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A pair of high-waisted shorts featuring a bold, colourful pattern on a dark blue background. The design includes swirling pink, yellow and white shapes against a black backdrop.

The Gang Boxers – Dylan Spencer-Davidson’s very special project

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Date
28 February 2013

Last summer Dylan Spencer-Davidson created a gang. Based everywhere and nowhere, what connects its members are shared values and hand-made boxer shorts. The gang is free to join – membership and boxers are bought with ethics.

The manifesto, outlining the gang’s values, is inscribed in gold satin on the waistband of the boxers. If, after careful study, a potential member agrees to the implications and commitments, they are invited to join the gang. They sign on this: “I ________ agree to be symbolically connected to the other gang members by the waist. I promise to attempt great things while wearing the gang boxers. I am feeling a lot of excitement right now.”

Probably the most beautiful gang garb ever made. Probably the most inspiring, idealistic gang manifesto ever written. Who wouldn’t want to join?

Three blue fabric garments are laid out, each featuring a small orange label. The labels contain a block of text beginning with “Celebrate your allegiance to the gang.”
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Dylan Spencer-Davison: The Gang Boxers labels

A block of bold yellow text set against a gradient background of orange and red. The text begins “Celebrate your allegiance to the gang” and continues with a manifesto about friendship, intuition and unity.
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Dylan Spencer-Davison: The Gang Boxers manifesto

A yellow text-based graphic reads “Hello” followed by an invitation to join “the gang”. The text explains that members must live by the “gang manifesto” to receive a pair of “gang boxers” free of charge.
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Dylan Spencer-Davison: The Gang Boxers signing up

A person wearing glasses works at a sewing machine under the glow of a black desk lamp. They are focused on a piece of dark fabric in a cluttered studio with sketches and a poster pinned to the wall.
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Dylan Spencer-Davison: sewing The Gang Boxers

A person stands in a doorway wearing a light-coloured shirt and patterned purple and blue shorts. They are looking down, pulling their shirt up to reveal their stomach.
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Dylan Spencer-Davison: wearing The Gang Boxers

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