Remember when boys wore flame-print bowling shirts at the school disco back in the heady days of the '00s? Like its cousin, the tropical shirt, they've had a bad rap over the years. But now they ...

The Nat Nast label itself has a story. Nat Nast was a real person who began his bowling-shirt business in Kansas City, Mo., in 1946, and the shirts eventually became popular with collectors.

Dave Pringle, of Camillus, had his family crest put on his bowling shirt at the 2018 USBC Masters. During qualifying, geometric designs in vivid neon colors were popular.

Of course, the women are showing off the back of their shirts, embroidered with the name of their sponsor for that year, Mettle’s Coffee Shop. Mettle’s was a teeny place run by the Mettle ...