Crosswire Tee — Bone
8.6oz combed cotton
$68
DROP 14 · FRIDAY 10AM ET
SEASON — FW · "CROSSWIRE"
WEAR IT
FAST. MOVE FASTER.
Bolt is a streetwear label that runs on weekly drops. Drop 14 — "Crosswire" — is twelve pieces of heavyweight cotton, screen-printed graphics, and one cut-and-sew jacket. It lands Friday and it does not wait around.
CROSSWIRE
CAMPAIGN — FW "CROSSWIRE"
Shot on the overpass, 6AM.
PHOTOGRAPHY — DARIUS OKONKWO · CREATIVE DIRECTION — MAYA TROST
THE DROP — LIVE COUNTDOWN
DROP 14 LANDS
FRIDAY, 10AM ET.
TIME UNTIL "CROSSWIRE"
REMINDER OPEN02
DAYS
14
HRS
36
MIN
09
SEC
The list shops 60 minutes before the public. No password, no raffle — just be on it before Thursday midnight.
Past drops
13 SHIPPED · ALL SOLD THROUGHWe don't reprint. Every drop is its own run — what's gone is gone, and the archive stays here so you can see what you missed.
THE COLLECTION — DROP 14
TWELVE PIECES.
ONE FRIDAY.
Heavyweight cotton, water-based screen prints, boxy cuts. Sizing runs XS–XXL. Two pieces below already cleared the early-access window.
Volt Arc Hoodie
14oz brushed fleece
$145
Service Cap — Black
6-panel washed twill
$52
Static Long Sleeve
9.2oz heavyweight jersey
$84
Overpass Jacket
Ripstop nylon · taped seams
$268
Grid Tee — Volt
8.6oz combed cotton
$68
Crew Beanie — Acid
Ribbed merino blend
$48
Relay Shorts — Slate
12oz cotton terry
$76
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LOOKBOOK — FW "CROSSWIRE"
SHOT ON THE
SERVICE ROAD.
Eight looks photographed across two mornings — concrete, chain-link, and the volt seam that runs through the whole season.
LOOK 01
VOLT ARC HOODIE · STATIC LS
LOOK 02
DETAIL — STITCH
LOOK 03
LOOK 04
FLAT-LAY — CAP
LOOK 05
OVERPASS JACKET · RELAY SHORTS
SEASON CAPTION — FW "CROSSWIRE" · 8 LOOKS · MORNING LIGHT
THE POINT OF VIEW
WE DON'T DO
SEASONS.
WE DO FRIDAYS.
Bolt started in 2021 as a folding table outside a record store in Queens. One design, forty tees, screen-printed in a friend's garage the night before. It sold out before noon. We've never figured out how to make that feeling last longer than a Friday, so we stopped trying.
Now we run on a fourteen-day cycle. Two weeks to design it, prototype it, print it, shoot it — then it drops, and it's done. No carryover, no "core line," no warehouse full of last year. The constraint is the point: it keeps the work sharp and it keeps us honest about what's actually good.
We're not the cheapest tee you'll buy and we're not pretending to be heirloom tailoring. We're heavyweight cotton, a strong graphic, a fair price, and a community that shows up every other Friday at 10AM. That's the whole brand. It's enough.
14
DROPS SHIPPED
24,108
COMMUNITY MEMBERS
11min
AVG. SELL-THROUGH
2021
FOLDING TABLE, QUEENS
CRAFT — FABRIC & MAKE
HEAVY COTTON.
HONEST MAKE.
Streetwear-honest, not luxury-precious. Here's exactly what goes into a Bolt piece — the weights, the print, the cut-and-sew.
THE COTTON
8.6–14oz, combed and ringspun.
Tees are 8.6oz combed cotton — heavy enough to hang straight off the shoulder, soft enough to wear day one. Hoodies are a 14oz brushed fleece that breaks in over a month and never goes thin at the cuff.
THE PRINT
Water-based screen, hand-pulled.
Every graphic is screen-printed with water-based inks at a shop in Newark — no plastisol, no heavy hand-feel. The print sits in the fabric, not on top of it, so it cracks the right way and ages with the tee.
THE CUT & SEW
One built piece per drop.
The Overpass Jacket is fully cut-and-sew — ripstop nylon, taped seams, a storm flap and a two-way zip. It's patterned from scratch, sampled three times, and made in a run of two hundred. When it's gone, the pattern retires with it.
SPEC
8.6oz tee body
14oz fleece hoodie
Water-based ink
Pre-shrunk, washed
XS–XXL full size run
OVERPASS
THE CUT-AND-SEW PIECE
THE OVERPASS
JACKET.
The piece the whole season is built around. A boxy ripstop shell with a volt-taped internal seam, a high storm collar, and pockets sized for a 7-inch sketchbook. It's the only Drop 14 piece that took three months instead of two — and the only one made in a run this small.
- FABRIC
- Ripstop nylon, 2.1oz
- MAKE
- Cut-and-sew, taped seams
- RUN SIZE
- 200 units, no reprint
- PRICE
- $268
THE CAMPAIGN FILM
SIX MINUTES.
ONE OVERPASS. NO CUTS.
We shot the "Crosswire" film as a single unbroken take at first light — twelve people, one service road, the city waking up behind them. Watch it Friday alongside the drop.
Watch Friday
A FILM BY DARIUS OKONKWO · CREATIVE DIRECTION MAYA TROST · SCORE BY THE 6AM CLUB
STOCKISTS & AVAILABILITY
MOSTLY ONLINE.
SOMETIMES IN PERSON.
Drops go live on boltgoods.com first. A handful of boutiques carry leftover stock the week after — if any survives.
Find us in eight cities.
New York, Chicago, London, Berlin, Toronto, Tokyo, Melbourne and Mexico City carry post-drop stock. Stockists never get early access — same as everyone else, the list shops first.
FIT — TEES
Boxy, true to size. Size down for a slim fit; the 8.6oz body holds its shape either way.
FIT — HOODIES
Generous through the body and sleeve. Take your normal size for an oversized look.
FIT — OVERPASS JACKET
Roomy by design, built to layer. Full XS–XXL run with a measurements chart on each piece.
THE COMMUNITY — DISCORD
24,108 PEOPLE
WAITING ON
FRIDAY.
The Bolt Discord is where the drop actually happens. Every other Thursday night we post the full lookbook, sizing breakdowns, and the print files for the next day's graphics. Friday at 9AM the early-access channel unlocks — the list shops a full hour before the public.
- Thursday 8PM — the next drop's lookbook posts in #the-reveal.
- Friday 9AM — #early-access opens for the list — one hour head start.
- Friday 10AM — public drop. #fit-pics fills up by lunch.
EARLY-ACCESS LIST
Get on the list. Shop first.
One email every other Thursday — the lookbook, the drop time, and your early-access link. No spam between drops, no password games. Just a head start.
24,108
MEMBERS & COUNTING
+612
SINCE DROP 13
FAQ
STRAIGHT
ANSWERS.
The five questions we get every drop week. Anything else — ask in the Discord.
When's the next drop?
Drop 14 — "Crosswire" — goes live this Friday at 10AM ET. After that we hold a strict every-other-Friday cadence. The countdown at the top of this page is the real one; the early-access window opens for the list 60 minutes earlier, at 9AM ET.
Why does everything sell out?
Because we make small runs on purpose. A drop is whatever we can design, print and ship in a two-week cycle — usually a few hundred units per piece, never more. We'd rather sell through fully than carry dead stock into the next drop. Last drop's average sell-through was eleven minutes.
Do pieces restock?
No. Once a drop sells out, it's done — no reprints, no "back in stock" emails. The graphic and, for the cut-and-sew piece, the pattern, retire with the run. Occasionally a boutique stockist gets a small post-drop allocation; that's the only second chance, and it's first-come.
How does early access work?
Join the early-access list — the email signup on this page, or the Discord. Be on it before Thursday midnight and you get an early-access link that unlocks the full drop at 9AM ET, one hour before the public. No raffle, no bots, no paid tier — being on the list is the whole mechanism.
What's the return policy on a drop?
Unworn pieces can be exchanged for a different size within 14 days of delivery, while that size is still in stock. Because runs are small we can't always swap, so check the measurements chart first. Anything that arrives faulty is on us — full refund or replacement, no questions.
DROP 14 · FW "CROSSWIRE"
DON'T MISS
THIS ONE.
Twelve pieces, one cut-and-sew jacket, no reprint. It lands Friday at 10AM ET — and the list shops at 9.
FRIDAY · 10AM ET · EARLY ACCESS 9AM FOR THE LIST