In Your Opinion What Cities Have Been Fashion Trend Setters and Fresh On A Consistent Basis?

Patrik1tha1 said:
Not the "states"... Just the tacky urban community. Leather sleeves on shirts etc. that stuff is tacky.
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No, your statement isn't blanketed at all...
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Azul Rolex said:
Leather joggers had a good run thanks to ye

But the VIM sweatsuits with the leather elbows and knees were basura
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Word. I be seeing dudes rocking that BS with a ponytail under the over-sized fitted and some J's, I be like View media item 2013386:
 
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numbah1grimey said:
Baggy jeans was more of a rebellious act. It last from like 92-2007. The era was not as long as people are lead to believe.
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Thats a whole generation b, and da majority of it with no internet? **** felt lonnnnng as hell. :lol:

Da problem wit da baggy era is it kept on getting more and more baggier...

Remember when folks used to clown Pharrell for dressing "too tight"?

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Lookin back? There was absolutely nothing wrong.

Da baggy era jumped da shark around 2004-2005 when cats was running around in white bathrobe sheet lookin shirts..


Look at dre from terror squad..od ridiculous.

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And look how fast it went back by 2007

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Only fat people can still pull off baggy and walk around in 2016..look at Khaled, he's been dressing da same exact size for a decade+

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Dressing baggy was as much portraying an alpha male as much as it was fashionable, thats why da trend endured as long as it did.

There were outliers, Hispanics from my hood from da island never bought into huge baggy jeans, Jamaicans weren't doing it either..
 
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ninjahood said:
So this explains kanye west?

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Yep. I'm telling you all that **** is just as much as Tom Ford suit, Kiton, Zegna etc. I know people find it hard to believe as the last 5 years you've seen an emergence of super fitted clothing. And that clothing is considered "grown" But you also  have off shoots of more urban influenced high end brands/styles. 
 
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Ziggy Chen this **** is $$$. I got a few pieces from my last job. Some straight nylon/linen shorts drop crotch run like $875 
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. I worked there so I had the joog but a lot of people don't want to look "urban" for so much. Broads like the fitted look anyway. But its all relative.
 
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People all over SoCal still dress like this.....

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But to a worse degree.... they wear MOTIVATIONAL tees that say SWAG or CALI

or some muted tone tee shirts and cons (how I typically dress)


but....... the fashion can change from The beach cities to LA to Hollywood and everywhere in between

Believe it or not that kid set that trend out here in CALI
 
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Hip hop/urban culture  has influenced 90 percent of  EVERYTHING. Semi srs. I used to tell the owners you know cats used to wear tall t's. They'd look at me in disbelief. the only difference now being its slightly more fitted and way more $$. 
 
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Gentrification said:
 
"Baggy" is in high fashion though. Just tad bit more refined.
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It's been appropriated and repackaged.

Back in the day, hustlers wore more fitting clothes when they weren't on the block.

When Regan's "Just Say No" campaign aggressively locked down on the drug trade, they started wearing looser clothes.

The purpose was to stash things and have less restriction when running from the police.

It became mainstream through hip-hop, and the break dancing aspect.

MC Hammer was the first person to popularize those drop crotch "joggers":

As the trend went more mainstream, clothes got baggier and baggier.

But they weren't made that way at first, rappers bought high-end designer clothes 2-3 sizes too big.

It was a sign of rebellion and ownership of a trend created by "the hood".

...wasn't until around 92 that baggy clothes were manufactured. Mostly by brands that catered to the urban demo.








As silly and homophobic as this sounds, gay men wore tighter clothes back then, especially to the club.

So it became the norm to measure masculinity and fashion sense by how loose your clothes were. 

If you wore baggy clothes, it meant you got block money and wasn't a "square". Tighter clothes indicated 

you only hung out where it was socially acceptable.






 
 
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Gentrification said:
 
Hip hop/urban culture  has influenced 90 percent of  EVERYTHING. Semi srs. I used to tell the owners you know cats used to wear tall t's. They'd look at me in disbelief. the only difference now being its slightly more fitted and way more $$. 
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All i see is 90% of rappers with the same Salvatore Ferragamo belt with a t shirt just short enough to show the logo on the buckle. 
 
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CAbased said:
Gentrification said:
 
Hip hop/urban culture  has influenced 90 percent of  EVERYTHING. Semi srs. I used to tell the owners you know cats used to wear tall t's. They'd look at me in disbelief. the only difference now being its slightly more fitted and way more $$. 
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All i see is 90% of rappers with the same Salvatore Ferragamo belt with a t shirt just short enough to show the logo on the buckle. 
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Ya man. It's to the point where hip hop fashion is like a costume. Everyone looks the same. I like how the guy beside him is wearing the same shirt 
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I feel EVERYONE looks the same though. Even the fitted/side part j.crew wearing cats. It's all relative though...I mean hip hop has always taken "white" brands and freaked them in their own way. 

The older I got the more I got into the high end streetwear ****. A few years ago I would've scoffed at the idea of wearing baggy clothing again. I used to get **** altered to a T. But rock what makes you comfortable. 
 
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CAbased said:
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Ya man. It's to the point where hip hop fashion is like a costume. Everyone looks the same. I like how the guy on his left is wearing the same shirt :lol:
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To be fair, all recent cultures have identifying descriptors which are either created or co-opted and rechristened as such.
 
ninjahood said:
To be fair, all recent cultures have identifying descriptors which are either created or co-opted and rechristened as such.
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Oh of course. Skaters, hipsters, street wear dudes, everyone is starting to look alike. Social media is turning people into sheep.
 
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