What's in a Name?

EVERYTHING! Especially when it involves my favourite word (no point for guessing). Which brings me to the point of this meeting. Being the end of summer we've all switched our board shorts for steamers in anticipation, or reaction to, the cold water pumping glassy winter waves onto our beaches. As I discarded my boardies I had what some in the romantic comedy film industry would call 'the final revelation' (yes, I made that up) in which me and my board shorts realise that our conflict is not greater than our love and we finally give ourselves to one another (in a slow motion scene to the sound of Jeremy Jordan). Romantic in that we have reached the moral of our story; that love conquers all. Comedy in that I am still talking about my boardies.

But this revelation is bittersweet as I realise the terrible state that my boardies are in, after countless surf's, never being rinsed in fresh water, and numerous mid-surf 'you know that attracts sharks, right?!' moments, they are looking considerably worse for wear. The hems on the side have been stitched up by my mum (thats right... ladies), the pattern on the front is barely recognisable, and what was once black is now a questionable purple. Time to put them to rest and find a new partner in crime.

It was then I realised (while tilting my head and eyes up and ever so slightly to the right) that winter wasn't looming everywhere in the world, that topsiders were just going into the glory season. My thoughts turned immediately to my favourite named brand 'Warriors of Radness'. It's the kind of name that should swoop onto the screen with accompanying fireworks and a guy with a handlebar moustache giving you the thumbs up. Their apparel is along the line of 90s hypercolour beach wear, but the one thing I think they do really well are their board shorts, or trunks. The higher up the thigh the shorts go, the more they remind you of Elvis at the beach, and the more they deserve to be called trunks.

Feast your eyes on the 90's radness...

Check out all the Warriors of Radness gear and Spring Lookbook.

If I'd known this was going to turn into an ode to my boardies, I'd have brought refreshments.

I shall leave you with perhaps the most well renowned film quote of our time;

"Surfboard wax mixed with dog hair and sand... NOT BAD!!"