White 1520 Cap with black handstyle embroidery resting on a vintage chair

1520 Cap

Black
$40.00
Skip to product information
White 1520 Cap with black handstyle embroidery resting on a vintage chair
  • White 1520 Cap with black handstyle embroidery resting on a vintage chair
  • Man in black wearing the black-on-black 1520 Cap indoors
  • Profile of a man wearing the black 1520 Cap beneath a 1520 sign
  • Black 1520 Cap resting on a folding chair against a cinder block wall
  • Front view of the white 1520 Cap with black handstyle embroidery
  • Front view of the black-on-black 1520 Cap with tonal embroidery
  • Macro close-up of the tonal black 1520 embroidery
  • Side profile of a man wearing the black 1520 Cap
  • Man seated on a folding chair in a rec room wearing the black 1520 Cap
  • Man DJing at turntables wearing the black 1520 Cap
  • Two men talking, one wearing the black 1520 Cap and one the white
  • Three-quarter front view of the white 1520 Cap with Sedgwick Ave side script
  • Angled front view of the black-on-black 1520 Cap
  • Back view of the white 1520 Cap with BX Originals mark and snapback closure
  • Back view of the black 1520 Cap with BX Originals mark and snapback closure
  • Left side view of the black 1520 Cap with tonal Sedgwick Ave script
  • Left side view of the white 1520 Cap with Sedgwick Ave script
  • White 1520 Cap with black handstyle embroidery resting on a vintage chair
  • Man in black wearing the black-on-black 1520 Cap indoors
  • Profile of a man wearing the black 1520 Cap beneath a 1520 sign
  • Black 1520 Cap resting on a folding chair against a cinder block wall
  • Front view of the white 1520 Cap with black handstyle embroidery
  • Front view of the black-on-black 1520 Cap with tonal embroidery
  • Macro close-up of the tonal black 1520 embroidery
  • Side profile of a man wearing the black 1520 Cap
  • Man seated on a folding chair in a rec room wearing the black 1520 Cap
  • Man DJing at turntables wearing the black 1520 Cap
  • Two men talking, one wearing the black 1520 Cap and one the white
  • Three-quarter front view of the white 1520 Cap with Sedgwick Ave side script
  • Angled front view of the black-on-black 1520 Cap
  • Back view of the white 1520 Cap with BX Originals mark and snapback closure
  • Back view of the black 1520 Cap with BX Originals mark and snapback closure
  • Left side view of the black 1520 Cap with tonal Sedgwick Ave script
  • Left side view of the white 1520 Cap with Sedgwick Ave script
1520 Cap

1520 Cap

$40.00

Enjoy FREE SHIPPING on all orders!
Color

25 cents to get in.

A sixteen-year-old rented the rec room for twenty-five dollars.

August 11, 1973. Cindy Campbell wanted money for school clothes, so she made the invitations by hand and set the door at a quarter for girls, fifty cents for boys. Her brother Clive handled the records on their father's PA. Nobody in that basement was starting anything. It was a back-to-school party in the West Bronx.

Know the history, link to the free Vault article: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue: Where Hip-Hop Began

THE DETAILS
  • "1520" embroidered across the front panels in a broad brush handstyle — oversized, crossing the center seam, drawn after the lettering on the 1973 invitation
  • "SEDGWICK AVE." on the left side panel, two lines, same hand, small
  • BX Originals handstyle mark on the back panel above the closure
  • Color-matched hardware and snapback closure
  • Embroidery only — no patches, no print, no applied graphics

MATERIALS & CONSTRUCTION
  • 80% acrylic, 20% wool
  • Structured, 6-panel, high-profile
  • Flat visor with green undervisor
  • 6 embroidered eyelets
  • Plastic snap closure, one size fits most.
  • See chart for sizing details. Head circumference: 21 5/8″–23 5/8″ (54.9 cm–60 cm)
  • Blank product sourced from Vietnam or Bangladesh

COLORWAYS
  • Two, and they are not two options — they're two arguments.
  • Hero — "Rec Room" Black body, tonal black embroidery, black hardware. Reads as a plain black cap from across a room and resolves only up close. The basement, and the people who already know what happened in it.
  • Second — "Invitation" White body, black embroidery, white hardware. Marker on paper — which is exactly what the original was. High contrast, legible at distance, the one that does the talking

_________

BX ORIGINALS — TRUE TO THE CULTURE
Hip-hop has four elements: DJing, MCing, Breaking, Graffiti. Each cap in this series carries one, set in that element's own lettering tradition. Not four versions of one graphic — four distinct hands held together by one system.

THE BX VAULT
Every BX Originals piece connects to the BX Vault — our library of long-form writing on hip-hop history and practice. Not marketing copy. Real research on the people, places, and decisions that built this culture. The culture on the cap. The context behind it.

FROM THE BRONX
BX Originals documents hip-hop's four elements from where they started. We're not a fashion brand borrowing an aesthetic. We're building an archive that happens to make things you can wear.

You may also like