To celebrate the release of their new publication Opening Ceremony Book by Rizzoli, Opening Ceremony has released an OCTV short video that delivers a heady dose of cuteness. Featuring a cast of pint-sized actors, the video shows seminal moments in the brands genesis such as the meeting of the two founders Carol Lim and Humberto Leon at UC Berkeley and their work with director Spike Jonze. If you don’t know the story of Opening Ceremony this video will offer an adequate primer and put a smile on your face.
I know I only deal with cotton news mostly but I had to post this trailer. Like many brands that have a history in skateboarding, there’s also a great history in tee design. A lot of up and coming skate teams had awesome designs not only on their boards but also on their t-shirts. Like Dogtown Z boys it’s always great to see what the basis or history was behind the designs. The Bones Brigade pushed the envelope and did a lot for the skate boarding business. Knowledge is King, so check out the trailer and go see the documentary.
The Bones Brigade isn’t a death metal band, an extreme diet club or historic dominoes association—the Bones Brigade was a talented gang of teenage outcasts. Unmotivated by fame or popularity, they completely dedicated their lives to a disrespected art form. For most of the 1980s, this misfit crew headed by a 1970s ex-skateboard champion blasted the industry with a mixture of art and raw talent becoming the most popular skateboarding team in history. The core unit of the Bones Brigade built an empire that covered the world. They dominated contests, made hundreds of thousands of dollars, created the modern skateboard video, reinvented endemic advertising, pushed skate progression into a new era, and set the stage for a totally new form of skating called street style. There’s nothing comparable in today’s skateboarding.
Originally shown at the Sundance Film Festival, Bones Brigade: An Autobiography is now currently screening at various stops across North America.
According to some the beginning of the T-shirt is credited to the navy. The US Navy that is, while other historians say it was The “swabs” in the British Royal Navy who wore them under their uniforms in World War I, some even suggest it was the French Army. American soldiers liked the comfortable lightweight cotton undershirt compared to the wool uniforms American soldiers wore and the rest is history.
The statement tee has always been around seems like, and in fact they’re making a huge comeback this fall. Everyone’s got one, but do you know how long it’s been since the first words were printed out on a shirt? They were replaced by iconic logos for a while before the words came back in vogue, as in ”Frankie Says Relax”.
A T-shirt (T shirt or tee) is a style of shirt. A T-shirt is buttonless and collarless, usually with short sleeves and frequently a round neck line.
T-shirts are typically made of cotton fibers (sometimes others), knitted together in a jersey stitch that gives a T-shirt its distinctive soft texture. T-shirts can be decorated with text and/or pictures, and they are often used to advertise (see human billboard), promoting products, companies, films and websites.
T-shirt fashions include many styles for both men and women, and for all age groups, including baby, youth, teen, adult and elderly sizes.
The T-shirt evolved from undergarments used in the 19th century, through cutting the one-piece “union suit” underwear into separate top and bottom garments, with the top long enough to tuck under the waistband of the bottoms. T-shirts, with and without buttons, were adopted by miners and stevedores during the late 19th century as a convenient covering for hot environments.
T-shirts, as a slip-on garment without buttons, originally became popular in the United States when they were issued by the U.S. Navy during or following the Spanish American War. These were a crew-necked, short-sleeved, white cotton undershirt to be worn under a uniform. It became common for sailors and Marines in work parties, the early submarines, and tropical climates to remove their uniform “jacket”, wearing (and soiling) only the undershirt.
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