Team Zissou Uniform

By kinney 5 April 2026

So I’m back to working on the Team Zissou uniform after starting it alllllllll the way back in Covid. I got as far as cutting out all the fabric parts for the shirt but then not moving onto actually sewing it all together. Three day monk, three day monk!

After some battles getting the ancient sewing machine working I am now ready to start putting it together.

Intended look of the final shirt:

By kinney

Quentin Crisp

“All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have had what patience-players would call a discard pile. They operated on two levels with a slave class who worked, ate, slept, and died and a leisured class who reclined on one elbow and spoke. Naturally it is from this latter group that we learn what life at that time was like. It often makes charming reading but we can hardly take it to be the whole truth.”

Quentin Crisp

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face”

Quentin Crisp

“Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.”

Quentin Crisp

“There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.”

Hunter S Thompson

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

Team Zissou Uniform

By kinney