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Iconoclast boardsportsman and outspoken tastemaker Jason Dill is back at it again, this week controversially dropping video footage that prominently features a tucked-in t-shirt. The web clip, posted above, proved instantly divisive on the ‘Net and has raised fresh questions around the “institutionalization” of skateboarding as corporate interests exert ever greater control over team dress codes and branding.
The issue has festered since the early ’00s when Baker/Bootleg teamriders sparked outrage and tingled curiosities by donning fitted sportcoats. The latest escapade by Dill, known for provocative fashion choices such as Diesel jeans and nudity, will likely alarm industry observers already concerned about the growing influence of “the man.”
Jason Dill first signaled an embrace of the tuck last summer when he, along with noted dressers Alex Olson and Eli Reed, were spotted tucking in tank-tops at the Maloof Money Factory contest. Dill recently reprised that look at Brandon Biebel’s skatepark where he demonstrated that a more-constricted waistline need not interfere with basketballing feats. But expanding the initiative to include t-shirts opens a new front in the steadily growing furor and presents aging boarders with another dilemma around the already murky standards of conduct in the elder statesman role.
A little over a decade ago Dill spoke of chafing under the norms of mid-90s California skate-code, which required a certain bagginess of pant and support for Wu-Tang Clan singles. Could his venture into tucking shirts reveal similar discomfort with fashion standards that have in the past 10 years more closely aligned with Jason Dill’s personal tastebuds re: tightness and expense? Is this really a big marketing ploy for a new line of FuckingAwesome belt buckles? And will Jason Dill laugh all the way to the bank as five years from now we all vigorously are tucking and he sharply moves to un-tuck in a scenario that is like Dr. Seuss’ cautionary tale about the Sneetches?
Tags: atrocities, basketball ball, belt buckles, Bill Strobeck, Brandon Biebel, Dr. Seuss, Jason Dill, Rebel INS, shirts, slam dunks, sneetch, tucks
April 26, 2011 at 12:11 am |
funny, i thought i was reading a skateboard blog, not ‘overly self-indulgent ramblings by a bad writer who is sad that he got rejected from a state college creative writing MFA’
April 26, 2011 at 12:51 am |
shut up ricky. for real. dont come to the nw ever
April 26, 2011 at 3:28 am |
I’m backin’ it… I think the neck-tie will be the real decider though…
April 26, 2011 at 10:35 am |
hilarious. I thought you were going to throw a ‘that may not be the only thing being tucked’ for a minute.
April 26, 2011 at 1:38 pm |
shirt-tucker:
Conservative Christian, right wing Republican, straight, white, American male.
Gay bashin’, black fearin’, poor fightin’, tree killin’, regional leaders of the South
Frat housin’, keg tappin’, back slappin’ haters of hippies like me.
Soul savin’, flag wavin’, Rush lovin’, land pavin’ personal friends to the Quayles
April 26, 2011 at 1:50 pm |
that’s just reductionism, man…
April 27, 2011 at 9:15 am
And I don’t wanna be learned
And I don’t wanna be tamed
And I don’t wanna be learned
And I don’t wanna be tamed
And I don’t wanna be learned
And I don’t wanna be tamed
And I don’t wanna be learned
And I don’t wanna be tamed
April 26, 2011 at 6:35 pm |
tucking a shirt into jeans is a big time faux pas, but it’s Dill, maybe he was going for a John Cougar Mellencamp kind of thing…Dill is meta as fuck, he’s so ironic you can’t tell if he’s ironic or unironic
ps. nice Tucker Max tag
April 26, 2011 at 8:58 pm |
It’s funny. All that I could think about while watching that particular skateboard clip was how much I liked the skateboarding. Thank you for pointing out the faux pas’ though. I should really go back and reconsider all of the videos I’ve liked from here on out and maybe change my opinion.
April 26, 2011 at 9:00 pm |
I understand I irony, I was being ironical as well.
April 26, 2011 at 9:01 pm
the*
April 27, 2011 at 2:07 am |
love tino’s tailblockslidey thingy
April 27, 2011 at 3:25 am |
This blog is weird to me. I mean, do skateboarders read things? CAN they read things? And even if they can read words, do they understand what they mean?
April 29, 2011 at 11:06 am |
not really no
April 27, 2011 at 2:38 pm |
The trend is already catching on
http://ripndipclothing.com/2011/04/walk-in-the-park-2/
April 27, 2011 at 7:12 pm |
Looks like Ethan Fowler visual sound, he’s even got the slick!
April 28, 2011 at 9:34 am |
he wishes
August 12, 2015 at 11:57 pm |
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