The shirt reads: “THIS CALLS FOR TINY SOCKS & A SUBSTITUTE.”
Between the lines, a pair of tiny striped baby socks hangs on a line with a pencil, a stick of chalk and small stars scattered around them.
It is a pregnancy announcement written for a staffroom. The tiny socks say the obvious thing; the substitute says the rest of it. For teachers announcing to a class, a department or a family, in a way that gets the news across and a laugh at the same time.
