Folded black Handle Tee showing THE HANDLE handstyle over charcoal Handle

The Handle Tee

XS
$44.00
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Folded black Handle Tee showing THE HANDLE handstyle over charcoal Handle
  • Folded black Handle Tee showing THE HANDLE handstyle over charcoal Handle
  • Man leaning on a roll-down gate wearing The Handle Tee
  • Man from behind in a doorway, Handle Tee back print visible
  • Close-up of the red THE HANDLE handstyle over charcoal Handle
  • Close-up of the Handle Tee back print, A tag before anyone typed one, NYC 1971
  • Close-up of THE VAULT QR code on The Handle Tee sleeve
  • Folded black Handle Tee showing THE HANDLE handstyle over charcoal Handle
  • Man leaning on a roll-down gate wearing The Handle Tee
  • Man from behind in a doorway, Handle Tee back print visible
  • Close-up of the red THE HANDLE handstyle over charcoal Handle
  • Close-up of the Handle Tee back print, A tag before anyone typed one, NYC 1971
  • Close-up of THE VAULT QR code on The Handle Tee sleeve
The Handle Tee

The Handle Tee

$44.00

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Your username is a tag.

Nobody had to explain the handle to you.

You picked a name that isn't on your documents, and you've been building it quietly for years — the same one across different places, so people who only know you there know it's you. On July 21, 1971 the New York Times ran a piece about a seventeen-year-old doing exactly that on foot, with a marker. His reason has not aged at all.

Know the history, link to the free Vault article: The Name Before the Username

THE DETAILS
  • THE HANDLE centre chest, broad handstyle, chrome yellow, upper impression
  • Handle beneath, grotesque, charcoal, offset down and left, article dropped
  • Back yoke: BX Originals mark, charcoal
  • Back imprint: A tag before / anyone typed one. in chrome yellow, with 1971 bold beneath
  • QR on left sleeve with THE VAULT handstyle above, light ink

COLORWAY
  • Black body, chrome yellow and charcoal print — single colorway. The accent is the writer's voice and the charcoal is the institution restating it; those roles never swap and the body is never anything but black.

MATERIALS & CONSTRUCTION
  • 100% combed ring-spun cotton
  • Fabric weight: 4.3 oz/yd² (145.8 g/m²)
  • Set-in sleeves, side-seamed, ribbed collar with shoulder-to-shoulder taping, double-needle hems
  • Regular fit
  • Pre-shrunk

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!

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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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