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Big Sur California Vintage Retro Cotton Jersey Baby Bodysuit - Black Logo

Big Sur California Vintage Retro Cotton Jersey Baby Bodysuit - Black Logo

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The Big Sur baby bodysuit, for the coast where the Santa Lucia Mountains plunge into the Pacific. Soft fine jersey with the Big Sur vintage retro logo on the front in black, newborn to 24 months.

This is the new-baby gift from the hometown: light, soft, with a snap crotch that makes changes easy and a logo the parents will photograph. Order it as soon as the news arrives; it is the Big Sur piece most often bought for someone else.

Soft, breathable, and easy to change: an infant bodysuit in light 4.5 oz (153 g/m²) fine jersey with a secure snap crotch, ribbed binding, and side seams for durability. Solids are 100% combed ringspun cotton; heather shades include a cotton–polyester blend.

The Esselen lived on this coast for thousands of years, the Spanish called it el sur grande, the big country south of Monterey, and homesteaders and the Bixby sawmill came in the late 1800s. The Carmel–San Simeon highway took eighteen years to build; the Bixby Creek Bridge was finished on October 15, 1932, and Highway 1 opened end to end in 1937.

There is no town here, only ninety miles of road where the Santa Lucia Mountains and their redwoods fall straight into the sea: McWay Falls dropping eighty feet to the tide, the manganese-purple sand of Pfeiffer Beach, the 1889 Point Sur Light on its rock, sea otters in the kelp. Henry Miller’s writers’ colony arrived in the 1940s. The wild coast is the mark on this piece.


QUICK FACTS — BIG SUR CA COTTON JERSEY BABY BODYSUIT

Town: Big Sur, California

Founded: Highway 1 completed 1937

Known for: Ninety miles of Highway 1; the Bixby Creek Bridge (1932); McWay Falls; Pfeiffer Beach; redwoods meeting the Pacific

Art: Big Sur vintage retro logo, black (printed)

Blank: Unisex infant bodysuit, ribbed binding, side seams, snap crotch

Fabric: 4.5 oz (153 g/m²) fine jersey; solids 100% combed ringspun cotton, heathers cotton–polyester

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How does your sizing work?

Every item is made to order, so please check the size chart on this page before you buy. Women's fitted tees run small; size up for a looser fit. Caps are one size with an adjustable strap.

How are items made and when will they arrive?

We make each item to order using premium blanks, embroidery and soft-hand prints. Production takes 2-5 business days (weekends and holidays excluded), then 4-10 days in transit via USPS, UPS or FedEx to U.S. addresses; most orders arrive within 6-15 business days. You'll get a tracking link the moment it ships. Any current shipping offer is shown in the bar at the top of every page and applies automatically at checkout, no code needed.

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What's the return policy?

Made-to-order items can't be returned or exchanged for size or color, so please use the size chart and photos before ordering. If anything arrives defective, misprinted or damaged, send a photo and your order number within 30 days and we'll replace it or refund you.

How do I care for my item?

Apparel: wash cold, inside out, with like colors; no bleach; tumble dry low or hang dry. Embroidered pieces: iron inside out to protect the stitching. Caps: spot clean. Printed glasses and water bottles: hand wash only, no dishwasher, so the artwork lasts. Mugs and engraved glasses are dishwasher safe. Any item-specific care notes are in the description above.

Who makes this?

Merlin Classics is a small Connecticut brand making original retro designs for the towns people love. Every piece is printed, embroidered or engraved to order in the USA, and the business supports hunger relief in the communities our collections celebrate.

Today Big Sur is one of the most celebrated coastlines on earth, and a protected one — most of it state park, national forest, and wilderness, with a handful of lodges and the road threaded between. People come for the drive: the Bixby Bridge, McWay Falls, the Pfeiffer redwoods, the Point Sur light, and the long blue gaps of nothing but cliff and water. Our Big Sur designs gather that coast into wearable form — the bridge, the highway, the mountains meeting the sea. Explore the collection and wear a little of that wild coast.

The coast's stories tend to be about the road and the weather. Old-timers will tell you the bridge concrete was mixed to match the cliffs, and that for years the only phone out was a party line run pole to pole down the canyon. The winters it washes out — and it does, in slides with names like Paul's, Regent's, and the giant Mud Creek slide of May 2017, which buried a quarter mile of highway under fifteen acres of new coastline — Big Sur goes quiet and half-island again until Caltrans cuts it back open. Every story here circles back to the same two facts: the mountains are falling into the sea, and there is exactly one road through.

Why People Visit Big Sur California

  • Stop at the Bixby Creek Bridge — the 1932 open-spandrel concrete arch, 714 feet long and 280 feet high, and the most photographed point on the Big Sur coast. Note that a county no-parking zone took effect around the bridge in August 2026 — use the designated pullouts and never stop on the span.
  • See McWay Falls in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park — an eighty-foot waterfall that drops straight onto a cove beach below Highway 1.
  • Walk among the coast redwoods at Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, and find the purple-tinted sand at Pfeiffer Beach just down the road.
  • Tour Point Sur Lighthouse — the 1889 light station on a volcanic rock dome rising from the sea.
  • Hike the bluffs and canyons of Garrapata, Andrew Molera, and Limekiln state parks, and into the Ventana Wilderness in Los Padres National Forest.
  • Watch for sea otters in the kelp, gray whales offshore in winter and spring, and California condors riding the updrafts over the cliffs.
  • Drive the full Carmel–San Simeon stretch of Highway 1 — the ninety-mile coast road where the Santa Lucia Mountains meet the Pacific.

Big Sur California Merlin Classics retro vintage logo featuring the California grizzly bear and California Republic Est. 1850