Lead Belly in Washington D.C. Youth T-Shirt - Lightweight Vintage Children & Toddlers 

This Bluescentric Brand children and toddler's authentic Lead Belly t-shirt is available in premium lightweight 4.2oz Toddler sizes T2-T5 and Youth Small through XL. Solid colors are 100% airlume combed and ringspun cotton. Athletic Heather is 90% cotton.  

Official Lead Belly! Every sale directly benefits Lead Belly's estate. 

The design says "Lead Belly" with light distress around the lettering. This extraordinary photo of Lead Belly was taken by William Gottlieb at a press club gathering in Washington D.C. in 1938.

It's notable that Lead Belly was in Washington at all... The previous June 1937, Lead Belly had traveled to the nation's capitol city to record for Alan Lomax, only to immediately experience horrifying firsthand Jim Crow racism.

Within hours, the guitarist had penned the famous song "Bourgeois Blues" -- a damning number about the disturbing treatment of people with black skin in Washington D.C.

But Lead Belly couldn't be held down by hate -- he returned to the town at least two more times in the following years, recording again with Lomax and acquainting himself with other rising artists of the time, such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Josh White.


Toddler Size Guide
2T Child Weight: 30-33 lbs or 13.5-15 kgs / Child Height: 32-35 in or 81-89 cm
3T Child Weight: 33-36 lbs or 15-16.5 kgs / Child Height: 35-38 in or 89-97 cm
4T Child Weight: 36-40 lbs or 16.5-18.15 kgs / Child Height: 38-40 in or 97-101.5 cm
5T Child Weight: 40-45 lbs or 18.15-20.5 kgs / Child Height: 40-43 in or 101.5-109.25 cm

Children Size Guide 
YS Youth Small fits sizes 6-8
YM Youth Medium fits sizes 10-12
YL Youth Large fits sizes 14-16
YXL Youth XL fits sizes 18-20