Wicked End

profit over pride

Darc Sport is a perfect example.

AI generated graphics passed off as hand drawn grit. Paper thin Chinese blanks sold as premium American streetwear. Three dollar shirts flipped for fifty because hype hides the quality.

Then there’s the fake scarcity. Drops sell out in minutes, and suddenly the same shirts are on StockX for five times the price. Half the time it’s the brand itself reselling their own product. It’s not clever marketing. It’s just embarrassing that it works. Cheap blanks. Zero effort art. Sweatshop printing. Maximum margins, minimum integrity.

That’s profit at all costs. This is pride.

OUR BLANKS

Wicked End uses the highest-end blanks you can source in the United States. Full stop.

Heavyweight, boxy, American-made cotton from Los Angeles Apparel. There is no comparable option at this level. These are not budget tees dressed up as premium. They are substantial, structured, and built correctly from the start.

The weight is deliberate. The fit is intentional. The fabric is dense, durable, and designed to hold its shape year after year. These shirts do not thin out. They do not warp. They do not fall apart after a season. They age properly.

This is the thickest, cleanest fitting shirt I’ve ever worn, and nothing else came close. That decision defines the entire brand.

OUR GRAPHICS

Every graphic is drawn by hand. Either by me, Josh Pendergrass, or by a local artist whose work I believe in and commission directly.

Nothing is generated. Nothing is outsourced overseas. Every design starts on paper and is developed line by line through sketching, redrawing, refining, and reworking until it holds up.

These graphics are built for print first. Line weight, detail, and composition are considered from the start so they translate cleanly to fabric and age correctly with wear.

OUR PRINTING

Wicked End is screenprinted locally in El Paso, Texas at a family-owned print shop. Every piece is produced by people who take pride in the work, not by overseas factories or automated DTG lines cutting corners.

This is true screen printing. Real screens. Real film. Real ink pushed deep into heavyweight fabric so the print becomes part of the garment, not a layer sitting on top of it.

It wears in the right way. It cracks like real vintage. It holds up through years of use. This is how shirts used to be made before fast fashion lowered the standard.

THE CORE IDEA

I got tired of cheap shirts being sold as premium. Three-dollar garments flipped for sixty. Disposable tees dressed up with hype and excuses.

I wanted something real. Something I’d actually wear. Something built with enough care that it didn’t feel embarrassing to put my name on it.

Wicked End exists to reject mass production, artificial hype, and profit-first shortcuts. It’s about making something solid in a landscape flooded with disposable garbage. Fewer releases. Higher standards. Pride over margins.

Every part of this brand is pushed as far as it can go. Materials. Printing. Artwork. Nothing is cheap. Nothing is rushed. Nothing is done halfway. There are no compromises because I refuse to make them.

Wicked End is the shirt I always wanted but could never find. A real garment, built correctly, with real art and real quality behind it. Not the illusion of premium. The actual thing.

I can work this way because I don’t need to lower the standard just to squeeze every cent out of you. I don’t build products by cutting corners and hiding it behind branding. Wicked End only needs to sustain itself enough to let me keep doing this the right way.

I don’t give a fuck about profit.

independently produced premium apparel, funded and supported by our own digital work

Alongside physical releases, we publish a small catalog of digital assets originally created for Wicked End projects. These tools are shared publicly for designers and artists working in similar visual spaces.

Revenue from the digital work is reinvested directly into the apparel side. It allows us to use higher-end blanks, better printing processes, and more hands-on production while keeping prices reasonable and releases independent.