Hang ten clothing, WHERE??? - General Tiki

BPB Bay Park Buzzy Tiki Socialite West Bay Park, San Diego, CA Joined: Apr 07, 2006 Posts: 3066	BPB Bay Park Buzzy Posted posted on Fri, Dec 21, 2007 1:52 PM I know a little about them from their slight resurgence in the early 90's: About 91 or 92 Hang Ten started reproducing their own vintage patterns again and sold them at higher end mall places like Nordstroms. They did both the polo style shirts and tshirts for a couple years. The tshirts retailed for about $35, and the polos were about $50. Back in '94 or '95, Hang Ten liquidated all the rest of their stock of the striped tshirt material to Droors Clothing, which was the early version company that is now DC Shoes. They had about 8 giant rolls of it for a while in the pattern cutting and sewing room. Droors made tshirts and polo styled shirts from the material for retail sale, as well as used the material for making patterns and samples. All those samples either got given away or sold to the Buffalo exchange on Garnet. While they were in production, Hang Ten also used to unload their irregulars to that Buffalo Exchange. Since then, I can't remember Hang Ten ever making the shirts again, but they do occasionally license their name to random products. In 96 or thereabouts they had a bunch of rash guards and flip flops at places like Sports Authority and big 5. I think that Budweiser pulling out of the PSAA tour back then and not having a legitimate longboard circuit like that for a couple years kinda killed the big worldwide expansion plans that they had a few years earlier. After that, I stopped caring about clothes and don't know what they did. I do remember some dumb shoes they had a few years ago that were advertised in Surf mags... I always those litle feet! Buzzy Out! [ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2007-12-21 13:57 ]

I know a little about them from their slight resurgence in the early 90's:
About 91 or 92 Hang Ten started reproducing their own vintage patterns again and sold them at higher end mall places like Nordstroms. They did both the polo style shirts and tshirts for a couple years. The tshirts retailed for about $35, and the polos were about $50.
Back in '94 or '95, Hang Ten liquidated all the rest of their stock of the striped tshirt material to Droors Clothing, which was the early version company that is now DC Shoes. They had about 8 giant rolls of it for a while in the pattern cutting and sewing room. Droors made tshirts and polo styled shirts from the material for retail sale, as well as used the material for making patterns and samples. All those samples either got given away or sold to the Buffalo exchange on Garnet. While they were in production, Hang Ten also used to unload their irregulars to that Buffalo Exchange. Since then, I can't remember Hang Ten ever making the shirts again, but they do occasionally license their name to random products.
In 96 or thereabouts they had a bunch of rash guards and flip flops at places like Sports Authority and big 5. I think that Budweiser pulling out of the PSAA tour back then and not having a legitimate longboard circuit like that for a couple years kinda killed the big worldwide expansion plans that they had a few years earlier.
After that, I stopped caring about clothes and don't know what they did. I do remember some dumb shoes they had a few years ago that were advertised in Surf mags...
I always those litle feet!
Buzzy Out!

[ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2007-12-21 13:57 ]

Post #350776 by Bay Park Buzzy on Fri, Dec 21, 2007 1:52 PM