Purrrate Halloween Pet Shirt

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Primer Rebelde De America’s unique perspective on Indigenous history is strong and apparent in the Purrrate Halloween Pet Shirt and I love this clothes. Vegas takes inspiration not only from punks, but also from the political and socially charged art from some of his favorite Indigenous artists. “One of my biggest inspirations is the [Indigenous] artist Gregg Deal,” he says. “He’s a painter but also does performance art.” The duo have been experimenting with reworking vintage pieces and adding impactful imagery onto them, via screen printing or spray-painting methods. “I started off doing one-of-one pieces,” Vegas says. “I didn’t even have a sewing machine at the time. I would just make do with what I had.”

One of the Purrrate Halloween Pet Shirt and I love this first pieces they made is a button-down shirt in honor of Hatuey, a Taíno chief from Hispaniola (what is now the Dominican Republic and Haiti). “He was [one of the first] to stand up to European colonization that was happening in the Americas, and he led a fight against Christopher Columbus,” says Vegas. Many of the label’s pieces are equally thought-provoking, including a plaid shirt that reads “This Land Is My Land” on the back and a button-down reading “Genocide,” finished in a deliberately white-washed bleach treatment. Another button-down even features an Indigenous twist on America’s four founding fathers, illustrated with photos of four Indigenous leaders, Red Cloud, Geronimo, Chief Joseph, and Sitting Bull instead.

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