t Common Apparel, we create and sell skate and snowboard based clothing and goods. We pride ourselves on being a collective movement of friends who identify through skate, snow, film, photography and travel. This all started in 2010 as a high school marketing project by Nate Blomquist. Started off by working out of a basement, he took it on as a full time hobby.
Then in 2015, what started out as an old, dirty, and abandoned 7,000 square foot auto body shop, became something Duluth, MN had never seen before. The concept to keep overhead low was to create a skate co-op with Duluth’s first Skate Bowl, event venue, recording studio, and workspace for sewing and screen printing. This is where Colton Allen came on board to help focus on turning the hobby brand in to something bigger. We were able to host incredible events and make connections with so many incredible people and most importantly bring something to Duluth’s skate community that was missing. After complications with building codes, we had to move to move to a safer location, so we decided to keep it in the community and donate it to the skate park across the street at The Encounter Youth Center.
We currently reside at a brick and mortar store / headquarters in St Paul, Minnesota. Our next vision is to work with more shops worldwide and keep on growing the brand. It has been a crazy journey so far and all of the people we have met on the way have made it possible to be what our brand is today.
