"My Shins Remember" Heavyweight Unisex Crewneck T-shirt

The line under the board is drawn by hand in fat graffiti capitals that lean and jostle, no two letters quite the same height. MY SHINS is cut larger than REMEMBER, the I in SHINS keeps a round dot like a lowercase letter, and the sentence ends on a blunt full stop. Each letter is filled navy and trails a red drop shadow down and to the left, so the words look slightly knocked off their line. On the Heavyweight Unisex Crewneck T-shirt that slant matters, because the skateboard above it runs on the same steep diagonal, nose up at the left and tail planted at the right.

The board itself has been ridden hard. Its navy grip top carries a fine stipple grain, four bolt rings near the middle and pale scratch streaks further down, and the red rail has chipped away in places to show cream underneath. Both wheels are red with cream highlights and hatch lines like an old engraving, and the trucks are shaded in navy and cream. A few navy droplets flick off the tail over a long ragged brush stroke of shadow, the split second before the board comes back at whoever was standing on it. Anyone who has learned a kickflip the slow way will get the joke, and it makes an easy gift for a skater who still has the bruises.