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Black Kat Kustoms is an American clothing line and custom parts shop based in Santa Ana, California. The company specialises in custom car, hot rod and chopper clothing, and its clothing line consists mostly of T-shirts, hooded sweatshirts and beanie caps. It was founded in 2003 by punk musician Mike Ness of Social Distortion and long-time hot-rodder Don Nemarnik.
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Black Kat Kustoms is an American clothing line and custom parts
shop based in Santa Ana, California. The company specializes in
custom car, hot rod, and chopper clothing. The clothing line consists
of mostly Ts, hooded sweatshirts, and
beanie caps.
The company was foundedin 2003 by punk legend, Mike Ness of Social Distortion and long time hot-rodder, Don Nemarnik. Ness states in an interview that he formed Black Kat Kustoms because he "hated everything else" and wanted to design "kustom car, hot rod and chopper t-shirts, so I would have something cool to wear." Ness details his long time love for designing punk style clothing in the Another State of Mind DVD commentary. He states that his graphic arts class was the only thing that kept him in school during his high school years.
The shop portion of the business is a place for Donnie and Mike to work on their own cars and bikes as a hobby which they occasionally sell.
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Black Kat Kustoms
Kustom culture — the custom car, hot rod and chopper scene centred in Southern California — has its own dress code: graphic T-shirts, hooded sweatshirts and beanie caps carrying shop names, pinstriping art and garage graphics. Black Kat Kustoms was founded inside that scene by two of its own: a punk frontman whose band, Social Distortion, had drawn on car culture imagery for decades, and a working hot-rodder. The clothing was designed first for the founders themselves and their circle, which is why it reads as scene uniform rather than licensed merchandise.
The dual structure matters. Alongside the clothing line sits an actual custom shop where cars and bikes are built as a hobby and occasionally sold — the workshop authenticates the shirts, and the shirts spread the shop's name far beyond the customers who could ever buy a car from it. That is the standard economics of culture-led apparel: the scarce, skilled core activity creates the credibility, and the reproducible clothing carries it to a wide audience at T-shirt prices. Ness's background connects the two halves — graphic arts was his one engaged school subject, and punk style clothing design grew directly out of the same do-it-yourself visual culture as the hot rod scene itself.
Black Kat Kustoms was founded in 2003 by Mike Ness of Social Distortion and long-time hot-rodder Don Nemarnik. Ness formed the company because he wanted to design kustom car, hot rod and chopper t-shirts he would have something cool to wear.
The clothing line consists mostly of T-shirts, hooded sweatshirts and beanie caps in custom car, hot rod and chopper style. The shop side of the business is a working custom shop where the founders build their own cars and bikes as a hobby, occasionally selling them.
Black Kat Kustoms is based in Santa Ana, California. Its founder Mike Ness's interest in designing punk style clothing goes back to his high school graphic arts class, which he has said was the only thing that kept him in school.