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Sublimation / digital printing
front / back / sleeves / collar
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✓ Add individual names or unlimited text
✓ Artwork placement changes
✓ Sleeve trim + accent colour changes
Minimum order quantity (if customised): 10 units
MATERIAL
Lightweight
Heavyweight
Rough
Super soft
Waterproof
Breathable
FEATURES
Made with breathable Prime CoolMesh® synthetic fabric.
- Australian Made®
- short set-in sleeves
- collar with three-button placket
- split detail at side
- true to size unisex style
- wrinkle resistant, drapes well
- side seamed, double needle hem
- active breathability
- moisture management technology
- UPF50 Sun protection
- fully sublimated design
WHY WE
MADE THIS
Pay your respects with this original, hand-drawn and historically reflective Lest We Forget Polo featuring the 3rd pattern Rising Sun Badge aligned with, and with permission from, the Australian Army. Designed on home turf, this memorial shirt is ethically and sustainably produced.
Eco-Friendly
This item is manufactured with yarns made from recycled PET bottles (approx 14-16 of them). It is printed with high-quality carcinogen-free pigment inks. No cancer-causing chemicals and undesirable surfactants.
Zero plastic
We pack your threads in recyclable acid-free tissue paper and use only plant-based home compostable mailers, at no extra cost. By sending your parcel with our delivery partner Australia Post, you’re supporting their carbon-offset projects that have positive environmental and social impacts. Since 2019, their carbon neutral parcel delivery initiative is equivalent of taking 75,000 cars off the road – or roughly 200,000 tonnes of emissions.
Controlled production
Sustainability involves finding a balance between supply and demand. Life Apparel works with local and international factories where only limited quantities are produced of each model to ensure exclusivity and avoid overproduction, like large fashion brands. Learn more →
Washing Instructions
Gentle machine wash
Do not bleach
Do not tumble dry
Touch up with cool iron
Do not dry clean
Further Care Information
- Do not use fabric softener
- Wash and iron inside out
- Wash separately with like colours
- Avoid rough surfaces
- Line dry out of direct sunlight
Shipping Info
Your order will be sent out within one business day from our warehouse on the Gold Coast, Queensland, in most cases. Shipping times begin when your parcel has left our warehouse.
Delivery times vary depending on your location and whether your items are in stock.
Parcel post within Australia starts from $6.45 and takes 6-12 business days (depending on your location).
Express post within Australia starts from $9.10 and takes 2-5 business days.
For more details on delivery information, please visit this page.
Return Policy
Items may be returned free of charge within 14 days of receipt. The original tags and labels must be attached, and the products must be unworn, unused, unwashed and undamaged (tried on is okay).
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ABOUT
THE DESIGN
The Lest We Forget polo shirt cites poet and writer, Laurence Binyon’s famous 19th Century poem, The Ode. The phrase ‘lest we forget’ translates to 'it should not be forgotten'.
Following World War I, this phrase became a common symbol of commemoration across Australia and New Zealand. Today, it remains widely used to pay respects on Anzac Day, Remembrance Day and beyond… To remember the service and sacrifice of those who have served in wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations.
Beneath a burnt orange sky, a soldier plays the Last Post, to signify the end of the day. His bugle song blankets a scene of soldiers who, in single file, rest their rifles. Birds take flight overhead, representing freedom and peace for the war’s end.
The Lest We Forget polo features the 3rd pattern Rising Sun Badge. Requiring formal permission for use from the Australian Army, this official badge typifies the spirit of the ANZAC and represents the camaraderie of Australian soldiers. Historically, this special insignia was worn by all soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Australian Imperial Force in both WWI and WWII.
The back of the Lest We Forget polo shirt features a large poppy in full bloom. The poppy remains the enduring symbol of remembrance of WWI. Scattered across France and Belgium’s otherwise barren battlefields, red poppies grew on Europe’s Western Front and inspired John McCrae’s poem, In Flanders Fields.
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.”
John McCrae
On the back of the shirt, an Australian Light Horse mounted by a soldier (commonly known as a Light Horseman). Australian Light Horses bravely assisted soldiers throughout wars. However it was during the Gallipoli Campaign that the Australian Imperial Force was made up of an infantry division and light horse brigade, used predominantly for defence.
The Light Horseman holds a flag post that carries both the Australian and New Zealand flags to honour all ANZACs.
Following World War I, this phrase became a common symbol of commemoration across Australia and New Zealand. Today, it remains widely used to pay respects on Anzac Day, Remembrance Day and beyond… To remember the service and sacrifice of those who have served in wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations.
Beneath a burnt orange sky, a soldier plays the Last Post, to signify the end of the day. His bugle song blankets a scene of soldiers who, in single file, rest their rifles. Birds take flight overhead, representing freedom and peace for the war’s end.
The Lest We Forget polo features the 3rd pattern Rising Sun Badge. Requiring formal permission for use from the Australian Army, this official badge typifies the spirit of the ANZAC and represents the camaraderie of Australian soldiers. Historically, this special insignia was worn by all soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Australian Imperial Force in both WWI and WWII.
The back of the Lest We Forget polo shirt features a large poppy in full bloom. The poppy remains the enduring symbol of remembrance of WWI. Scattered across France and Belgium’s otherwise barren battlefields, red poppies grew on Europe’s Western Front and inspired John McCrae’s poem, In Flanders Fields.
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.”
John McCrae
On the back of the shirt, an Australian Light Horse mounted by a soldier (commonly known as a Light Horseman). Australian Light Horses bravely assisted soldiers throughout wars. However it was during the Gallipoli Campaign that the Australian Imperial Force was made up of an infantry division and light horse brigade, used predominantly for defence.
The Light Horseman holds a flag post that carries both the Australian and New Zealand flags to honour all ANZACs.
