• Big Sur California Vintage Retro Unisex Cotton Jersey Tank Top, Dark Grey, White Logo, Merlin Classics
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Big Sur California Vintage Retro Unisex Cotton Jersey Tank Top - White Logo

Big Sur California Vintage Retro Unisex Cotton Jersey Tank Top - White Logo

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The Big Sur tank, for the coast where the Santa Lucia Mountains plunge into the Pacific. Lightweight Airlume cotton jersey with the Big Sur vintage retro logo on the chest in white, for the hottest months of the year.

The tank is the summer Big Sur piece: light enough for the trail, the boat and the porch, cut in a retail unisex fit that runs true to size. Order it before the warm weather does the deciding for you.

Built to hold its shape: a lightweight unisex tank in Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton jersey with side seams and self-fabric binding. Retail fit, true to size for adults, tear-away label. Solids are 100% cotton; select heather/prism shades may include cotton–poly or cotton–poly–rayon blends.

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 TANK

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, white (printed)

Blank: Unisex jersey tank, retail fit, side-seamed, self-fabric binding

Fabric: Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton; solids 100% cotton, heather/prism shades blended

Label: Tear-away

Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

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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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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.

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The road changed everything, slowly. California approved the Carmel–San Simeon Highway in 1919, and crews began cutting the roadbed into the cliffs in 1921 — then ran out of money at the end of 1924, and did not resume until March 1928, this time with convict labor from three San Quentin road camps strung along the coast at Little Sur River, Kirk Creek, and Anderson Creek. The men earned thirty-five cents a day and a day off their sentences per two worked. Crews building from the north and south met on September 18, 1934, and the finished highway opened in June 1937 — eighteen years, start to finish, for ninety miles of road.

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.

Why People Visit Big Sur California

Big Sur is the rare place whose entire identity is its landscape. There is no historic plaza, no downtown — there is the road, the bridge, and one of the most dramatic meetings of mountain and ocean anywhere on earth. Visitors come to drive the coast, to photograph the Bixby Bridge, to stand above McWay Falls, and to watch condors over a shoreline that was nearly impossible to reach a century ago. They come because Big Sur is California with almost nothing built on it — only revealed, mile by mile, from a two-lane road.

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