Upside Down Pineapple

Once an innocent REMO T-shirt design, now a secret symbol for swingers

By 1990 the REMO General Store in Sydney was already well known for its diverse range of T-shirts designs, representing the unique talents of artists and thinkers from all over the world. That year Beth Bartholemew, a designer from Brooklyn submitted an idea for an upside down pineapple, and accompanied her artwork with the following musings:

“Why do con…