Mandolin Brothers’ t-shirts provide their wearers instant prestige and credibility, everywhere they go, as a connoisseur of fine new and vintage guitars, banjos and mandolins. We know this because people who wear them in faraway States and foreign countries tell us that when they come across players of fretted instruments from these exotic places (like Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) or Mendocino, musicians gather around them and ask them questions like “Have you been to Mandolin Brothers?” “What’s it like?”