
Bomb Story: At some point, The Hundreds was in collaborative talks with the now-defunct hipster children's television program, Yo Gabba Gabba. After submitting Adam Bomb concepts, they pulled the rug out from under us, ditching our project to work with a surf brand instead. We were disappointed and this draft of Adam was laid to rest. Funny to look back on how it all played out. Yo Adam lives!| 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.