Aplomb Clothing

June 17, 2009

Skatefest 2009, this Saturday!

Come kick it with Aplomb as we attend the Fairfax Surf Shop’s annual Skatefest event this weekend. The event takes place at Wakefield Skate Park, in Annandale, VA. The event should be awesome again this year with all proceeds going to help benefit the Children’s National Medical Center of Washington, DC. The event will consist of the Sk8 For A Cause ride and Various skate competition events in all age brackets. Over 6,000 in prizes and giveaways, don’t miss out!

Check out the official Skatefest Website here.

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June 15, 2009

New Aplomb Features

We recently had our products featured in both Daily Candy and Pop Culture Tees websites! Thanks to both of these guys for posting our stuff, you can check out the features below.

Daily Candy

Daily Candy

Pop Culture Tees

Pop Culture Tees

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June 12, 2009

Aplomb on Thrillist.com DC!

Thrillist.com did an awesome feature on us. Check out what they had to say below, or click here to read the actual article.

If you have too many issues with authority to hold down a traditional job, your employment options are generally limited to rock star, international bounty hunter, or carnie, because everyone knows carnies answer to no one. Or, you could slap your surliness on to gear, like Aplomb.

Hatched by a corporate dropout with an admitted “bad attitude” and his RISD-schooled partner, Arlington-based Aplomb aggressively applies a Gonzo aesthetic to DC themes with their line of 20+ super-soft cotton t’s, hoodies, and fitteds. Overtly political designs include “Green is Good”, with a tree inside a dollar bill inside a recycling symbol; “Wiretap”, with stylized soundwaves and equipment; “K-Street”, with X’d out suits fronting the Capitol and a silhouetted streetwalker featured prominently in the foreground; and “Truth”: a cartoonish skeleton banging on a podium under the flag, either a scathing commentary on America’s bellicose executive office, or a ringing endorsement of “Skeletor 2012″. Less brazen but still arresting are “Halftone”, with a DC flag replacing the “O” in “Aplomb”; “Birds Eye” with a stylized overhead shot of the grid around Dupont/Logan; and “Skyline”, with a photo-negative shot of a Capitol Hill side-street, most likely taken from a helicopter, which in turn was most likely pursuing a guy who also thinks green is very good, and will sell it to you.

Because t-shirts can’t hold credit cards, Aplomb’s also just dropped a fully embossed, black- and red- leather, Jacob’s ladder-style “magic” wallet that flips open two ways, a perfect prop for your next free-spirited job: a-hole street magician!

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Miles Midnight @ The Rookery Saturday!

Round 2. Miles Midnight @ The Rookery. Doors at 10pm, see you there.

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June 10, 2009

Get Magical.

Leave it to us to take the “magic wallet” and make it dope. These bad boys are made of premium leather with our signature tag logo embossed on both sides. Available in black leather with wine red liner and wine red with black liner. These are perfect for the summer months when your traveling light.

Now available in our shop, so pick one up!

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