Friends Group Vacation Shirts

Sure, you could write the date of your trip and the words "friends vacation" on a shirt and call it a day. But you're way more creative and stylish than that. So here are some cool ways to make your shirts really make a statement:

• Be a team. Sometimes, trying to herd your friend group to the breakfast bar or out for a tour feels like going nine innings with the World Series on the line. So why not show everyone you're a team dedicated to winning on vacation? With the TeamShirts Names and Numbers feature, everyone can have their name and number put on the back of their shirt — just like a pro athlete.
• Show off your great taste in vacations. Put a map of your destinations on your shirts or the names of the places you're heading to. You can even add graphics — like a mountain if you're heading to Colorado — to make sure everyone knows you can plan an awesome trip.
• Celebrate your destination. Consider what's unique and cool about where you're headed. You can add pictures of your destination, maybe in a collage stylized to look like postcards. Or, you can share fun facts about your destination. For example, if you and your friends are heading to the Great Barrier Reef, consider a shirt that says, "The Great Barrier Reef is 2,300km long — and we're going to check out every km on our vacation."
• Share your names. Why not put a list of your friends' names on all your shirts? Or, you can have each shirt printed with each person's name, but in the same style. For example, if you all love Friends, have each person's name printed in the style of the show's opening credits.
• Show off your humor. On your Friend-cation, why not add jokes to your custom t-shirts? Puns like "Beach hair, don't care" or "It's wine o'clock somewhere. And, anyway, I'm on vacation" are also fun.

Keep in mind that you can go as matchy or as non-matchy as you like. Depending on everyone's personalities, you might all want the exact same shirts. Or maybe you all want the same style and color of shirts but with completely different sayings and graphics. Just like with your vacation, you get to make the rules!

Part of the job of traveling together is that you're all so different. There's the organizer and the cheerleader. Maybe you have a creative type on your trip — someone who can track down the best hole-in-the-wall restaurant that all the other foodies have missed. Or maybe there's a designated driver or responsible one in your group (the one who convinces you that skydiving after taking part in a Texas chili eating contest is a bad idea. We all need friends like that).

Why give everyone the same shirt? You can create customized shirts for everyone. Here's how:

• Give each other roles. Is one of you She Who is Responsible for Drinks? Or maybe one of you is Surf King? Give yourselves fun roles for your trip and wear them with pride.
• Use different shirts with some of the same elements. So, each of you has a different style. No problem. You can create the same graphic and put it on different styles of shirts. Mark, who only wears black, can wear a black t-shirt, and Jimmy, who lives in hoodies, can have the same design on a hoodie.
• Capture your personalities with different quotes. Have each of you choose a quote or saying that means something to you. Then, have each person's shirt printed with "their" quote. Use the same style of font and the same graphic to show that you're all part of the same team.
• Give each of you an avatar or character. Going on a family surfing trip, for example? Everyone can have a customized family shirt with a baby dolphin, papa dolphin, angsty teen dolphin, and mama dolphin.