A Grateful Dead 1992 Summer Tour tee — skeleton playing croquet on the front, full tour poster on the back — that spent its early life as a sleep shirt. Worn until it gave out. Kept anyway.
The back has the full tour — Mountain View, Las Vegas, Orchard Park, Albany, Richfield, East Rutherford, Washington DC, Burgettstown, Chicago, Noblesville, Hebron. Real places, real dates. Because even wrecked, it's a document. Most vintage tees are — and nobody's treating them that way.
And a Savannah Sand Gnats crewneck from a family trip — same story. Worn until it fell apart. Both destroyed. Both kept. TeeTracker is the attempt to build the resource that doesn't exist — a documented archive where every entry has photos, tag details, graphic descriptions, cultural context, and construction notes. Think Discogs for tees. Every entry is a record that didn't exist anywhere before someone put it here.
The reseller who needs to date a mystery blank before pricing it. The collector who found a single-stitch Anvil at a Goodwill and wants to know what they're holding. The person who just spent real money on a bootleg rap tee and wants to verify it. The obsessive who already knows all of this and wants somewhere to put what they know.
If you've been doing this long enough to have opinions about tag brands and stitch counts, you're exactly who this is for. If you're just getting started, the archive is a good place to learn what you're looking at. Either way — built by someone who cares about this stuff the same way you do.
— Max, founder