Uhm --- that's no damage. That's part of the design. 
When I returned to my room at the InterCity on Wednesday night, I took a good, hard look at my T-shirt, and discovered that splattered printing. I thought that perhaps the fabricators had issues with the silk-screening process - which was plausible if they had been made by hand in a garage somewhere, like a lot of tourist T-shirts were - but couldn't square that with the crisp, sharp detail of the actual scene depicted beneath it.
When I got a chance to step into the Dealers' Den and visit the EF merchandise table, I brought my shirt with me, and asked if I could get it replaced. I was told that there was nothing wrong with it, that it was intentional. I had trouble believing this...until I looked, really
looked, at the shirts arrayed across the table. They were all showing that same flawed lettering,
precisely duplicated on each and every one, in perfect registry. This wasn't a flaw in a silkscreen, this was
engineered to look like that.
I'm still not quite sure why; but I do recall seeing "baggies"-style swimming trunks, white with a blue design in a hawaiian motif, done this way some years ago. Also it suggests the labels on sacks of hawaiian sugar and coffee.
