Inches for those are listed on the size guide. Sleeves for roll call without the fleece?

The Comfort Colors 6014 long sleeve comes S to 3XL. Two kid-size garments round out the order form, the Comfort Colors 9018 youth tee in XS to XL and the Rabbit Skins 3326 toddler hoodie in 2T to 5/6T.

Production and transit

Printed by DTF or DTG depending on garment, his shirt takes 1 to 3 business days to make. USPS then delivers in 3 to 5 business days with a tracking number. Check our shipping page before a graduation date.

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