If you follow The Shirt on Instagram (@theshirtnd), you got a peek yesterday at the designs that might have been—when the Irish hit their hot streak in 2012, designers for The Shirt 2013 began thinking of what they would do to celebrate a potential championship season in the midst of their work for the next year’s Shirt. 

2014 will mark the third consecutive year that The Shirt Project has worked with Alta Gracia to produce the single highest-selling item of collegiate apparel in the nation. Here’s how this three-year stretch came about...

John Hosinski ’96, a history graduate, former resident of Grace Hall and uncle to a current member of The Shirt Project Executive Committee, wrote to us about his experience with some of the first Shirts ever made.