Nit-picking aside, though, the Pendleton board shirt has remained a legend for almost 70 years for a reason: It’s good. The Beach Boys might not have stuck with it, but on my charts ...

In fact, the Pendleton shirt was so ingrained into the culture at the time that the Beach Boys were originally called the Pendletones. Pendleton still makes that same design, called the Board ...

WATCHING THE TRAILER for “Love & Mercy,” a biopic about the Beach Boys’ frontman ... khakis and a Pendleton Woolen Mills plaid shirt.

Case in point, the Beach Boys were originally known as the Pendletones, a name that was inspired by the Original Surf Plaid Pendleton shirts that were a staple of the 1960s surfer culture.

The Beach Boys (L-R Carl Wilson ... This name was a play on musical “tones” and Pendleton shirts, which were considered, at that time, to be the “surf uniform” for beachgoers.