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Learning To Surf At 60 LOL!

I asked a work colleague who was a seasoned surfer if they could remember what their first surf lesson was like, “trying not to drown for two hours” was his reply. Mmmm maybe I should re-think my ‘Learn to surf’ bucket list bullet point I was about to embark on. It was 2021 and somehow sixty years had passed and I found myself with a milestone birthday on the horizon. Unfortunately for me this milestone could also be seen from […]

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Appeal Of The Vintage T-Shirt

Fashion design, throughout history, has turned to previous eras for inspiration. Vintage t-shirts retain and increase in value due to the fact that it is genuinely from a past era. In the past, the t-shirt has been used as a vehicle for publicising social and political unrest, as a new method of advertising, band promotion and the more recent phenomena of the celebrity slogan t-shirt, such as; no photos please! - Millie Mackintosh Naomi hit me - Naomi Campbell I'm […]

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History Of The T-Shirt

This might come as a shock for you to learn, but the humble t-shirt has a pretty revolutionary history. How so? For one, it was seen as a symbol of everything from the counter-culture movement to rejecting authority and even straight out sex appeal.  How did this transformation come about? Basically, it has a lot to do with the garment’s popularity during World War II with soldiers and how they transferred that custom back home after the war. From using […]

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Best Surf Movies

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Best Surf Movies of All Time

As any surfer knows, there are good days and bad days. Not just in that we can’t quite get a good set or things aren’t flowing and we can’t find a rhythm. But, on many days, especially certain times of the year, it’s blown out chop when doing dawn patrol or flat as a pancake. Sometimes it’s worth a paddle out just to feel the salt water and talk to mates in what is the most private of times. You […]

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