Adoptee-founded

These shirts exist because I needed one.

I'm a Vietnamese adoptee — and every design here was made by or for someone who carries more than one story.

The whole truth

You carry more than one story.

Adoptive Threads
Wear your story.
Shop by heritage

Your roots, your journey, your tale

One design for wherever your story began.

On belonging

Too foreign for here. Too adopted for there. So we built somewhere for us.

Some feelings are hard to explain. Sometimes a design says what we've been carrying all along.

— the Adoptive Threads community
#WearYourStory

These are our people.

Real community members, wearing their story. Tag #WearYourStory to be featured.

Operation Babylift
Operation Babylift
Reconnecting after 50 years
The Color Shift Podcast
The Color Shift Podcast
Korean Transracial Adoptee
My Mama
My Mama
From Vietnam to Wyoming
Proud Adoptee
Proud Adoptee
Adopted. Resilient. Proud.
My blood type is Phở
My blood type is Phở
Powered by phở since birth. 🍜
Both, not either

The adoptee experience holds celebration and loss at the same time — and neither cancels the other. These designs make room for all of it. You don't have to choose.

These are our people.

Join the adoptees, families, and friends already wearing their story. New drops and country spotlights, no spam.