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The brand was established in 1984 in Sydney, and initially began as a screen-printing project featuring graphics by local artists and musicians.  \r\n \r\nMambo is characterised by its humorous, often political, and outrageous social commentary artwork, and has since collaborated with over 250 artists. The brand is recognised for introducing artistic design and a light-hearted humour into surf-wear, which was typically logo-focused and absent of humour. \r\n \r\nMambo was often sold in surf and skate shops in the 1980s and continues to be up until the present day. Typically, this type of boardshort would have been worn by surfers, or skaters who commonly adopted surfer-inspired clothing. The printed cotton shorts feature a comical design of roosters and crocodiles in a landscape of rural Australia, with telephone poles, campervans, houses, cars, trees and the moon. 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