Funny Florida Christmas Shirt Alligator Shes From Florida I Can Tell

A Gator in a Santa Hat Settles the Question

The printed line says She’s From Florida, I Can Tell, and the alligator beneath it is already in on the joke. He lounges in the sand with a red Santa hat pushed low and mirrored red sunglasses on, grinning wide, a string of Christmas bulbs looped around his shoulders as if he decorated himself. A pink flamingo leans in from the left in her own tiny Santa hat and shades, tangled in lights too. Podluna drew the two of them like old neighbors who have seen every December in the sun, and the grin on that gator says he has no plans to trade it for snow.

Around the pair, the scene keeps building. A palm tree wound with lights leans over a teal beach chair, the sun sinks into the water behind it, and a small Christmas tree with a gold star stands at the edge of the sand. Red hibiscus, white plumeria, orange slices, a candy cane, seashells and glass ornaments circle the bottom, so the wreath is made from the coast instead of pine. The sunset sits low and orange behind the palms, the kind of light that keeps a holiday party running late. It is a tropical December drawn the way someone who grew up there would remember it, with the waves still rolling and the lights already on.

Funny Florida Christmas Shirt, Alligator Included

This funny Florida Christmas shirt is for the woman who still says y’all in a snowy parking lot and the daughter who flew home for the holidays with sand still in her shoes. The line is meant to be said about her, fondly, by someone who knows her accent, her sweet tea standards and her habit of wearing sandals long past Thanksgiving. It fits the tree trimming party, the family card photo, the airport on the way south, and the cookie swap where someone asks where she is from and the answer is already there in big letters. She does not have to say a word, and the alligator does the grinning for her.

Who else on the gift list would laugh at the alligator?

Anyone with a Florida connection will get the joke, from a sister who moved north to a grandmother who winters near the Gulf. Natives and transplants alike tend to recognize the flamingo, the gator and the beach chair as the version of the state they carry with them.

Somewhere between the hibiscus and the teal beach chair there is room for the person you picture the moment you read that line.