Profile: B-Unique Clothing

B-Unique Clothing

By RW wordmaster K Steez The Don

I have been rollerblading for about 8 years now. I have seen many companies, trends, and skaters come and go. Some of them I miss, like FR tee shirts and the hoax 2 video. Others I was glad to see leave, like Bauer aggressive skates and alleyoop sidewalk grinds. When I was younger all I wanted to wear was any kind of shirt with a skate logo on it. I didn’t care what company it was or what the shirt looked like, I just wanted to represent rolling. As I got older and wanted to wear some fresh clothes to impress the lady’s I started to wear clothes that I thought looked stylish. Most rollerblading clothing companies back in the day were not making the most stylish or fancy designs. They were still nice shirts but it seemed like there wasn’t too much effort put into them. I took a short vacation from skating and when I returned I noticed a big change. As I was looking at a new Roller Warehouse catalog and scanning through the pages for something that caught my eye, I noticed that the clothes had changed a lot. Instead of just a basic logo sprawled out on the front of a t-shirt, there were some nice designs and some logos that had some thought behind them. As I kept looking to see which brands had the best logos and clothing to fit my style, I realized that a new company out of New York called B Unique was making some amazing and stylish clothes that really fit the style that I was looking for.

Since then, B Unique has proved to be a great clothing company. When they released the DVD freestyle rolling everyone knew that they had a sick team with great style and amazing skating. Their clothing has always been really fresh; the Original tee is becoming a classic just like mindgame’s mind kind logo. When you see that big /B/ logo, you know what it represents. When I first got some B unique clothing, I was really impressed by the quality of the shirts. Some skate brand tee shirts seemed to be made out of cheap cloth that you could buy at a grocery store, with a company logo sewed or ironed onto the front. But the B Unique shirts felt thicker and more durable. The tags on the shirts are real tags with the company name instead of a Haines or fruit of the loom tag. The grown man polo shirt was another one that was a regular in my wardrobe. It is just like a Polo shirt that you can buy at Nordstrom’s so it has that style that the lady’s are looking for, but it also has the famous B logo on the front instead of a dude riding a horse. And we would all rather have a sick skating logo on our shirt than a random horse. The best part about this shirt was that I was able to wear it out to nice dinners and stuff with my family because it is a collard shirt. Since I liked their clothing so much, I was anxious to see what the new line that they had coming out for the summer of 06 would look like. When we received the new B Unique line in here at Rollerwarehouse, I immediately went to the back to check out the logos and designs. And just as I was hoping and expecting, they were amazing.

My favorite shirt in the new line is definitely the Bathing I.Q.N.Y tee. This shirt will make anyone who doesn’t think that skating clothes are stylish realize the truth. It shows the face of the character that was on the first I.Q.N.Y shirt, but his hat has the Bape camouflage print on it. Bape is a popular clothing company from Japan that has become pretty popular in the inline world due to the Kelso brothers wearing their clothes while they skate, and because of their sick designs and logos that have been seen on rappers in videos on MTV. The Einstein Tee is another shirt that people will really want to wear this year. It shows a picture of the great Albert Einstein himself, sporting some big blingin’ chains around his neck. Back in the old days of skating you would never see a shirt like that. It shows that you can be smart like Albert, and have some steez at the same time with the gold chains. The Gina Tee is another shirt that will be in high demand. Everyone loves the classic gangster movie Scarface, and now B Unique lets you keep it gangster with the Gina tee, it has a picture of Gina who is Tony Montana’s sister in the movie. It is also available as a crew neck sweatshirt. I personally got one of each of these shirts, when I wear them I usually throw my RW dog tags around my neck to get that hip hop flavor that I am looking for. If you look in our summer/fall 2006 Rollerwarehouse catalogue, you will come across a picture of Julian Bah wearing the B Unique thank God tee. It is a shirt that is available in black or white and reads “Thank God For Skating” on the front in gold letters. This shirt allows you to really represent rolling, and do it in a fashionable way. The Diamond tee, the New York Times tee, and the original NY tee are the other hot new shirts that B Unique made for this line. The New York Times shirt is available in black or teal and is pictured on our website www.rollerwarehouse.com. The original NY shirt is just like the classic original tee with the “B” logo on the front, but it has lines going down through the logo and is available in only blue. Most of the time I would only use my skating shirts to skate in, but since these shirts are just as nice as what I would normally wear to go out on the town, I find myself draped in B Unique fits a lot more.

The thing that I love the best about B unique, is that I can now sport the 2 styles that I want to represent at the same time. These clothes keep me close to my roots because it represents rolling. And they also keep me fitted up in the latest hip-hop styles. If you are looking for some new outfits to keep you looking fresh for back to school, look no further than the new clothing line from B-Unique.