TAKI 183
$26.49
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The TAKI 183 Cap honors the writer who brought graffiti to mainstream awareness—the Greek-American teenager from Washington Heights whose tag appeared so ubiquitously across New York City that the New York Times wrote about him in 1971.
TAKI 183 didn't invent graffiti. Writers were marking the city before him, and the form would evolve far beyond simple tags. But TAKI's prolific presence and the media attention it generated catalyzed graffiti's explosion. He demonstrated what was possible: that one person with a marker could make an entire city know their name.
The cap honors this origin without overstating it. TAKI 183 represents the beginning—the simple act of writing your name in public, repeated until it couldn't be ignored. Everything that followed—the throw-ups, the pieces, the wildstyle, the whole cars—built from this foundation.
This is a cap for those who understand that the tag is graffiti's fundamental unit, that getting up matters, and that a Greek kid from 183rd Street changed urban visual culture forever.
• 80% acrylic, 20% wool
• Green Camo is 60% cotton, 40% polyester
• Structured, 6-panel, high-profile
• 6 embroidered eyelets
• Plastic snap closure
• Green undervisor
• Head circumference: 21⅝″–23⅝″ (54.9 cm–60 cm)
• Blank product sourced from Vietnam or Bangladesh
TAKI 183
$26.49
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TAKI 183 didn't invent graffiti. Writers were marking the city before him, and the form would evolve far beyond simple tags. But TAKI's prolific presence and the media attention it generated catalyzed graffiti's explosion. He demonstrated what was possible: that one person with a marker could make an entire city know their name.
The cap honors this origin without overstating it. TAKI 183 represents the beginning—the simple act of writing your name in public, repeated until it couldn't be ignored. Everything that followed—the throw-ups, the pieces, the wildstyle, the whole cars—built from this foundation.
This is a cap for those who understand that the tag is graffiti's fundamental unit, that getting up matters, and that a Greek kid from 183rd Street changed urban visual culture forever.
• 80% acrylic, 20% wool
• Green Camo is 60% cotton, 40% polyester
• Structured, 6-panel, high-profile
• 6 embroidered eyelets
• Plastic snap closure
• Green undervisor
• Head circumference: 21⅝″–23⅝″ (54.9 cm–60 cm)
• Blank product sourced from Vietnam or Bangladesh
Size guide
| A (inches) | B (inches) | C (inches) | D (inches) | |
| One size | 20 ⅛-23 ⅝ | 4 ½ | 2 ½ | 7 ⅛ |