This year’s volunteers are sure to look regal in their royal
blue festival shirts, complete with little white piping.
This year’s volunteers are sure to look regal in their royal blue festival shirts, complete with little white piping.
Giroy Garlic Festival Asscaition Members will wear the shirt for the duration of the garlic festival. Past festival shirts have come in many colors and styles, from striped to tri-color to Hawaiian. Regardless of what they have on them, they are always talked about.
“The number one question presidents get is ‘what do the shirts look like?'” said 2009 Gilroy Garlic Festival President Kirsten Carr.
People want to know whether or not it has a pocket, if it looks good on men and women – those sorts of things, she said.
Ed Struzik, the 2008 Festival President, has his shirts arranged by year in his closet. His favorite shirt was, of course, last year’s shirt, which he designed. It was a blue shirt that had the logo all across it.
“I really liked Kurt Chacon’s Hawaiian Shirt. I wasn’t a big fan of the all black shirt,” he said, referring to the 2005 polo shirt that was “very hot.”
