Tiger Tank Top

A tiger tank top hands the whole torso to the print and leaves the arms free, which suits designs built around one large face. In this collection that face might be a calm orange tiger with green eyes, a snarling black tiger with red eyes or a roaring white tiger with its fangs bared, while the designs without a face carry camouflage or bold black stripes on orange or pink instead.

Three faces on a tiger tank top

The Tiger Face Tank Top is the calmest of the portraits. A photographic tiger head fills the front from neckline to hem, with orange fur, white cheeks, a pink nose and pale green eyes looking straight out of a black background. Every whisker and stripe is visible, and the expression is watchful rather than fierce.

The Black Tiger Tank Top turns the mood around. Here the tiger is drawn in black, charcoal and gray, mouth wide open in a snarl that shows its fangs, with glowing red eyes and a red open mouth as the only color. Thin white cracks and shards spread out around the head, as if the picture had broken through a pane of glass.

The white tiger tank top shows a roaring tiger in black, white and silver gray, its jaws open wide and its eyes a yellowish green. The stripes run in thick black bands across the forehead and down the cheeks, and the white fur makes the whole print lighter in tone than the black tiger design.

All three use the same sleeveless crew-neck cut with wide shoulders, closer to a sleeveless tee than to a classic narrow-strapped tank, which gives the print a broad, unbroken surface across the chest.

Patterns in place of portraits

Some designs swap the face for an all-over pattern, among them a close-up of orange fur crossed by black stripes. The Tiger Camo Tank Top has a classic tank shape, with a scoop neck, narrower straps and a rounded hem, printed in camouflage of olive, khaki, dark green and near black. The patches are drawn out in ragged horizontal streaks rather than round blotches, which gives the print a sense of movement from side to side.

The Women Pink Tiger Print Tank Top brings in strong color. Long, branching black stripes run from top to bottom over a hot pink ground, and thin black straps and black binding around the neckline frame them. It is cut as a women's tank, with a body that widens slightly toward a gently curved hem, and its color is listed as Pink Tiger Stripes.

Sizes and cuts

Most of the designs are cut as men's tank tops, with the pink stripe design cut for women. Sizes run from S up to 5XL on most styles, and the color options go by the name of each design, such as Tiger Face, Tiger Camo, Wild Tiger or Tiger Roaring, so on most product pages the option describes the print itself. The tank top section of our apparel size chart matches each size to a range of height and weight, which is a quick way to find a starting point.

Beach, sleep and the rest of the set

A tank top sits at the warm-weather end of a tiger wardrobe, and its neighbors share the theme. Our tiger bikini collection carries two-piece swimsuits in blue, pink and yellow tiger prints, including a tiger stripe sling style. For nights, our tiger pajamas range includes printed sets for men and women, cami pajama sets and tiger print pajama pants. When sleeves are wanted, a tiger t-shirt brings the same kind of print to a classic tee, with designs from white tigers under starry skies to tiger heads picked out in glitter. All of them belong to our full tiger clothes collection, along with hoodies, jackets, caps and belts.

The tigers behind the prints

Most of the faces on these tank tops are close to life, and the differences between them follow the animal itself. Orange with black stripes is the coloring of almost every wild tiger, from the Bengal tiger of India to the Amur tiger of the Russian Far East. A white tiger owes its pale coat to a rare recessive gene found in Bengal tigers, one that removes the orange but not the black, which is why the white tiger design still shows such strong black bands. Each tiger's stripes are unique to it, much like a human fingerprint.

The black tiger and the white tiger both appear in our list of the most beautiful tigers in the world, which ranks five tigers, among them the golden tiger and the blue-gray Maltese tiger, and it makes a good companion to the two-tone designs here.

What the tiger has stood for

Across Asia, the tiger has long carried a reputation for courage, strength and protection. In the Chinese zodiac, the Year of the Tiger comes around every twelve years, and people born in it are said to be brave and confident. A roaring face on the chest puts that reputation front and center, and the calmer portraits carry it more quietly.

Questions about these tank tops

Is there a women's design?

Yes. The Women Pink Tiger Print Tank Top is cut for women, with thin black straps, in hot pink with black stripes.

What is the difference between the cuts?

The portrait designs, such as the Tiger Face Tank Top and the Black Tiger Tank Top, have a sleeveless crew-neck cut with wide shoulders. The Tiger Camo Tank Top has a scoop neck and narrower straps, and the women's pink design has thin straps.

Which designs show a white tiger?

The white tiger tank top shows a roaring white tiger in black, white and gray, and another two-tone design in the collection pairs a black-and-white tiger face with bright turquoise eyes.