Description
Bomb Story: Often, Adam Bombs are parodies or flips of outside cultural touchpoints. But sometimes, they are self-referential and meta. Block Adam is an appropriation of an earlier The Hundreds graphic from the 2000s called ""Blocks,"" in which ""The Hundreds"" is written out in cascading block letters. | Background Story:
Originating in Scotland as ""tartan,"" we now call this pattern of crisscrossed lines ""Plaid."" Growing up in Southern California during the '80s and '90s, plaid beach volleyball shorts were always in our purview, thanks to labels like Mossimo and Stüssy. When we elevated to making cut-n-sew apparel like button-ups in the early 2000s, plaids made their way into our language as a nod to both the surf culture of the West Coast and Polo's influence on the East. In fact, every plaid speaks to a different subculture. Buffalo plaids were woven into the early New York hip-hop lumberjacks. Shadow plaids on swap meet Pendletons. And The Hundreds plaids, for all.
