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Marco Island Florida Vintage Retro Unisex Cotton Jersey Tank Top - Black Logo

Marco Island Florida Vintage Retro Unisex Cotton Jersey Tank Top - Black Logo

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The Marco Island tank, for the town that rises from a thousand years of shells. Lightweight Airlume cotton jersey with the Marco Island vintage retro logo on the chest in black, for the hottest months of the year.

The tank is the summer Marco Island piece: light enough for the trail, the boat and the porch, cut in a retail unisex fit that runs true to size. Order it before the warm weather does the deciding for you.

A retail-fit unisex tank in lightweight Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton. Side seams and self-fabric binding help it hold its shape, the label tears away, and it runs true to size for adults. Solids are 100% cotton; select heather and prism shades may include cotton–poly or cotton–poly–rayon blends.

The Calusa built shell mounds here for centuries, Indian Hill among them at fifty-one feet, and in 1896 the Smithsonian’s Pepper-Hearst Expedition under Frank Hamilton Cushing pulled the six-inch carved-wood Key Marco Cat from the muck, one of the finest Pre-Columbian finds in North America. William Collier founded the village of Marco in 1870.

Clam and oyster canneries ran at Caxambas Pass from 1903 to 1947, the first bridge came in 1938, and Deltona opened the modern island in 1965. The largest of the Ten Thousand Islands, it has a six-mile crescent of sugar-white sand, among the widest beaches in Florida and some of the best shelling. That shell-strewn shore is the mark on this piece.


QUICK FACTS — MARCO ISLAND FL COTTON JERSEY TANK

Town: Marco Island, Florida

Founded: Village 1870; city 1997

Known for: The Key Marco Cat (1896); the largest of the Ten Thousand Islands; a six-mile sugar-sand crescent beach

Art: Marco Island vintage retro logo, black (printed)

Blank: Unisex jersey tank, retail fit, side-seamed, self-fabric binding

Fabric: Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton; solids 100% cotton, heather/prism shades blended

Label: Tear-away

Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

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Every item is made to order, so please check the size chart on this page before you buy. Women's fitted tees run small; size up for a looser fit. Caps are one size with an adjustable strap.

How are items made and when will they arrive?

We make each item to order using premium blanks, embroidery and soft-hand prints. Production takes 2-5 business days (weekends and holidays excluded), then 4-10 days in transit via USPS, UPS or FedEx to U.S. addresses; most orders arrive within 6-15 business days. You'll get a tracking link the moment it ships. Any current shipping offer is shown in the bar at the top of every page and applies automatically at checkout, no code needed.

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Apparel: wash cold, inside out, with like colors; no bleach; tumble dry low or hang dry. Embroidered pieces: iron inside out to protect the stitching. Caps: spot clean. Printed glasses and water bottles: hand wash only, no dishwasher, so the artwork lasts. Mugs and engraved glasses are dishwasher safe. Any item-specific care notes are in the description above.

Who makes this?

Merlin Classics is a small Connecticut brand making original retro designs for the towns people love. Every piece is printed, embroidered or engraved to order in the USA, and the business supports hunger relief in the communities our collections celebrate.

That mix is the modern island: ancient shell mounds under quiet streets, a Calusa cat in the museum, a six-mile beach, and a working channel out to the wild Ten Thousand Islands. The development came with a cost the island still reckons with — the dredged mangroves, the lost wetland — but it also kept Marco’s deep history visible, in the preserves at Otter Mound and Caxambas and the museum that holds the Cat. Few beach towns can show you a thousand years and a planned grid in the same afternoon.

Our Marco Island logo carries the Florida alligator over “Florida Territory · Est. 1845,” the year Florida became a state — the shared emblem of every Merlin Classics Florida town. Printed in clean retro black-and-white that reads like an old crate label, the alligator stands for Florida as a whole; what makes this one Marco Island is everything behind it — the Calusa shell mounds and Indian Hill, the six-mile sugar-sand beach, the canal-laced planned island, and the Ten Thousand Islands at its back door.

Why People Visit Marco Island

Marco Island rewards visitors who want wide white sand, warm shallow water, and shells underfoot, with a rare depth of history close by. Add the boat trips into the Ten Thousand Islands and the year-round Gulf sun, and the case makes itself.

Marco Island Florida Merlin Classics retro vintage logo featuring the Florida alligator over Florida Territory Est. 1845