I love the quality of the shirts! Absolutely amazing! I get several compliments whenever I wear it. By far one of my favorite purchases!
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Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.9 / 5 from 147 reviews.
This is the one!
I got the most compliments from this one! Let’s go Anita!
I love the shirt! Ms. Teena was an amazing soul!
Great fit
Love it
Love the shirt definitely getting more
Amazing shirts and they fit perfect!
Shirt is definitely 🔥🔥🔥 Teena Marie was always fly!! Shirt comfy indeed!! 💯👍🏿💪🏿😎
Nice tee, good quality
Thank you
Great shirts
Great product, received as expected… I will be ordering more.
I needed an XL not a 2 XL
Store owner replied: Alan….you ordered a 2XL, but we’re happy to exchange it for you.
Amazing shirt and great quality. Got it for my wife and she loves it! Thank you!
Fast service! Great Quality!
Fast service! Great Quality!
Fast service! Great Quality!
Love it
For it to be a Large, it seemed to be more like a medium. Other than that, i love it.
Live the shirt 🙌🏽
Excellent quality shirt!! Wil definitely purchase again in the future.
my wife loved her Anita Baker and shot a t-shirts. The quality is exceptional! The colors are brilliant and vibrant! The compliments just keep coming! Great product great service and great company!
I love the shirt and I wear it every day. I am going to have to get another one.
love the quality of the tee as well as the print is solid…hopefully expand the catalog with other RnB queens like Aaliyah Left Eye, Jody Watley
Love the fit and feel of this shirt. Had 3 people ask me where I got it from on the first day of wear. I will definitely be back for more.
Great product. Great fit
Love it
Excellent quality
Great shirts
Well made. Looking forward to ordering again. Oh, great customer service.
Great quality and love the design.
As expected..fit good look good ..2 icons Janet & Teena
I got plenty of compliments. I really like your product
Perfect quality
Love the shirt!!!
As soon as I get a chance I'll be grabbing more of your products.
Great shirt really loving it
Love the artwork and the quality
I am pleased with my purchase. The item came as described.
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OUR STORY
Born Defiant . Built with Purpose .
There's a feeling that doesn't have a word in English — that particular feeling of a people fully in love with themselves. You felt it in the weight of a Malcolm X hat, in HBCU hoodies and Afrocentric patterns, in the bright colors that announced your presence before you ever opened your mouth. Blackness wasn't just something you were. It was something you celebrated. If you grew up Black in America in the 1990s, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
That feeling raised me. And then it got quiet. The Africa medallions disappeared. The Black fist picks vanished. I couldn't let it go.
So I started Smith Carlos from my home with a small SBA loan and zero industry experience. What I had instead was memory. And memory, it turns out, is its own kind of capital.
The brand is named in honor of Tommie Smith and John Carlos — the men who raised their fists from an Olympic podium in 1968 and told the world exactly where they stood. And Peter Norman, the white Australian sprinter who stood beside them in solidarity and paid for it with his career. (Google him.) Their lesson has never stopped being relevant: every time and every place is the right time and place to take a stand.
We make clothes that carry history — activists, athletes, artists, cultural proverbs, and even the pop culture figures who weren't Black but were claimed by Black audiences with the full force of love. Smith Carlos is for everyone who wants to honor this culture and wear their values where the world can see them. Because in America, simply existing as a Black person — fully, joyfully, unapologetically — has always been a radical act. And those who choose to stand in solidarity are equally defiant.
LOOK CLOSELY — Every Element Means Something
The Logo
The Concrete Crown and the Roses. Concrete doesn't grow flowers. And yet here we are — in boardrooms, in legislatures, on world stages, at the highest peaks of human achievement. We are the roses that found the cracks and climbed through anyway. The crown doesn't represent royalty granted. It represents royalty claimed.
The Raised Fist and the Flame. One fist. One fire. A through-line that runs from Benjamin Banneker to the Tuskegee Airmen, from the Harlem Renaissance to the dining room tables where soul food became the unofficial cuisine of a nation that borrowed everything and credited nothing. We have been the torch. Not the followers of the light — the source of it. We remain the foundation of American culture, studied and sampled and celebrated everywhere except in the place it came from.
The Wings. Two birds. Two flags. One set of wings — the American flag on the left, the Pan-African colors on the right, coming together at the center. Because this has always been our paradox and our power: we have fought in every war this country has ever called. We have bled into foreign soil for a promise that waited for us back home behind locked doors and raised nightsticks. We kept showing up anyway. We kept fighting — for America abroad, and for our own humanity at home. These wings don't just represent flight. They represent the impossible, exhausting, magnificent act of carrying two worlds at once and still rising.
Smith Carlos isn't just a clothing brand.
It's a reminder. A reclamation. A raised fist on a podium, dressed up and ready to walk out the door with you.
Put it on. Make your statement. We'll see you out there.