The Inter version is the one a club supporter wants: narrow blue and black stripes, which is a more restrained design than the other Milan shirt and one that takes a printed name well.

The Argentina version is the safer and more widely recognised gift. Sky blue and white stripes are identifiable everywhere, and a national shirt is not affected by a transfer.

Italian shirts sit close: narrower shoulder, shaped through the body. If you are used to an English shirt and order your usual size here, it will feel different.

Measure the chest rather than trusting a letter, and go up if you are between sizes. If it is going over anything at all, go up once more. An Italian shirt that is slightly too big is wearable; one that is slightly too small is not.

On a striped shirt, check that the name set sits square to the shirt rather than following the stripes. A print aligned to the bars is the thing that looks wrong in a year.

Then: inside out, cold, no tumble dryer, never iron directly on the print. That is what keeps a name set intact.