u/patch_ofurr

Picture this edgelord gear:

A black tee with a red screaming skull emerging from the dirt with one white eyeball, and capitalized white broken-letter "psycho" font above it saying "GROUNDBREAKER". It looked like a band shirt, but wasn't a band, it was just a shirt.

I got that in the mail around 1998 and boy did I love that shirt. I wore it to tatters. My last sight of it was in a bin on the side of the road in 2007 that was being totally scrounged through.

It came from a mail-order catalogue, DIY zine style, that I'm pretty sure was advertised through the back of Industrialnation zine, and was xeroxed and stapled. It had other designs but this one was best. One other design was a white tee with a black ink sketch of a BDSM lady holding a chain attached to a harness that lowered an evil doberman down to F her from behind... Gosh that was some edgelording. The catalog had a slogan "dress to molest" and was called pervert gear or something like that. EDIT: Thinking harder, I'm almost positive it was called GROSS GEAR.

Is this totally lost to pre-web history, or does anyone remember that zombie design, because I might like a new one if the artist is still lurking around somewhere, waiting to be revived to corrupt a new generation.

Yes I know 1990s isn't as oldhead as it gets but hi gen X'rs :)

EDIT again: Oh fuck!!! Making this post dislodged a now almost 30-year old memory. The search term Gross Gear brought it up immediately. Here's what I was looking for:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/196379019576

However I can't find any other trace of the maker except this lone shirt...

https://preview.redd.it/ycam13sod9yg1.jpg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e090a868a8d5d05c61230c995c57769f3fd8312f