The Toboggan was one of PLAY’s best-selling tees. Artwork by Chris Hargrave. In PLAY’s last year we released an updated version of the design in 6 colors.
Craig Reynolds was PLAY’s top bmx racer and this was one of his two pro-model tees. In case you hadn’t figured it out already, his racing number was 44. This design was printed on front and back of the tee. Artwork by Steve Buddendeck. His other tee was the lipstick model.
This is a drawing that Steve Crandall did one day when he was visiting the PLAY house in Winston-Salem in 1997. It portrays my two cats, Binky and Scamper, the best cats in the whole world. Crandall captioned it “Binky and Scamper are nice cats”. I got Binky and Scamper wh
This was one of 2B’s very first tee shirt designs and one of the funniest I think. Steve Buddendeck designed this one. It was a big phat gold chain with a 2B medallion on the end. Steve and I listened to a lot of hip-hop in those days. Many thanks to Heath Balderston for sending
Thanks to Mike FLood for letting me use this pic of him wearing his Perry Mervar pro model tee shirt from 2B Homecooked. Perry rode for 2B for a while and is an awesome guy.
This was one of the first 2B designs. (1990?) It features artwork I did based on a photo of Eric Wever doing a fast plant. Soul Kitchen was the name of the 2B skatepark contest series, which were more about having fun riding with your friends than competing. Hence the tagline on the b
Tossed Salad was a jumping contest series put on by 2B and we designed this shirt to promote it. Not sure what year it came out, 92? It features a photo of Mike Forney jumping at Landsdowne skatepark. Many thanks to Mike Laird for sending this photo of his very own Tossed Salad tee. &
Vaun Stout was a Play team rider and had his own pro model tee. On the front was a smiley face that said “Nice Guy Vaun Stout”. The artwork on the back of the shirt (shown above) was done by Chris Hargrave and it shows Vaun doing one of his signature sketchy landings where
I think Steve Buddendeck came up with this artwork. It may have been secretly inspired by Dan Duckworth himself (the original owner of Dan’s Competition and a fantastic moustache) just to see if he would stock it in his shop. This shirt was released around 1996.
The PLAY Clothes Goober tee shirt was inspired by those cheesy 70’s skateboarding and bmx stickers. I don’t know where we came up with the name goober, he just kinda looked like one. 1996