Hidden Message from Sao Paulo.

Aynsley (CAN): "This is one of my first traded shirts - traded it with
Bia. It's from São Paulo and since I got it in 1991 it's from that
time. Look closely, it says something in the flag."

Sweden Rocks.

Andrew (USA): This shirt is actually from my sister amelia vottero,
who wanted me to send it in. it's pretty cool – she got from a swedish
leader at her village in 2001 in sao jose dos campos, brasil."

Italian Anniversary.

This picture was sent by Anna (GER). The design originates from CISVs
50th anniversary brochure that was printed in 2001.

Hugged.

Linda (FIN): "This one is black with hands in back and front says
"I've been hugged by CISV Finland". It's t-shirt of Helsinki chapter
and it was printed at spring 2004. I like the idea - its very cute and
cisv-spirited t-shirt in my opinion :)"

Pink is Punk.

Nano (CRC):"My oldest CISV t-shirt by far. Got it from Tan Tan, a
japanese kid in 1995 at my Village in Brazil. (Pink is Punk!)"

Portugal Anniversary.

From Teresa (POR).

Freaking Freezing Sweden.

Kate (CAN): "Sweden is'nt just cool, it's freaking freezing was made by a
friend I met at my seminar in the Netherlands. I love it because it's from
Frida and also because of the spelling error"

Sow a seed and plant a tree.

Front and Back of a CISV Indonesia shirt with a line from the CISV
song - nice. Pri (BRA): "I swaped this T-Shirt in 2003.".

We make a difference.

Alanna (CAN): "This shirt is from Camp Dif (Summer Camp) in Michigan
City 2001 where I was staff, it was created by the delegates, and like
it says, they make a difference."

Kakmonster

Aynsley (CAN): "Kakmonster Kamp is my Seminar Camp in Philadelphia
(1998). The name came from a conversation among some participants
about Sesame Street. The infamous Chris Pollock and Caroline Sandman
are responsible for the lovely artwork. And we all know that everyone
wants a pony!"

Savoie.

Andrew (USA): "This shirt is from my dad's j.c., where he got this from "Herve Gonay," whose name is still sewn into the back of the t-shirt." I think this is an interesting shirt - I have never seen a CISV logo that looked like this: The letters are somehow squeezed between the lines of longitude on a somewhat flatter globe. Either it used to be the logo of the time, or CISV Savoie applied a few modifications of their own.

The Hug Theory.

Pri (BRA): "Every year, the chapter from São Paulo have new t-shirts.
This belongs to 2004 collection."

Maine.

Another piece from the collection of Anna (GER).

Kalevala

This is the shirt, Nano (CRC) is refering to in this previous post. "Kalevala: This one, I got last year too, from Heidi. I did not go to that camp, and I am not sure if she did either, but she sure was willing to trade it! Really cool t-shirt!" I suppose there are manyother T-shirts out there, where the designer modified the CISV logo. By the way, do you know what Kavelala is? I didn't.

Pura Vida!

"This is the camp shirt of the seminar held in Costa Rica in July 2004 (my first CISV camp ever). It was designed by Emy (ITA) and Lee (USA). It has turned to be one of my favorite shirts due to the great memories it brings." Tubi (CRC)

CISV Congo.

Nano (CRC): "CISV Monkeys? Yes! My most recent camp, here in CR.
Designed by JC's Maja (SWE) and Heather (USA) it is a sort of revival
of Kalevala in monkeys!"

Danger: CISVers crossing.

Shirt sent by Teresa (POR).

pictogram

Kate (CAN): "My favourite shirt ever. This one comes from Isreal and has always
made me laugh. My best friend traded for it when she was a JC because she
knew how much I love the shirt." (It took me a while to get what the
picture for the letter S was...not 100% politically correct, I guess.)

Watermelon

Aynsley (CAN): "The idea for this shirt came from the Brazilian
delegation to the Seeds of Diversity Summer Camp in Victoria, Canada,
in 2002. This is one of my favourite CISV shirts of all time!"

1979.

Andrew (USA): "This comes from the Ada-Findley chapter, and is the shirt for the summer camp that they held in 1979. Many chapter volunteers got it, which is how it made it's way to my dad, and thenon to me." Wow. I think this is the oldest shirt in the collection until now. I wonder, though, why they put 79 into quotes?

Seagull-Seminar

Kate (CAN): This is the sweatshirt from my seminar camp in the
Netherlands. We spent a lot of time arguing about the colour and style
of these shirts and in the end it really didn't matter. We all had a
pretty good laugh when it turned out that eveyone just got what they
wanted in the end. The design was done by Laila Kenawy from Egypt.
Each of the people from the camp were made into seagulls because we
had a lot of jokes about the annoying seagulls at our camp.

Maple Leaf CISV.

Alex wearing a really old Toronto shirt - a true collectible. Picture
sent by Kate (CAN).

The Archive is Growing Fast.

Especially after James posted the news of this site to the IJB website, I'm receiving tons of pictures of great CISV T-shirts. Thank you so much, Allanah, Pris, Peter, Andrew (I do remember you!) Zeke, Steve, Anna and Aynsley . I'll be posting them one by one, when I find the time, so please have a little patience. But keep those goodies coming! I'd love to see a few more pictures with people actually wearing their shirts and more interesting background stories like the USA mystery shirt. But of course, any contribution is welcome. I've tweaked the system of this website a little bit, so now you can send the pictures any size you want, and I'll publish them 500 px wide, so you can take an even closer look of those fabulous designs.

Sign language

Another contribution from Anna's (GER) collection - it either belongs to Fabian, Felix or me - she collected them all in order to get her mum make a quilt out of them...

X-Ray CISV.

Australia's shirt in the typrical aborigine x-ray drawing style.
Picture sent by Pri (BRA).

Flowers from Portugal.

I'd say this is another very popular shirt, which also exists in green
with red flowers.
Anna (GER) said that she traded it with Chica in her village in Germany 1994 .

Guatemala.

After Steve and Zeke, now also Anna (GER) has photographed her
(family's) CISV shirt collection. This is the first one in the series:
Handy Globe from Guatemala.

usa usa usa jb jb jb.

"This is the back of a CISV USA Junior Branch shirt that I think was made in 2001." Steve (USA)

Village of Dreams

Another one of Steve(USA)'s collection: "Camp T-Shirt from the Village
of Dreams in Londrina, Brazil, 2000. On the back are flags of all the
represented countries."

Sea the world.

Steven(USA) : "A Camp shirt from the Sea the World Summer Camp in the
Netherlands, 2002 in which I was International Staff."

Czechoslovakia 1991

"In 1991 I was part of the Philadelphia delegation that went to a Pioneer Camp in Czechoslovakia, and we had these T-Shirts made for our travel. Can't really say there are that many around." says Steven (USA). Personally, I think it's a historic T-shirt in many ways: First there are no more Pioneer camps, second, the country Czechoslovakia doesn't exist any more and third, it is the old CISV logo here.

CISV Hamburg brings people together...

Another shirt from Steve (USA): "This is a CISV Hamburg T-Shirt that I
got at a village in 2000."

Bologna.

"Got this in 2000 from an Italian friend." Steven (USA)

Through The Looking Glass.

Steven (USA): "This is the camp T-Shirt from the summer camp I
directed this past
summer in the Smoky Mountain Chapter, USA."

Hugging Chess

Steven (USA) dug out his personal collection: "I think of all the CISV
shirts I've seen, this one is still my favorite. I got this in 1996
from Adi at our Seminar Camp!"

Fillie Phlags.

Zeke (CRC) again: "I got this tshirt from Deena Patel the leader from USA at the village in Rio de Janeiro in July of 2002 (Tabaretetuba Village)". Personally, I think CISV Philadelphia must have sold at least azillion copies - I have seen it so many times.

CISV in a bottle.

"Got it in April of 2004 in Uruguay at the ARC meeting. It was a present from
the chapter for the ARC participants." Zeke (CRC).

Latvia

Zeke has really been busy taking pictures: "Got it in Imagination Camp
in Amager Denmark in 1999 from one of the International Kitchen Staffs
that came from Latvia."

Flower Power.

Another contribution from Zeke (Costa Rica): "This is the famous flower power cisv germany tshirt. I got it from Irmtraud Steiner (who's currently the CISV germany village chair) at a Village in Lyon,France in 2001 (Cheese Village)"

Missing Link.

Zeke writes about this T-Shirt: "Got it in Imagination Camp in Amager
Denmark in 1999 from the Estonian JC called Margit."

T-Shirt Mystery!

Another T-Shirt from James (USA): He tells us: "It has a mysterious past. It came from the bottom of a box of old tshirts from the Ada-Findley-Lima chapter. It was the last of its kind, discovered in 2001. There is not chapter or program named on the shirt, only the word "skyline." Some 'old-timers' suggest that it comes from Cincinnati in the late 70's. Other's think it was a camp t-shirt from around the same time. If anyone can shed light on the mystery, this whole tshirt site will be well worth it." So...who knows more?

First time swap.

A contribution from James (USA): The first T-Shirt he ever traded when he was 11 years old...with "Tall Matthias".