Based in Irvine, California, Billabong, famous for Billabong Boardshorts, is surrounded by stylish people with a love for looking good around town, on the beach, and in the mountains. This year, the Billabong line of hardgoods and softgoods incorporates multiple Billabong technical innovations with sleek styles and prints that distinguish Billabong boardshorts and Billabong clothing from their competition. Whether it's Billabong boardshorts, Billabong technical gear or Billabong street wear, each piece represents the unique Billabong culture and classic Billabong logo.

The new winter line of Billabong jackets, Billabong boardshorts, and Billabong pants feature multiple advancements in technology to ensure nothing is less than perfect for riders. The Recco avalanche system, YKK waterproof zippers, and taped seams all enhance Billabong jackets to help it perform better in the backcountry. Select Billabong jackets have Sleeve Pass Pockets which provide a safe and secure place to store your ticket to ride. In addition, Billabong jackets have a multi adjustable hood that will provide full protection during the harsh winter winds that everyone should get out and experience.

A full line of Billabong boardshorts and Billabong clothing for both men and women give another reason for you to look even more bad ass. Billabong hats, Billabong Boardshorts, Billabong beanies, and Billabong belts all rock on and off the mountain. Billabong bags make life a bit easier for traveling between destinations. Billabong purses give a sweet alternative to the ordinary with new age prints, Billabong logos and funky styles.

Billabong boardshorts are a great choice for surfers, wake boarders, and other water adventurers. Billabong boardshorts offers a comfortable fit combined with funky plaids, graphics, and other hardcore designs that make you look like you know what you're doing, even when you don't. This year the men's line of Billabong boardshorts are using a fast drying, supreme suede fabric. The women's Billabong boardshorts provide distinguishable patchwork and stitching designs.

But where did Billabong boardshorts originate? During the late 60s and early 70s, the surfing lifestyle meant getting in your Kombi van packed to the rafters with surfboard, surf maps, tents and sleeping bags and heading to the coast for the classic surfing safari.

In 1973 Gordon and Rena Merchant began producing handmade Billabong boardshorts under their flat overlooking their beloved Burleigh. These Billabong boardshorts were tough as teak, able to withstand not only the elements, but also able to absorb the sort of punishment that local juniors Guy Omerod and Rabbit Bartholomew would put those first issued trunks through.

For those humble beginnings, the Billabong logo was born.

Gordon buried himself in his North Burleigh factory for the next few years and Billabong clothing gradually made ground on the more established labels. His no frills, practical approach to the Billabong boardshorts manufacturing paid dividends, as Billabong clothing grew steadily until his little homespun factory literally burst at the seams. By the early 90s, Billabong surf clothing had well and truly assumed #1 status in Australian waters and had further consolidated on the International Scene.

Leave it to Billabong clothing to figure out a way to combine fashion and function. With their vast collection of amazing street and technical gear, Billabong clothing can outfit anyone for any adventure.