RIP Industries / West LondonIndependent British skate / workwear
This is RIP

Real InProgress

Clothes for people who are still becoming. Built somewhere between skateboarding, workwear and the rest of real life.

Shop the good stuff How this started ↓
Tom, founder of RIP Industries
Tom / FounderWest London
Product first. Always.

The clothes have to be good.

Otherwise none of the rest matters.

RIP makes heavyweight tees, chore jackets, hoodies, caps and everyday staples. Good fabric. Strong shape. Embroidery where embroidery works. Print where print works. Graphics with enough roughness left in them to still feel human.

The goal is simple: make the thing you reach for again tomorrow.

FeelWeight, texture and structure you notice when you put it on.
DesignUnderstated until it needs not to be.
UseSkatepark. Workshop. Coffee run. Pub. School run. Repeat.
Close-up detail of a RIP Industries garment
RIP Industries founder Tom
No grand launch

Started in a garage.

RIP started in a garage in West London.

Life was heavy. Making things helped. One design became another. Then a small run. Then orders from people who seemed to understand what RIP was before we had fully worked it out ourselves.

That mattered.

So we kept going.

The bit that matters

Real In Progress.

Nobody has everything figured out. RIP is for the bit in the middle — making, messing up, changing direction, starting again and becoming a little more yourself.
Not perfectionProgress
Not performanceReal life
Not a finished versionStill becoming
Not a uniform for successA uniform for the work
The clothes aren't the story

The people wearing them are.

Real people. Actual lives. Skating, working, parenting, making, rebuilding, learning and getting on with it.

Brad skating
Brad, 38Still showing up.
Christian skating
Christian, 53Still pushing.
£1From every order supports CALM
Purpose, quietly

Mental health matters here. It isn't the merch.

RIP supports CALM through Work for Good. No guilt trip. No pretending a T-shirt fixes anything. Just a contribution built into every order, because proper support and proper conversation matter.

Why CALM?Work for Good ↗
Still building it

Good.

RIP is still close enough to the people wearing it to listen, change things and make the next drop better than the last one. That is exactly where we want to be.

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RIP Industries / West LondonReal In Progress