Aesthetic Electrician Christmas Shirt Wire Tree Pliers Meters Gift

Aesthetic Electrician Christmas Shirt: A Tree Wound From Orange Cable

On this design, the Christmas tree isn’t pine at all. It’s a tall cone of coiled orange wire, wrapped in a string of colored bulbs, with a yellow lightning bolt standing where the star would go. Three pairs of pliers sit tucked into the coils like ornaments, and a few round baubles hang between them.

Around the base, a row of electric meters and breaker panels holds the whole thing up. Dials, small digital readouts and little switches line the bottom edge, the sort of gear an electrician sees on every job site. Our Electrician Christmas shirt is a holiday tee for the lineman, the wireman or the apprentice who spends the year around panels and spools, and who would rather decorate with their own tools than with anything store-bought.

For the Person Who Strings Lights All Year

Some people spend their working days pulling cable through walls and tracing a dead circuit in a cold attic. When December comes, they still end up on a ladder with a tangled strand of bulbs, and somehow they’re the one everyone calls. This tee is for that person. The pliers look like they’ve been used, the meters are lined up the way a panel board would be, and the bulbs glow in soft blues, greens and ambers.

It also suits a few other people in the family. A wire tree shirt with pliers and meters makes sense for the dad who has rewired half the house, the sister just finishing her apprenticeship, or the husband who comes home with copper dust on his boots. We made the artwork for that kind of person, the one who reads a holiday tree as a small wiring job.

Wear it to the shop party, the family dinner or the night the tree finally goes up. It sits easily under a work jacket, and it gives the room something to talk about before anyone says a word.

Who Else Could Wear This Electrician Christmas Tee?

Anyone who works with wire, current or tools will probably get the joke right away. That covers electricians, maintenance techs, solar installers, engineers and the relatives who inherited a toolbox. The theme is Christmas, but the design speaks to the trade, so it also works for a gift swap among coworkers or a stocking for someone who has everything except a shirt about their own job.

Hang it with the rest of the holiday clothes and it comes out again each December, right next to the lights it was drawn around.