#Boardwalk

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Video thumbnail — The Mighty Shirt Kings on being pioneers of Hip Hop fashion | Rap Is Outta Control
Fashion 1980s–present

Airbrushed T-Shirts

Your name in chrome bubble letters over an airbrushed sunset, sprayed while you watched at the mall kiosk or boardwalk booth. Ten minutes of hissing compressor, a paint-speckled artist in a folding chair, and you walked away with the most personalized thing you owned.

Video thumbnail — The Trashiest T-Shirt Brand of the 90s: The Rise of Big Johnson (I Miss the 90's)
Fashion 1989–1997 peak

Big Johnson & Coed Naked T-shirts

The double-entendre T-shirt genre of the early 90s: a scrawny cartoon nerd named E. Normus Johnson bragging about his Big Johnson, and the Coed Naked line turning every sport into a wink. Sold by the millions on boardwalks and in malls, banned in schools, and litigated all the way to a state supreme court.