About
Homeroom makes place-name sweatshirts, tees and caps for Upstate New York, designed by a human in Rochester and printed to order in the United States. Nearly every design is a real place, spelled the way people there say it.
Who makes it
Homeroom is a one-person shop in Rochester, New York. Stephanie, a journalist by training, draws every design, picks every color and answers every email; there is no customer-service department, just her.
There are over a hundred places on the front of a garment right now, across Greater Rochester, Western New York, the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks. They are towns, streets, lakes, and the corners of towns that people say they’re from. If yours isn’t here yet, ask. Requests decide what gets drawn next.
What it’s printed on
The tee is the Comfort Colors 1717: 6.1 oz, 100% ring-spun cotton, garment-dyed, with a relaxed unisex fit. The sweatshirt is the Comfort Colors 1566: 9.5 oz fleece, 80% ring-spun cotton and 20% polyester, garment-dyed, with a ribbed collar, cuffs and waistband. The long-sleeve tee is the 6014, and the kids’ line is the 9018 tee and the 1467Y hoodie, all garment-dyed cotton.
The cap is the Comfort Colors CCWC0 Coastal Washed Cap: enzyme-washed cotton twill, an unstructured six-panel crown, a curved bill and an adjustable closure.
Garment-dyed means the finished piece is dyed, not the fabric it was cut from. That is where the washed, lived-in color comes from, and why the shade varies a little from one run to the next. We think that’s the point.
How it’s made
Nothing here sits in a warehouse. When you order, the design is printed directly onto your garment with water-based ink, in the United States. The caps are embroidered, block capitals in a single thread color, centered on the front panel, also in the United States.
Printed pieces typically leave production in 2–5 business days and arrive within 4–10. Caps take longer to stitch: about 10 business days in production, 12–15 to your door. Those are the real windows, and they are the same on every page of this site, at checkout, and in your order confirmation.
The places
Towns and villages, neighborhoods, streets and roads, lakes and ponds, parks and glens, and a few of the clubs and courts where people show up. Each one is a place with a name, and each passed the same test: would someone from there be glad to see it across their chest in collegiate letters? If the answer was no, it isn’t here.
We don’t print team logos or anybody’s face. We print places.
If something isn’t right
A misprint, the wrong item, a package that never came: write to us. A mistake of ours costs you nothing; a change of mind is covered by a 30-day return window. The details are on the Shipping and Returns pages, in plain English.