Fits & Silhouettes
Longline Tee
A longline tee runs extra body length past the hip, often with a curved hem, for a streetwear silhouette that pulls front print placement lower than usual.
Streetwear popularized the longline tee for a reason: extra body length, usually 2-4 inches past a standard tee, with a hem that's often curved or dropped lower at the sides than the front and back — a detail called a curved hem or high-low hem depending on how pronounced the drop is.
The style comes straight out of that scene: Champion and independent streetwear labels popularized the elongated block, and it's now a staple ask from hip-hop and skate-adjacent merch clients. We've had to talk buyers out of centering a design the way they would on a standard crew neck — on this cut, dead-center vertical placement reads too high and leaves the lower third of the shirt looking bare.
Spec front prints on a longline tee 1-2 inches lower than a standard placement guide calls for, and consider a smaller design scaled to sit higher on the chest if the client wants it visible above a jacket or hoodie — the extra body length means a standard 12-inch-wide chest print looks proportionally smaller on the longer canvas. Curved-hem construction can also affect where side seams sit, so keep prints off the very bottom edge where the hem curve begins.
The mistake is using a standard tee's placement guide unmodified on this style, which is how a logo meant to anchor mid-chest ends up sitting awkwardly high on a body that's several inches longer than the mockup assumed.