NEVER DEPART Checkered Cross Tee

Look at it for three seconds. Then look again.

If you grew up skating, you know the checkerboard. It was on your shoes. Your grip tape. The back wall of every skate shop you ever hung around in way too long.

But this one has something hiding in it. There's a cross in the middle of the pattern. It isn't printed on top. It's carved right out of the squares, so it's part of the board itself.

Here's why that matters.

Life is a checkerboard too. Black squares and white squares. Good years and brutal ones. The day you got the job and the day you lost it. The season everything clicked and the season you didn't want to get out of bed.

The cross runs straight through both.

"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:38 and 39)

Not the black squares. Not the white ones. Nothing.

What's on it

A beat up, distressed checkerboard with a cross formed in the negative space. Black ink on faded bone. Skate shop on the surface. Something deeper underneath.

Here's what you're actually getting

• Heavy 7.1 oz, 100% cotton. Real weight and structure, not the thin, clingy feel of a cheap tee.
• Garment dyed after it's sewn. The bone color arrives already looking broken in. Every one fades a little differently.
• Boxy, oversized fit with dropped shoulders. The true 90s silhouette. Order your normal size for the oversized look, or size down one for a closer fit.
• Wide, twin stitched ribbed collar. Built to hold its shape instead of stretching out.
• Printed when you order it. Made for you, not pulled off a warehouse pile.

Part of Drop 01

One of the first ten designs from Never Depart. When Drop 01 closes, this design may not come back.

Our promise

If your shirt shows up damaged or misprinted, email us a photo and we'll send you a new one, free. No runaround.

Orders of $75 or more ship free anywhere in the US. Any two tees gets you there.

Every square. Every season. Never departed.