The return of a wonderful market!
Do you remember those halcyon days when surf denim was, like, a thing? Quiksilver, Billabong, Rip Curl, RVCA, Voclcom? Everyone was in the game, producing multiple yards of acid washed, bleach washed, stone washed cottons billowing and pillowing around thighs.
Very cool though, sadly, the drive to make jeans seemed to have dried up right when all the surf-consuming customers did.
Well, recent events in Lompoc, California signal that a rebound may be imminent as a man there broke into Surf Connection, the local surf shop, and made off with $1232 of grade-a surf denim.
According to the authorities, the theft occurred sometime around 2:00 am and the culprit, Michael Limon, was only arrested after authorities spotted him running into his nearby hotel room.
They identified his name etc. because he used it to book the very same room.
The denim was returned to the shop and now Limon must go to court etc. but off all the things to steal from a surf shop, boards, wetsuits, boards or wetsuits, the fact he stole jeans must indicate great things for that market.
Nice.
Which was your favorite surf jean?
Hot Buttered?
Ocean Earth?
An almost impossible choice.
Quik jeans, white quik hoodie and etnies slides. Fucking heaven!
Better return those 2 pairs of pants before they get interpol on it.
Ok I dont have much of a jeans story…but about ten years ago I bought a white billabong shirt from a surf shop my mate owned. It has an official hells angels print…skull in a helmet. He told me to hang on to it as apparently they were ordered to stop making them…legal issues. Its my favourite item of surf fashion
So I never wore it…I’m guessing it must have at least doubled in value by now…its going to fund my retirement…or maybe just the first few days
Yeah ya probably better off not wearing that in public.
Maybe give it to someone you don’t like and encourage them to though haha.
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Kinda surprising that the ‘bong only got warned with “legal issues”, or perhaps they had to pay monies in lieu of a beating…
Bastard beefy…you saw right through me
I go to all this effort to come up with an elaborate, reasonably plausible excuse as to why I dont wear the shirt…and you call me out as the yellow bellied coward I am
Clever bastard
Hahaha, not yellow bellied, just wise.
I went to school with a couple of guys who ended up patched, (in their 50’s now) and they take it VERY seriously (as in, life and death stuff). It’s just not worth ya while haha…
Mmmmm, Jalama burgers
The name Lompoc sounds like it should be in Indonesia.
Lompoc is an odd place. There’s a federal prison, and a military base that launches huge ICBM rocket (including space X stuff), and its by the central valley which is CAs bread basket. So you get poor hispanics, nerdy rocket scientists, and jar head dumbass jail guards mingling.
Theres a sick beach campground maybe 15 miles west (about 5 miles north of The Ranch) which is like time travelling. No condos or development just rolling hills. Only thing is it butts up against the rocket launching base so they’ll do zero notice evacuations. You’ll be hanging by the campfire in the eve and the host will roll through and let you know you need to be gone by 6am the next day. Only been evac’d once but I saw some 150 foot rocket getting launched. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
I don’t know what it is about a lot of California, but there always seems to be that quality of light in the photos / video. Like I can always tell it’s California. Odd.
The Golden state.
Peeps seem to get chopped on here more than any other section of the coast.
The only crime here is fashion.
Bring neon wetsuits and gotcha back!
Quik jeans were actually passable.
If ya squint ya eyes at his mugshot in the Lompoc paper he looks a bit like Kaipo wOsl.
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The only acceptable denim is Wrangler or Levi’s (but not button up), and if ya want shorts, just wait a couple of years or so till ya get holes in the knees and cut them off…
Man – I cannot believe you all have not given the Spencer Jones bar fight vid a surf angle. Ya slipping…
They weren’t jeans but I had a pair of oversized baggy blue billabong raver pants with neon yellow stitching that had a velcro stash pocket sewn into the seams of one of the calves just below the knee (lots of weirdly placed seams). Got me past many a sniffer dog.
I was that gurning fuckwit dancing next to you with the Fluoro green jacket and trust fund dreads.
You’d be surprised how popular that look still is in certain pockets of the central coast. Mos definitely in Morro Bay and Pismo Beach.
As a surf shop employee in the late 90’s/early 2ks (just down the road from Lompoc, actually), I had far too much access to Surf Denim. My favorites were Counter Cultures with a leg opening big enough to engulf my Airwalks and/or cupsole Vans. Also some absolutely ridiculous Bob Hurley-era Billabongs with mysteriously shiny satin interior waistband liners that caused them to slide even lower than my preferred upper-thigh sag level.
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Straight outta Lompton.
Excellent wordplay in the title
Had a real nice pair of insight jeans (complete with pre torn knee) that I bought at the outlet store out the back of hossegor.
Somewhere I’ve got a brown denim jacket made by rip curl in the mid 90s!
While I do love the Kye Fitz keppers featured above, personally I can’t go past a pair of Alby Mangels never nude https://uploads.disquscdn.c… cut offs
Hahahahaha Blue Man Group
You can almost see a sack there, like TC in his prime.
Nice n primal, everything about this man is free as the wind except for all the cocaine.
Felony theft for about 12 pairs of stiff pants.
I’m suprised he even got arrested. In LA they have been letting guys stealing cars just go with a citation. They don’t even take them in and book them anymore
Yaaaa im gonna need a source on that.
Should be inexpensive for the California taxpayers when they send him to the adjacent Lompoc State Pen.
Girbaud Complements of course.
Best thing about Lompoc is watching it get smaller in your rear view mirror as you drive out to Jalama.