Our Story

Why this exists

Every year, thousands of electricians, nurses, truck drivers and teachers work their final shift. The party gets organised, the speeches get written — and then everyone buys the same mug.

Retirewear makes one thing: shirts that name the trade someone actually gave their working life to, in their own language, stamped with the year they clocked out. Not "Happy Retirement". The job. The word they answered to for forty years.

How we make them

Every shirt is printed to order in Europe on heavyweight ring-spun cotton — nothing sits in a warehouse, nothing ships from the other side of the world. Order placed, shirt printed, tracked parcel to your door.

The Class of 2026

Each design carries the year badge. This year's shirts are for this year's leavers — when the calendar turns, so does the catalogue.