Bomb Story: As far as we can remember, and we could be wrong here, Drop Adam never made it as an official T-shirt graphic for The Hundreds. In fact, we don't even remember the inspiration or reasoning behind the artwork. Our only thought is that this started off as part of a larger design that got scratched. We debated on including him in the collection, but he's so different, so odd, that we feel like he can make his home in the Adam Bomb Squad.| Background Story: Originating in Scotland as ""tartan,"" we now call this pattern of crisscrossed lines ""Plaid."" Growing up in Southern California during the '80s and '90s, plaid beach volleyball shorts were always in our purview, thanks to labels like Mossimo and Stüssy. When we elevated to making cut-n-sew apparel like button-ups in the early 2000s, plaids made their way into our language as a nod to both the surf culture of the West Coast and Polo's influence on the East. In fact, every plaid speaks to a different subculture. Buffalo plaids were woven into the early New York hip-hop lumberjacks. Shadow plaids on swap meet Pendletons. And The Hundreds plaids, for all.