The shirt reads: “LEGENDS DON’T ASK PERMISSION.”
A small gold crown sits above three lines of plain black capitals, and there is nothing else on the shirt.
It is a slogan that means one thing at eighteen and something rather different at forty. The crown is the only decoration and it is deliberately small.
For the gym, for anyone starting something without waiting to be told it is allowed, and for the friend who has never once asked.
