Public Asked To Submit Patriotic Designs For Pawleys Island 4th Of July Parade T-shirt

Public asked to submit patriotic designs for Pawleys Island 4th of July Parade T-shirt

Organizers of the 2025 Pawleys Island 4th of July Parade are trying something new this year. They are holding a contest, asking the public to submit designs for the official parade T-shirt!

Anyone interested can draw out his or her design and submit it to the Town of Pawleys Island by the deadline, Friday, April 25. This year’s shirt will be red.

The winning T-shirt design will be chosen to represent the 59^th annual Pawleys Island 4^th of July Parade.

Img 1893-onlypawleys — These are the Pawleys Island 4th of July Parade T-shirt designs for the previous two years. This year, organizers are holding a contest for the best design. This year’s T-shirt will be red. (Photo by Clayton Stairs/Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce)

Pawleys Island Town Administrator Daniel Newquist said the design needs to be submitted to the town’s email address in PDF or JPEG format. He said the event committee has already received a few entries, but members are interested in receiving even more to choose from for the official shirt design.

“We will definitely have a winning design that will be featured on this year’s T-shirt,” Newquist said. “We urge anyone who would like to submit a design to do so.”

Scott Townes, a member of the event committee that will choose the winning design, said this is the first year the town has asked the public to submit creative ideas for the T-shirt. He said the design needs to be “patriotic with a Pawleys’ flare.”

“We hope it will spark even more interest in the parade and T-shirts sales,” he said. “The parade has become an annual family tradition for all the 4^th of July visitors and inlanders themselves through the years, and it seems to get bigger every year.”

He said the first July 4^th parade on Pawleys Island was organized in 1966 by a resident named Nancy Bonderant, who was affectionately known as Miss B.

Red shirt cropped-onlypawleys — This was the design in 2022. (Photo by Daniel Newquist/Pawleys Island)

Criteria for entries:

All entries must be sent via email to info@townofpi.com no later than Friday, April 25, 2025.
All entries must be in PDF or JPEG format.
The Pawleys Island Events Committee will vote on a winner, and the winner will be notified on May 10 and recognized at the Town of Pawleys Island Memorial Day Summer Kickoff on May 25.

Prize Package awarded to the winner:

Two-night stay at the Sea View Inn
Dinner for two at Chive Blossom

“We look forward to receiving all the design concepts!” Newquist said.

For more information, call Pawleys Island Town Hall at 843-237-1698 or email chigdon@townofpi.com.

By Clayton Stairs / tourism manager for the Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce