The Okzhetpes mountain art T-shirt brings Kazakhstan’s lake-country landscape and currency history into everyday wear. An adapted archival specimen at the left chest pairs with an original artistic interpretation across the back, printed on a relaxed-fit Comfort Colors 1717 cotton tee.
Why you'll love it
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A landscape with a story: Inspired by Kazakhstan’s 1993 ten-tenge note, the design connects Mount Okzhetpes, Burabay, and scholar Shoqan Walikhanov.
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Two distinct prints: A small chest specimen preserves the portrait and denomination, while the large back artwork opens onto stone, pines, blue-green water, and shoreline ornament.
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Substantial everyday comfort: Garment-dyed, 6.1 oz, 100% ring-spun cotton with a relaxed unisex fit.
Choose your shirt: Black, White, Ivory, Pepper, Chambray, or Bay, in sizes S–4XL. Check the size chart for your preferred fit and the selectors for available combinations.
The story behind Okzhetpes
Some countries put their rulers on money. Kazakhstan put a man who studied the world on one side, and a place worth studying on the other.
The 1993 ten-tenge note belongs to Kazakhstan’s first national-currency series after independence. Its portrait is Shoqan Walikhanov—also rendered Chokan Valikhanov—a nineteenth-century scholar, historian, and ethnographer. Turn the note over and there is Mount Okzhetpes, rising in the lake country of Burabay. A human life on the face; a much older presence on the reverse. A considerable amount of country to fold into a pocket.
Our chest specimen keeps the portrait and denomination close. Across the back, the landscape has escaped its small paper enclosure: stone above the pines, blue-green water below, a long band of ornament following the shore. The greens come from the banknote; the invitation to linger belongs to the place.
This is what makes old currency such an agreeable rabbit hole. You arrive looking at a number. Before long, you are looking up a scholar, a mountain, and a lake you had never intended to visit.
SPECIMEN & ISSUE — A Breach in Taste
Real currencies, encountered twice: an adapted archival specimen at the left chest and an original artistic interpretation across the back.
THE SHIRT
Comfort Colors 1717 garment-dyed unisex tee with a relaxed fit and substantial 6.1 oz, 100% ring-spun cotton fabric. Front chest print and large back print. Available in Black, White, Ivory, Pepper, Chambray, Bay, in sizes S–4XL. Check the size chart for your preferred fit.
CARE
Machine wash cold. Do not bleach. Tumble dry low. Use low heat if ironing; avoid ironing directly over the print. Do not dry clean.
This original artwork was developed by A Breach in Taste using AI-assisted image generation, human creative direction, and human editing.
A Breach in Taste — Ideas, in Shirt Form.
Choose your color and size above and carry a little lake-country curiosity into your day.
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