Love Hurts Basketball Shorts
The Piece
Knee-length athletic basketball shorts — **white mesh body fabric** with **all-over sublimated red-roses-cluster pattern** repeating across the entire body, **black ribbed elasticated waistband** with **white flat drawstring**, **side hand pockets** with vertical welt openings, **black ribbed-binding hem with red contrast piping** along the leg openings. Knee-length cut. NOT pants. NOT joggers. NOT short-shorts. NOT a swim trunk. NOT a track short.
Front
- **front-body** (entire white mesh field, front and back continuous): The canonical Red Roses Cloud Cluster art (three red roses + thorny green vines + white-and-blue cloud at base) sublimated as a small repeating pattern across the entire white mesh body, scattered evenly with the cloud pointing down. Each rose-cluster is rendered in canonical full color (saturated red roses, kelly-green stems, white-and-blue cloud) on the white ground. **Technique:** sublimated. **Color:** canonical multi-color red green white blue on white mesh. - **front-right-thigh** (large, diagonal, ~6–7in tall): The "Love Hurts" wordmark in cursive script — large red script lettering sublimated on the right thigh, reading top-to-bottom diagonally as the cursive lettering descends. **Technique:** sublimated. **Color:** canonical Love Hurts red. - **front-left-hem** (~2in × 2.5in, near the bottom hem on the wearer's left hip area): A small Love Hurts branded patch — a black-square patch with the "Love Hurts" wordmark in cursive red lettering. **Technique:** embroidered-patch. **Color:** red wordmark on black patch.
Back
- **back-body** (entire white mesh field, continues from front): Same all-over Red Roses Cloud Cluster pattern as the front, continuing seamlessly. **Technique:** sublimated. **Color:** canonical multi-color on white mesh.
Oakland-inspired luxury streetwear. Defiant rose design on breathable mesh.
The Story
My grandmother used to say it plain: "Love hurts, baby. That's how you know it's real." She wasn't being poetic. She was teaching survival. Three generations of Hurts women and men poured everything into the people they loved — and the world poured pain right back. But they never stopped loving. Not once.
"The Beast didn't hide because he was ugly. He hid because he loved something so beautiful it terrified him. The rose under glass — that's every Hurts who ever kept loving when love didn't love them back."
This collection carries grandmother's name. Not as a brand, but as a bloodline truth. Every stitch holds the weight of family dinners where we laughed through grief, of front porches where grandmama told stories while pressing creases into Sunday shirts.
The Fit
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$75.00
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Limited Edition — 250 Pieces
Care + Craft
Care Instructions
Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. Do not bleach. Iron on low heat if needed — avoid direct contact with prints and embroidery.
Construction
Every piece is constructed with reinforced stitching at stress points, pre-shrunk heavyweight fabric, and solid-brass hardware. Built to last through real life.
Sustainability
We produce in limited runs to minimize waste. Every unsold unit is donated — nothing goes to landfill. Packaging is recycled and recyclable.