Philly Pretzel Snake Crew Sweatshirt 100% Cotton

Description Honoring the former Pretzel Shop that now houses our first ready-to-wear store, we designed a 20oz loopback French Terry sweatshirt with a printed "Pretzel Snake" on it. That snake, of course, harkens back to Benjamin Franklin's famous woodcut printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette. It warned of the need for the colonies to join in order to fight off the French who had been attacking aggressively. Franklin wrote: “They (the French) presume that they may with Impunity violate the most solemn Treaties subsisting between the two Crowns, kill, seize and imprison our Traders, and confiscate their Effects at Pleasure (as they have done for several Years past) murder and scalp our Farmers, with their Wives and Children, and take an easy Possession of such Parts of the British Territory as they find most convenient for them,” Franklin concluded, warning that the British presence in North America was at stake.As the Constitution Center notes - Accompanying the article was th