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Dickies x Thrasher: Diesel Time

Dickies x Thrasher: Diesel Time
5 min read Oct 2025 by Harry Stephens
Franky Spears Grey Crewneck

Workwear specialists Dickies come together with skateboarding’s principal magazine Thrasher for the Diesel Time collection. The apparel capsule combines Dickies’ blue-collar heritage with Thrasher’s raw aesthetics, delivering hardwearing pieces in time as the weather begins to bite.

Jake Hayes Brown Zip Up Ronnie Sandoval Judo Tailslide

Now considered an essential brand in most skateboarders' wardrobes, this collaborative collection leans heavily on Dickies’ hardwearing, heavyweight pieces, but remixed with special features and cobranded detailing for a rugged, skateboard-focused collaboration.

Dickies x Thrasher: A Short History

Most in the know will be aware of just how ingrained these two powerhouses are in the skateboard industry, but for the less informed of you, here is a short history of the two brands, and why this recurring collaboration is a match made in skateboarding heaven.

Vincent Alvarez Noseslide Transfer

Starting as a small business in 1920’s Texas, making bib overalls, Dickies was started for the American worker. Built with quality, grit, and quiet pride, Dickies has grown from a small Texan outfit to a worldwide distributor of some of the highest quality workwear out there, made for the mechanics, the skaters, the carpenters, and the artists.

Ronnie Sandoval Switch Crook

Skaters first took note of Dickies skate-ready workwear in the late 1980s, notably in Southern California, the epicentre of skateboarding culture. A time of shifting meaning in the skateboard world, from punk and rebellion to a DIY ethos that Dickies seemed to epitomise. What Dickies offered skateboarders of the ‘80s and ‘90s was affordable but durable apparel with rugged, versatile aesthetics. As with most things in skateboarding, Dickies blue-collar clothing was repurposed to tackle the strain and punishment that skateboarding threw at it.

Ronnie Sandoval Lien Air

Thrasher Magazine would first appear some 60 years later in San Francisco, starting out as a promotional tool for the Independent Truck Company. From there, Kevin Thatcher, Eric Swenson and Fausto Vitello established it as the definitive voice of skateboarding; a central pillar of the industry, celebrating the raw, rebellious spirit of skating. Its first issue in 1981 saw Thrasher celebrate the underground and DIY aspects of skating with gritty images and stories, an approach which resonated with skaters at the time, and still to this day. Authenticity was at the heart of Thrasher’s success.

Franky Spears 360 Flip

Together, both Dickies and Thrasher represent two important players in modern skateboarding’s formation, and this capsule celebrates the authenticity of both and their drive to keep raw, real skateboarding alive.

Diesel Time

The Diesel Time collection features some of Dickies’ most recognisable pieces, seared with Thrasher’s iconic branding for an assortment of skate-ready staples. Dickies clothing remains rooted in its blue-collar heritage, leading the way in resilient and stylish streetwear. This collection showcases classic hardwearing pieces which nod to one of skateboarding’s legacy brands.

Guy Mariano Vest Franky Spears Workshirt Back Hit

The collection includes a Painter Eisenhower Jacket; canvas vest with bespoke printed lining; double knee utility pants for durability, in both black and brown duck; a relaxed fit, short sleeved Work Shirt with bold embroidery on the back; as well as accompanying tees, hood, sweat, and fisherman-style beanie. All feature co-branded detailing, a uniting of the Dickies horseshoe logo and Thrasher’s iconic branding, with other nods to skateboarding’s raw legacy, including a barbed flannel lining found throughout the collection.

Guy Mariano Shirt Backhit Jake Hayes Beanie Logo

Dickies X Thrasher's "Diesel Time" Video

Accompanying the collection, an edit full of some of skateboarding’s hard hitters. Vincent Alvarez, Mike Anderson, Jamie Foy, Guy Mariano and co. go to work in the collab collection for a powerful cut you won’t want to miss.

Explore the Dickies x Thrasher collection at Route One.

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