The Bench Tee

The Bench Tee

XS
$44.00
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The Bench Tee
  • The Bench Tee
  • Woman on a subway platform beneath the 149 Street sign wearing The Bench Tee
  • Man seated beneath the 149 St-Grand Concourse sign in The Bench Tee
  • The Bench Tee worn on the 149 St-Grand Concourse platform
  • Woman pointing and man seated, both in Bench Tees under the station sign
  • Two people in Bench Tees beneath an elevated subway station at dusk
  • Man from behind walking a subway platform, BX Originals yoke mark visible
  • Four models in Bench Series tees beneath the 149 St-Grand Concourse sign
  • Flat front view of the black Bench Tee
  • Flat back view of the Bench Tee with BX Originals yoke mark
  • Side view of The Bench Tee on a model, sleeve QR patch visible
  • The Bench Tee
  • Woman on a subway platform beneath the 149 Street sign wearing The Bench Tee
  • Man seated beneath the 149 St-Grand Concourse sign in The Bench Tee
  • The Bench Tee worn on the 149 St-Grand Concourse platform
  • Woman pointing and man seated, both in Bench Tees under the station sign
  • Two people in Bench Tees beneath an elevated subway station at dusk
  • Man from behind walking a subway platform, BX Originals yoke mark visible
  • Four models in Bench Series tees beneath the 149 St-Grand Concourse sign
  • Flat front view of the black Bench Tee
  • Flat back view of the Bench Tee with BX Originals yoke mark
  • Side view of The Bench Tee on a model, sleeve QR patch visible
The Bench Tee

The Bench Tee

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Where the work got judged.

Every culture needs a room where the work gets judged.

Jazz had the after-hours clubs. Breaking has the cypher. Graffiti had a bench at the back of the uptown platform at 149th Street, where two lines and three boroughs came past and writers said out loud, in front of the person who painted it, whether it was any good. The station just finished a $123 million renovation. There's no plaque.

Know the history, link to the free Vault article: The Writers' Bench: 149th Street and the Culture of Benching

THE DETAILS
  • "The Bench" set center chest, white discharge print
  • "149 ST–GRAND CONCOURSE" beneath, smaller, right-aligned to the lockup
  • Set in Akzidenz-Grotesk / Standard Medium, the font of the 1970's MTA signage systems
  • QR code on left sleeve with "THE VAULT" above, linking to the article
  • BX Originals mark at back yoke
  • Nothing else on the back

MATERIALS & CONSTRUCTION
  • 100% combed ring-spun cotton
  • Fabric weight: 4.3 oz/yd² (145.8 g/m²)
  • Pre-shrunk
  • Blank product sourced from Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, or Cambodia

SIZE SPECIFICATIONS
Size Length Width
XS 27" 17 ½"
S 28" 19"
M 29" 20 ½"
L 30" 22"
XL 31" 24"
2XL 32" 26"
3XL 33" 28"

All measurements in inches. Width is measured flat across the chest.

This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!

BX ORIGINALS — TRUE TO THE CULTURE
Hip-hop has four elements: DJing, MCing, Breaking, Graffiti. Each product in our collections 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 product. 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.

BX Originals. True to the culture.

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