80sTees.com This Founder's Pick is Totally Rad!

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From: Kevin at 80sTees - Friday Sep 07, 2018 08:59 pm
This Founder's Pick is Totally Rad! 🚲 🚲 🚲
Hey Friend:

This is definitely the most RAD Founder’s Pick that I’ve done to date. Today’s shirt is our RAD Racing CRU Jersey shirt. RAD is a movie that one of my best friends was obsessed with back in the ‘80s, and he got his mom to rent it for him all the time. So I have always had a great appreciation for it.

Here I am sporting the jersey while popping a sick wheely on my son’s Mongoose BMX bike. Also for you fellow fans, I realize Bart Taylor was sponsored by Mongoose so Cru would never be cool with that!
One of the coolest things about the movie from a “costume” perspective is that there is a scene where we get to see Cru’s racing jersey being custom made. It was a team effort by Cru’s friends and we actually get to see his merchandise being custom dyed and hand painted too. Here’s the scene where you can see CRU being fitted for the jersey, and someone is working on the pants at the sewing machine.
Since the real movie jersey was custom sewn, it has decorations on the arms and sleeves in addition to the front and back. That’s something that can be done at a mass scale for retail sales, but typically it would require a large production run to make it economical. Luckily for us we have a factory that will recreate the look of the jersey using cut-and-sew sublimation. Essentially they custom print every piece of the garment onto a large sheet of paper and then melt that design into a white polyester cloth. Then they cut the fabric and sew it together.

This makes an amazing and quick costume which is accurate to the look of the movie, although it is not accurate to the material.

The jersey is great to wear around just to see who recognizes it. When someone does, you are in for major compliments and for sure you’ll hear how RAD your shirt is.

The only downside to the shirt is that the material is quite thin. That’s not a downside in terms of warmth because I’ve found that it holds in heat pretty well. But the white stars can show tattoos due to the lack of thickness.

Other than that we haven’t had any complaints, and you won’t find a more accurate design replica.

Kevin Stecko, Founder
80sTees.com
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