People appear on T-shirts. BARBER BOYS staff member Hiroo Shimada

It's just a T-shirt, but it's still a T-shirt. Each T-shirt tells an eloquent story of the owner's life. We asked Hiroo Shimada, a staff member at BARBER BOYS, to tell us about his favorite T-shirt.

photo: Hiroki Oe / text: BRUTUS

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Rather than the popular one, I admire the bad boy second one that no one looks for.

There's a machine gun called the "Chicago Typewriter" that was popular among the Chicago mob and makes a soft "plink plink" sound when fired. There's one that shows him holding one, and another that shows Bugsy Siegel of "Murder, Inc.", who was secretly hired by the mob to eliminate their own family members. These were designed by Fashion Victim, who made "AKIRA" T-shirts in the 90s.

I've never met anyone who collects them, and I've never seen anyone who wears them. My first one was this one of John Dillinger in "Public Enemy Number One." I guess it all started with movies. I thought it was cool. The more good a person you are (lol), the more you admire a real bad guy. I feel like I'm closer to Quentin Tarantino than Takeshi Kitano.

T-shirt from the movie "Public Enemy Number One"
He currently has nine albums, including others featuring Machine Gun Kelly, Lucky Luciano, and, of course, Al Capone. He also collects mafia movies, but only the cool ones.

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