"My Shins Remember" Unisex Longsleeve T-shirt

Navy does most of the work here and red only turns up where things get hit: the wheels, the rail of the deck, and the drop shadow that trails off the lettering to the lower left. The skateboard is drawn mid-flip on a steep diagonal, nose high on the left and tail driven into the ground on the right, with the grip side facing you in flat dark navy speckled with fine stipple grain. Four small bolt rings mark where the front truck is fixed, and pale scratch streaks run down toward the tail. Along the edge the red paint has chipped away in cream patches, which is the kind of wear a board only gets from being used badly and often. The wheels and trucks are shaded with engraving-style hatch lines, a few navy droplets flick off at the point of impact, and a long ragged brush stroke stands in for the shadow underneath.

Under that stroke, one line of chunky hand-drawn capitals reads My Shins Remember, full stop included, with the letters leaning and slightly uneven and the i in Shins dotted like a lowercase letter. On a longsleeve the joke gets a little drier, since the sleeves cover the forearms and the shins are still on their own. It suits anyone who skated once, still skates, or is buying for someone who limps a bit on Mondays.