Boredom Kills Grey Collegiate Shorts

Collegiate. Grey. Boredom Kills' Most Institutionally Coded Visual Language on Its Most Composed Canvas — and Its Most Self-Aware Tension.

The Boredom Kills Grey Collegiate Shorts carry the most institutionally prestigious, most tradition-forward visual system in American culture on the most composed, most academically grounded canvas — and the most self-aware, most culturally subversive tension the brand has built into a single piece. Collegiate — the varsity lettering, the athletic typography, the institutional graphics of the most prestigious universities and the most storied athletic programs in American history, the visual language that carries the most accumulated prestige, the most legacy-coded authority, the most tradition-forward institutional identity of any aesthetic system in American dress. Collegiate is the visual language of the most structured, most rigorous, most credentialed environments in existence — the aesthetic that says you have been somewhere important, that you belong to something with history, that the institution behind the lettering has weight and permanence and the most established authority available. Boredom Kills wearing Collegiate is the most self-aware, most quietly subversive move the brand makes — and the most honest. Boredom Kills is named after the most dangerous condition of the most disengaged, most under-stimulated mind: the state that the most structured, most institutionally rigorous environments are supposed to prevent, but often produce. The brand that exists because the institution wasn't enough, wearing the visual language of the institution. Not as irony. As the most honest acknowledgment that the most prestigious environments and the most restless, most creatively driven minds have always existed in the most productive, most generative tension with each other — that the most important creative work has often come from those who were most shaped by the institution and most compelled to move beyond it. Grey gives that Collegiate identity the most composed, most tonally appropriate canvas — the color of the most considered, most academically present wardrobes, the base that carries the Collegiate visual language with the most understated, most quietly authoritative presence available.

Features

• Premium shorts construction built for warm-weather comfort and all-day movement — the Collegiate visual language on the most seasonally present, most movement-forward bottom in the Boredom Kills lineup
• Grey colorway that delivers the most composed, most academically appropriate canvas for the Collegiate identity — the most understated, most quietly authoritative base for the most institutionally coded visual system in the catalog
• Boredom Kills Collegiate graphic that carries the most tradition-forward, most prestige-coded visual language in American culture through the most self-aware, most creatively subversive brand lens — the institution and the restless mind, in the most productive tension
• Relaxed fit built for warm-weather comfort and all-day movement with the quietly authoritative presence the Collegiate identity demands
• Elastic waistband with drawstring for a clean, adjustable fit

How to Style It

Wear them with a grey, white, or any Boredom Kills tee and clean sneakers or campus-ready footwear for a full fit that carries the Collegiate's most institutionally coded, most tradition-forward authority from top to bottom with complete grey-canvas, Boredom Kills conviction, or pair them with any graphic top to let the Grey Collegiate Shorts hit as the most quietly prestigious, most self-aware element of the warm-weather rotation. The Boredom Kills Grey Collegiate Shorts are the piece for those who were shaped by the institution — and compelled to move beyond it.