You could say this was a great year for the Costa Mesa sportswear company RVCA; then again, you could have said the same for each of the past five. But 2005 was the year the company put its money where its mouth was, diversifying nicely into industrial categories as disparate as bail bonds and low-end couture while somehow cementing an already solid rep as one of the pillars of the Orange County action sports scene. (Full disclosure: they recently sent me a brown... More >>>