Feats of Athleticism and the Gear You Need to Perform Them
All the power's in the hands / Of the people rich enough to buy it / While we walk the street / Too chicken to even try it
TWR went around the globe this week to bring you the latest in Great Clothes and The Men Who Wear Them. We’ve got very good garms from Tokyo, Portland, and the LES c/o Korea. Plus, we cover Racism in Liverpool and an Australian guy making an ass of himself in California.
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UPPER UNIFORM
Dreamcast Game Shirt by Sedan All-Purpose
The 2025-26 football season has officially kicked off, so TWR is certainly not slowing down on footy shirt recommendations. Sedan All-Purpose is a Tokyo-based garm manufacturer focused on making top-tier sportswear drawing on inspiration from 90s nostalgia, particularly that golden era of European football. Unlike the mass-marketed nostalgic BullShit we’re bombarded with on a daily basis, Sedan All-Purpose mines the past for only the best silhouettes and brings them into 2025 with modern design features and textiles. Football history and culture is a consistent presence in their collections, and the layers to this Dreamcast collab go deeper than most. Arsenal’s former front of shirt sponsor from 1999 to 2002, this Dreamcast collab gave Sedan All-Purpose an opportunity to get on their Frankenstein Shit with Arsenal kit history. The Gunners sported the iconic Dreamcast logo as they romped to the Premier League title in 2002. Just 4 years later, we saw this maroon hue on the pitch as Thierry Henry secured Champions League football on Highbury’s final day before destruction. Titi’s aura is mixed throughout, including his iconic number 14 in the Prem font on the back of the shirt. Despite pulling from multiple eras and mashing ‘em together, this shirt turned out extremely Tasteful and Banging, just like the rest of Sedan All-Purpose’s offerings. We’ll likely never see Arsenal win the Premier League again, so shout out to Sedan All-Purpose for immortalizing Arsenal’s peak for Gooners everywhere to cling on to.
OUTERWEAR
Corduroy Team Jacket by Dehen 1920
Hard Clothes used to be all we had. Heavyweight apparel made of cotton in many different forms, flannel, corduroy, and D-E-N-I-M! These garms were built to withstand the rigors of daily life back when humans used to go outside, participate in activities, build and destroy things, and we valued our short existence. Many of us don’t recall how different life was before iPhones and TikTok and Huckberry and Craft Beer. Now we’re bombarded with joggers made of “88% Recycled Polyester, 12% Elastane” or t-shirts “derived from wood-based materials from well-managed forests.” Sustainability and innovation are truly wonderful and important undertakings for clothing manufacturers, but the majority of the things they’re selling under these banners are just overpriced Shitty garms with a marketing gimmick slapped on top. We recently got wise to Dehen 1920 on a browse around Frances May, a Portland-based outfitter of the bangingest brands in Fashion. Dehen 1920 has been making traditional-style Heavyweight apparel since 1920 (hence the name) right in the heart of Portland, OR. The styles are vintage-inspired with modern updates. The materials are Tuff as hell, like 22-ounce Melton wool varsity jackets or 12-ounce waxed cotton vests. This corduroy coach’s jacket was a standout for us, made from 6.75 oz. 100% cotton 14 wale corduroy produced dusty blue sourced from Brisbane Moss in the UK. It’s finished with wool trim and manufactured in PDX. Traditional heavyweight apparel should be the foundation of every Soldier’s locker, so cop a piece or two from Dehen 1920 if you’re light on Hard Clothes.
LOWER UNIFORM
Double Knee Seam Jean Shorts by Star Team
Star Team is consistently making Interesting Pants and Shorts. Case in point: these funky-ass double knee jorts with trippy asymmetrical seams running down both sides. Kyota and crew’s designs work because they always build off a sturdy foundation. They know how to make a damn good pair of classic bottoms, which enables them to freak them every which way they want. TWR was paying attention from the jump as Star Team rolled out banging jeans in relaxed cuts and heavyweight fabrics. They’d put in a lil pleat or a wild color to Star-ify them Shits. Then they really started to experiment and now each season has a mix of straightforward bottoms and Banging Slappers. There’s something for everyone with double knee pants, jean shorts, muted or wild patterns, crazy fabrics, and probably some future designs that cannot yet be manufactured using current technology. Accessories are also a big focus for Star Team, harkening back to the earliest days of “streetwear” when brands would hit you with quirky and/or useful branded accessories before they were doing jet skis and vibrators and Shit. It’s en vogue to look down on the youth of today and scapegoat them for the world’s ills, but look beyond TikTok and you will find Cool Motherfuckers doing Sick Shit like never before.
FIELD NOTES
SOLDIER OF THE WEEK
Antoine Semenyo
Racism is alive and well in 2025. In fact, that Shit is positively Thriving around the world as Assholes rise to power and enable other Assholes to behave like disgusting pieces of Shit. The Premier League season kicked off with Bournemouth visiting Liverpool, and we were treated to some old fashioned Scouse racism in less than 30 minutes. The match was stopped after a racist prick shouted a slur and threw gum at Bournemouth and Ghana forward, Antoine Semenyo. The dipshit was rightfully hauled out of Anfield and arrested. Unfortunately, he missed a dazzling response from Semenyo as he smashed a brace to bring the Cherries level with the reigning champions. Liverpool won the match, but Semenyo left the pitch with his head held high and a warning shot to the league.
ENEMY OF THE WEEK
Ricky Glaser
Was it a crook or a nosegrind? Who gives a flying fuck. This fella dresses like Product Placement Garth but he’s not getting paid and he’s probably not even getting the gear for free. It’s unlikely that Richy is sending kids stampeding to the Vans store upon watching one of his YouTube videos. He dresses like an extremely desperate loser who wants to be Cool so badly but has no idea how to do it. His only discernible talent is the ability to make the Vans Old Skool, one of the most perfect silhouettes in the history of footwear, look like Shit. Logo socks and tee complete the uniform as Richy hopelessly tries to be noticed. Is anyone doing more to ruin the Vans brand than Richy wearing the logo on every part of his body? Perhaps Vans themselves, currently hemorrhaging money and grasping at straws to survive. SZA’s their new “Artistic Director” as they try going more mainstream. They recently booted Corey Glick from the team mere days (we hope) away from the release of what’s sure to be a star turn in Sci-Fi Fantasy’s ‘Endless Bummer’. ‘Parting ways’ with one of the hottest names in skating is even more stunning when juxtaposed against their big new product launches like the Era Curren and a re-vamped K-Walks. No move makes much sense and they’re approaching a dangerous point of no return. Come to think of it, perhaps Vans is paying Richy. They’re both scrambling to stay relevant, neither seems to understand what’s Cool or Interesting in 2025, and they both bring a very Poser vibe to the function that Soldiers don’t really like.
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