Name: The Optimist T-shirt
Brand: Modern Hobos
SKU: the-optimist-t-shirt
Price: 27.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Ramon Puyol created The Optimist in 1936 on the eve of the Spanish Civil War, which makes its existence almost heroic. The Optimist wears its wide-eyed conviction on its sleeve, certain that everything will work out if people would simply behave sensibly. Though, historically, they do not. Even now, The Optimist persists. It reads our grim headlines but still believes in silver linings, policy miracles, and the power of positive thinking against all available evidence.

The Optimist is the colleague at work who insists “this could be good for us,” the friend who treats bleak political cycles like character-building exercises, the person who sees a crisis unfolding and responds with “well, maybe this is what we needed.” The Optimist is both endearing and baffling, marching cheerfully into storms with the blind faith of someone who has learned nothing from the past 300 years.

Puyol’s original feels like a tribute to those rare humans who carry hope even when history insists otherwise. Wear this tee when you want to root for them—quietly, skeptically, and maybe against your better judgment.

Solid colors are 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton
Ash color is 99% combed and ring-spun cotton, 1% polyester
Heather colors are 52% combed and ring-spun cotton, 48% polyester
Athletic and Black Heather are 90% combed and ring-spun cotton, 10% polyester
Heather Prism colors are 99% combed and ring-spun cotton, 1% polyester
Lightweight fabric (4.2 oz)
Regular fit
Unisex sizing

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Because the products are made to order, we do not accept general returns or sizing-related returns.