Fashion

[ALTRNTV]

I know there's already threads about kicks and clothing, but I wanted Zilvia's opinion on fashion as a whole nowadays.

Fashion isn't what it used to be. Back in the "old-school" days of hip-hop, all that mattered were your hat and sneakers. But now, you need a nice pair of kicks, jeans, shirt, and sometimes a hat, depending. I liked how it was back then, when everyone had a different sense of style, not like today, where everyone has to buy the latest "in" shoes or shirt brand, etc. There's no originality anymore, correct me if I'm wrong. People might wear different things, but all-in-all, it's all the same.

What happened to the days of the Adidas shirts and the Adidas Superstars, and that's all you needed, and you still looked fresh. I'm not ragging on anyone though, as I have sort of molded into today's sense of style (Dunks, "vintage" looking shirts and pants).

I also noticed that alot of the people that used to wear the XL shirts and extra baggy pants, are now wearing M shirts and the right fit pants. I guess it's this new fashion culture of today.

Thoughts?

Just to show you what I wear on a typical day:

http://www.zooyork.com/images/products/zoom/90948.jpg

http://www.cn8d.com/UploadFiles/200592103351580.jpg

[Edgar]

pretty cool style
i dress more like "i dont give a fuck style"
my jeans have hoes on them and are tight not too tight
i wear like pumas,chucks,

i never match

its just clothes to me

i have volcom,drift alliance,battle garage, plain grey shirts

fuck i need new clothes

[alexchanman]

I know there's already threads about kicks and clothing, but I wanted Zilvia's opinion on fashion as a whole nowadays.

Fashion isn't what it used to be. Back in the "old-school" days of hip-hop, all that mattered were your hat and sneakers. But now, you need a nice pair of kicks, jeans, shirt, and sometimes a hat, depending. I liked how it was back then, when everyone had a different sense of style, not like today, where everyone has to buy the latest "in" shoes or shirt brand, etc. There's no originality anymore, correct me if I'm wrong. People might wear different things, but all-in-all, it's all the same.

What happened to the days of the Adidas shirts and the Adidas Superstars, and that's all you needed, and you still looked fresh. I'm not ragging on anyone though, as I have sort of molded into today's sense of style (Dunks, "vintage" looking shirts and pants).

I also noticed that alot of the people that used to wear the XL shirts and extra baggy pants, are now wearing M shirts and the right fit pants. I guess it's this new fashion culture of today.

Thoughts?

Just to show you what I wear on a typical day:

http://www.zooyork.com/images/products/zoom/90948.jpg

http://www.cn8d.com/UploadFiles/200592103351580.jpg

i agree. this is how i dress as well. the big T shirt thing styarted maybe 3 or 4 years back when i was still in high school. i never got into it but i have been into sneakers for a while now.

[Tenchuu]

yeah the i don't give a crap style is mostly what i go for, but you really need to be able to bust out the buisness profesional when needed, also i just got some late charges taken of my vidieo account because i was wearing a bad ass gernade t-shirt. so sometimes it might pay off haveing 1/2 way decent stuff

[justinhustle]

i own a wholesale clothing company

so if you kats want dope shizz

shhhh ;)

[FaLKoN240]

I'm diggin the Melvins

[SochBAT]

Damn, im one bland mofo. My roomie collects dunks, and he's the only one here that likes em. My bro n sisters all think they're ugly as shit and they don't match crap. And i agree.

NormalClothing Nice blank teeshirt, fitting jeans, and NikeSB Classics. I don't treat the shoes like gold, i wear em like SHOES.

Damn sneaker heads.

[exitspeed]

Man I'm old school too. Back in my b-boy hay day, you wouldn't catch me without the newest color adidas suit and shell toes. Really, I was ready to battle anyone at any time. Straight up. In the mall, at the park, what ever. That sounds funny to me now, but that was my life. People that know me knowadays crack up when I tell them about that stuff.

Now, besides work were I've worn a shirt and tie for the last 6 years, I wear pretty much what you said. Tighter pants and vintage style shirts. I'm still all about Puma's and Shell toes though. I still wear my Adidas suits though everyonce in a while when the weather is right. As soon as I put it on though, I wanna start up-rockin.

[S13SilviaGirl]

my jeans have hoes on them


:keke: haha that just sounded funny to me...:rofl:

[SiI40sx]

Man I'm old school too. Back in my b-boy hay day, you wouldn't catch me without the newest color adidas suit and shell toes. Really, I was ready to battle anyone at any time. Straight up. In the mall, at the park, what ever. That sounds funny to me now, but that was my life. People that know me knowadays crack up when I tell them about that stuff.

hahaha they could SO make a family guy clip off of that. :hyper:

[2iv0 sx]

White n BLACK tees (pro club) all day every day...

[ALTRNTV]

NormalClothing Nice blank teeshirt, fitting jeans, and NikeSB Classics. I don't treat the shoes like gold, i wear em like SHOES.

Damn sneaker heads.

Cheat FTW! lol

I saw those red/black SB's at your house, wondered who they belonged to. I liked the SB's you had on also *ahem* sneaker head :coold: hahaha

I have 2 pairs of Dunks I really don't mind getting dirty, but I have 2 others that I take are of, my Melvins and my Supremes.

About the XL shirts I used to wear, I don't really know why I wore that, it looked cool back then I guess. Now that I look back on it, it looked gay as hell.

Man I'm old school too. Back in my b-boy hay day, you wouldn't catch me without the newest color adidas suit and shell toes.

I used to rock those everyday also, especially my all-white Superstars.

http://www.rs-sports.co.uk/images/FOOTWEAR/ADIDAS%20SUPERSTAR%20WEAVE%20'B'.JPG

You know a huge difference I noticed? In high-school, it was a must to get all-white shoes, you know, to keep clean and stuff, but once I got out of high-school, the all-white shoe trend died down, and I started getting multi-colored stuff, mostly Dunks.

I'm getting more and more into Vans slip-ons. They're cheap ($40) and I really wouldn't mind about getting them dirty, as I can always buy a new pair for cheap.

[A Spec Products]

fashion is what you make of it

i just dress how i feel, comfortably but still try to stay fly where u can

if u keep it real and don't follow others then you end up creating your own style and outward appearance

stussys the only real mainstream brand i will cop and wear

i think like 75% of tees i own are all stussy

the worst part of sneaker culture unoriginality was the supreme box cap, supreme box t in black, with camo cargo shorts and dunks haha

i totally wanted a box supreme t tho :(

[ALTRNTV]

i just dress how i feel, comfortably but still try to stay fly where u can


Bingo. I'm not like those people who HAVE TO look fly at all times. I'm not ragging on them, that's cool and all, but that's too much.


if u keep it real and don't follow others then you end up creating your own style and outward appearance

That's true too Logan, but it's hard to nowadays, but I still try to be o-rig-in-al.


the worst part of sneaker culture unoriginality was the supreme box cap, supreme box t in black, with camo cargo shorts and dunks haha

i totally wanted a box supreme t tho :(

Hahaha, I had those... :p

[A Spec Products]

Bingo. I'm not like those people who HAVE TO look fly at all times. I'm not ragging on them, that's cool and all, but that's too much.

That's true too Logan, but it's hard to nowadays, but I still try to be o-rig-in-al.


I've come to the conclusion that nothings truly original, just a manifestation of stuff you've previously seen/encounted before

Staying with "fashion" is impossible, takes too much money and time :(

At least for guys styles don't change too much by seasons and years, so you can still rock the same tee from 2 years ago and get away with it

[ALTRNTV]

Staying with "fashion" is impossible, takes too much money and time :(


Word. Just like our car hobby... :hyper:

[sncs14]

Plain colored t-shirts, medium-dark blue jeans, skate shoes or black rainbows. On really hot days I'll wear a pair of shorts instead of the jeans. I stopped buying name brand shirts about 5-6 years ago. I used to ride BMX a lot and shirts tore and stained really easily so now I just buy the haines 50/50 for a couple bucks a piece and don't worry if they get messed up.
My girlfriend bought me a bunch of collared shirts but I usually only wear them to work.

[ManoNegra]

Wells said. Nothing is original unless you're busting out the sawing machine and making your own shit. haha
People tend to stick with whatever fashion sense they developed in High School from my experience.

[Edgar]

:keke: haha that just sounded funny to me...:rofl:

its true they are all messed up
my cucks are all old looking i wear them everywhere

[phreze]

Yes to stay up with fashion you need mega $$$$ but if you create or own style, a timeless style, you will always be fashionable. I rock lacoste, d & g, prada, gucci, versace, and diesle, most bought before I started dropping every dime into my car. Not affraid to bust out my origin or hks tees thou.

I never buy what is in just what I like, I even still wear ecko clothes, that items that fit anyway xxl tees look weird on me now that im a m.


manonegra - WRONG! LOL, I wore vinyl pants with 40inch bottoms in highschool, and skateboard company tees

[A Spec Products]

People tend to stick with whatever fashion sense they developed in High School from my experience.

My jeans got smaller in size since high school

I used to be Baggin Saggin Barry back in HS and now straight cut is where its at.

Speaking of clothes, I just phone ordered some tees from the boys at Kicks / HI:

http://www.kickshawaii.com/new/brand/image/01.jpg

Magnum and Higgins, can't get more OG than that. Rockin the Kicks fitteds too, hard.

http://www.kickshawaii.com/new/brand/image/03.jpg

Match my orange Vans tropical slip ons. Holla.

[woodchuck]

whats up with those designer jeans like seven and lucky? i thought only chicks wear that stuff. my gf and i were at the mall and she pointed out these thugged out dudes saggin oversized seven jeans. don't they have shonjon or bufu for that gangsta stuff?

[SimpleSexy180]

haha simoun, vans > dunks. jk

im glad the "style" is to have fitted clothes.

Exceptions for those guys that wear those pro clubs thats made for a 500 pound man.

but all i need is vans,jeans,and a size medium t-shirt.

[Pank]

i have a few pairs of diesel jeans, a few express jeans, a few other designer jeans and about a thousand walmart black tshirts.

spend the money on pants, cheap the fuck out on the t-shirts

also, everyone needs at least one pair of camo shorts and velcro shoes.


scenester fashion for the win

[SimpleSexy180]

^puahaha scene ftw

[ManoNegra]

That Santa Cruz Screaming Hand t is pretty cool.
I hear a lot of kids - mostly skaters - are into skin tight jeans now. wtf?
I used to and still like to wear regular fitting jeans but a couple of sizes bigger. Goes back to my graffitti days.

[SimpleSexy180]

yeah they're girl pants, which to me is totally a trendy thing right now. And the punk look is also comming back big time. I see these kids walking around in black skin tight pants with chains,mohawks with some type of ramones or old punk bands t-shirts.

[usdm180sx]

fashion is what you make of it

i just dress how i feel, comfortably but still try to stay fly where u can

if u keep it real and don't follow others then you end up creating your own style and outward appearance

stussys the only real mainstream brand i will cop and wear

i think like 75% of tees i own are all stussy

the worst part of sneaker culture unoriginality was the supreme box cap, supreme box t in black, with camo cargo shorts and dunks haha

i totally wanted a box supreme t tho :(

It's kinda funny how stussy's making a comeback. It used to be popular in the late 80's early 90's. I still have a few 10 year old stussy tee's. I remember the story behind it: Shawn Stussy started selling shirts out of his garage somewhere in the OC and somehow he got hooked up with Nordstrom's. Then the brand disappeared for the past few years. Now my 15 year old niece is hittin' up stussy sales and now it's supposedly popular with the younger crowd...again kinda funny

[sushimonster]

what comes around goes around....
stussy, fred perry, le tigre... 70s, 80s, 90s i wonder what would be next??? hopefully not some space suits
Fashion isn't what it used to be. Back in the "old-school" days of hip-hop, all that mattered were your hat and sneakers. But now, you need a nice pair of kicks, jeans, shirt, and sometimes a hat, depending. I liked how it was back then, when everyone had a different sense of style, not like today, where everyone has to buy the latest "in" shoes or shirt brand, etc. There's no originality anymore, correct me if I'm wrong. People might wear different things, but all-in-all, it's all the same.



i think you werent very aware of the fashion scene back then correct me if im wrong but people would always want to buy the hot commodity be it fashion or not... i think fashion is more diverse now... you have more choices of stuff to wear... you have streetwear fashion and other so called fashion scene out there... whats important is how you feel about your clothes... its not what you wear but how you wear it

[Mr. Camshaft]

white t-shirt
http://www.sunshinejoy.com/images/T-Shirts/S1110.jpg
Levi's 505
http://www.boscovs.com/wcsstore/boscovs/images/store/product/images/063654252005050574.jpg
Black dunks
http://www.hypebeast.com/archives/nike_sb_blackpack.jpg
my uniform

[SochBAT]

I think the one awesome thing about the the Van's SlipOns is that you can jsut doodle on them to make them personal.

i've wanted to cop a pair just for this reason.
And my buddy's GF does alot of girlie doodles on hers, so that makes it a little more awesome. I was thinking of collab-ing with her to make some shoes for me.

Hers =

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j192/soshit1/DSC03455.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j192/soshit1/DSC03454.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j192/soshit1/DSC03452.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j192/soshit1/DSC03451.jpg

[LB.Motoring]

^ theres no way, its too good, plus sometimes i still see white stiching under the colors....

anyways I got my vans on but they look like sneakers? what a promo song hahahhahaha

http://hk.geocities.com/yau_rachel/vans_shoes_men3.jpg

[undesiredshoe]

i own a wholesale clothing company

so if you kats want dope shizz

shhhh ;)

hook me up yo!

[MrBrightSide]

All over printed shirts/sweater/jacket, Raw dry denims, and well... shoes pretty much depends on the indivudual... (sbs, air max, vans, jays, etc) that pretty much sums up todays street fashion scene

[ALTRNTV]

I was never too into the J's. I never bought one pair, and probably never will. I'm not a huge fan of his anyway.

These are what's next on my list. Not too rare, but I still want them.

http://www.pickyourshoes.com/images/shoes/dunk_sb_lo_hunter_3.jpg

Forbes baby!

[SochBAT]

^ theres no way, its too good, plus sometimes i still see white stiching under the colors....

anyways I got my vans on but they look like sneakers? what a promo song hahahhahaha

http://hk.geocities.com/yau_rachel/vans_shoes_men3.jpg

Way. IIRC, she sued acryllic markers, and the stitching is still new, so its kinda shiny still. Flashing Glare.

There were a few other people that made those custom shoes, but some were too cliche' and ugly.

Myspace.com/tatshoes

[exitspeed]

I used to rock those everyday also, especially my all-white Superstars.

http://www.rs-sports.co.uk/images/FOOTWEAR/ADIDAS%20SUPERSTAR%20WEAVE%20'B'.JPG


I always rocked the black with white striped. Since theyr were my main breakin shoe they got ef'd. I wasn't too worried about'em getting dirty.

I still have my first pair of them that I learned how to break in. I wore them for years and years just when I was breakin. I'ma post some pics of them now. Now their like slippers.

[ManoNegra]

Stussy, Jimmy'Z, Mossimo, Fresh Jive, Hang Ten... all those brands had a little revival in the late 80s early 90s but then they went mainstream at Macy's, Nordstrom etc and stopped being cool. Anybody remebers T&C with Joe Cool, Thrilla Gorilla and those surfing cannibals? That was my first 'fashion' obsession back in Junior High. All the philipino kids used to rock them with the pants folded up early MC Hammer style... lol.

[blackalicious95]

forever rockin 20 dollar pants, skate shirts and skate shoes.

the vans are cool but ever since that song came out, it seems like everyone and their moma has a pair in every color.

I want some old skate shoes to come back out like the original Keenans and the Kareems that Duffs made.

[the head]

Puma driving shoes (speed, future and kurb cats FTW)
Still have my first pair of Vans old skools from Junior high and they are still the most comfortable shoes I own. Also have two pair of snake skin steve maddens which I love.

for me it varies on the night...ripped or faded denim always beat up t-shirts some deisgner stuff (seven, dkny, 525, zenaga, armani, D&G, prada, etc.) go from suits to punk and everything in between...I wear what I like and I like what I wear.

[SimpleSexy180]

I was never too into the J's. I never bought one pair, and probably never will. I'm not a huge fan of his anyway.

These are what's next on my list. Not too rare, but I still want them.

http://www.pickyourshoes.com/images/shoes/dunk_sb_lo_hunter_3.jpg

Forbes baby!

what is that carpet looking stuff on those shoes.

[SochBAT]

^^^ weird thing is, its part of the shoe.

weird.

Look at me! I'm nike! I'm going to use the same design, but instead use ______ skin on the outter, and throw some leather on it, and use flashy seizure colors on them! The key to making money is to back it up with a known company and make them limited to 3000! WOoohooo!!

[ALTRNTV]

Look at me! I'm nike! I'm going to use the same design, but instead use ______ skin on the outter, and throw some leather on it, and use flashy seizure colors on them! The key to making money is to back it up with a known company and make them limited to 3000! WOoohooo!!

Hey, it makes money right? :bigok: lol

Here's a pair my homegirl just bought me last week from the mall.

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/358/img008oy5.jpg