Turning your hobby into your livelihood is not an easy task, it requires blood, sweat and determination. Our journey started nearly 30 years ago when our passion for collecting vintage sportswear, Americana and militaria morphed into an actual business

The psychogeography of California plays a huge part in the designs and products we make so naturally we want to explore these places, spaces and the people that inhabited them first hand. One of our all time favourite books here at TSPTR is John Steinbeck’s 1962 travelogue Travels with Charley, in it he famously notes, “….we do not take a trip; a trip takes us”. We completely subscribe to this ideal and every R and D mission we undertake has its own life and personality

We’re asked a lot about the stuff we get up to so decided to put together a short behind the scenes film of a recent trip, narrated surf movie style by TSPTR spirit animal @d_rad.forever - we hope you enjoy it….

Film by Simon Goodrick

Cameras - Simon Goodrick and James Sharp 

Featuring music by Pavement, Further, Babe Rainbow, Chris Darrow and Jonathan Wilson