Humboldt Sweatshirt

Joan wanted a sweatshirt from Humboldt for Christmas, so I went to the little store in the Main building where sweatshirts are sold. Humboldt does not, as far as I can tell, have any school colors. The sweatshirts come in blue, red, maroon and possibly some other color (gray?). Most of the versions have a stripe with a small icon of the university seal: a profile of the brothers Humboldt. I was about to take one of these when I found a blue version that had the seal full size, much like the marvelous University of Chicago sweatshirt that this one is to replace, where the University phoenix fills the whole front.

What is curious is that the sweatshirt is made by a standard American firm. That seems somehow disappointing, as if I expected a true German product stitched to exacting standards by Gastarbeiter from Poland or Turkey. Probably this sweatshirt, like its US counterparts, comes from China or some country nearby.