IN BETTER TIMES, cautious parents sent their children off to sleep-away camp with the kids’ names scrawled inside their clothes, lest Jimmy’s shirt be confused with Johnny’s shirt. But those Sharpie markings were not meant to be seen. The far-more-intricate tracings that American labels such as Bode and Small Talk Studio have begun inscribing on clothes, by contrast, are prominently penned on the pieces’ exteriors. These one-off pants, shorts, jackets and tees drip in idiosyncratic drawings that depict everyday ephemera, rambling florals and historical doodads.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 11, 2020 19:52 UTC