Style Highlight: Streetwear - Topic of the day 1/7/24

Is this your style or your style at times? How do you feel about this style? Inspo pics would be greatly appreciated too.
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iambic
iambic10mo ago
I was mildly interested it it, until about age 37 then I lost interest in sneakers and graphic tees. I just got into mature styles
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Anyone got a solid definition for "streetwear" or is it just a- if you have to ask you wouldnt get it sort of thing
Smiles
Smiles10mo ago
Streetwear is too broad to define but its easily the most influential style in the last 30 years. Lo heads in the 90s, Y2K styles that are making a comeback right now, skinny jeans of the 2010s, or the current vibes its impacted almost every other fashion aesthetic and has exerted increasing influence on the runway and high fashion in general. Its also how the majority of people get into fashion, and how most younger people want to dress.
ultra
ultra10mo ago
streetwear is apart of my culture so yes Some of my outfits I wear I'd say is influenced by it 🤔
eggtart!
eggtart!10mo ago
I think all my fits are streetwear but idk how to define myself tbh
ultra
ultra10mo ago
eggtart
eggtart!
eggtart!10mo ago
Overlord
jibba
jibba10mo ago
I would also like to know the definition of eggtart
Smiles
Smiles10mo ago
Streetwear is the clothes you wear on the street.
ultra
ultra10mo ago
I think its like an actual food
Smiles
Smiles10mo ago
Real talk no its basically undefinable, and the edges blur heavily at times.
ultra
ultra10mo ago
For me when I think of street wear, I think a lot about hip hop/ rap, as well as Chicano culture
eggtart!
eggtart!10mo ago
I just think of it as that some items i wear are very heavily associated with streetwear
Smiles
Smiles10mo ago
ALD is generally considered streetwear but puts out looks that could also be called Ivy for example
jibba
jibba10mo ago
In my mind, it’s stuff that looks cool with sneakers
Smiles
Smiles10mo ago
Rick can sit on the line of avant guarde and streetwear as well
eggtart!
eggtart!10mo ago
It's like a baked custard
s stands for nothing
because he makes cool sneakers
Sal
Sal10mo ago
I wouldn't go that far
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Egg tarts are such a great invention
Smiles
Smiles10mo ago
'It goes with sneakers" is easy to disprove
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Benji
Benji10mo ago
Yah timberlands and Dr martens are iconic streetwear boots for example
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Question- years ago I made a strong association of Streetwear with hype culture, is this still prevalent? Its clear to me that, for example what Smiles just posted, streetwear is much more broadly understood now
jibba
jibba10mo ago
I should have said I meant it as a heuristic I guess
Smiles
Smiles10mo ago
I mean it can associated with hype culture but its been mixed with and had influence on pretty much ever asthetic under the sun at this point. Also what I posted is hype culture lol, 5 out of 6 of those photos are from ALD lookbooks which is probably the current most hyped streetwear brand.
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noted, it just looks very different from what I was seeing 8 years ago or so
Smiles
Smiles10mo ago
I mean thats just one type, also stuff like this still exists and is big
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iambic
iambic10mo ago
We need a sociologist to do an academic book on streetwear from the word usage to where it is today
Smiles
Smiles10mo ago
its just broad lol
eggtart!
eggtart!10mo ago
They just wear essentials now lmao This is probably already a thing
Affluence
Affluence10mo ago
Streetwear went from a very specific counterculture style to one that broadly influenced all of fashion. So if you were trying to define it in the same way as it’s early days, that would simply be impossible.
iambic
iambic10mo ago
I admire the Chicano fashions like workwear, big tshirts, long shorts, nikes, but to look at on others
eggtart!
eggtart!10mo ago
Like pop culture 💀
ultra
ultra10mo ago
I agree
iambic
iambic10mo ago
I may need recommendations. What's good?
eggtart!
eggtart!10mo ago
I have no clue 😭 I just feel like a lot of things are sociological but we don't realize
jibba
jibba10mo ago
I'd imagine streetwear aesthetics vary significantly by location, more than most style categories. Living in a small industrial city in the northeast US, I rarely see ALD lookbook stuff, instead of the kinds of clothes in the topic image.
eggtart!
eggtart!10mo ago
Like I found out a few months ago someone wrote a research thesis on asian americans and how they see raving as an aspiration to whiteness
iambic
iambic10mo ago
I mean that's interesting, I like weird facts when it's backed up
Nayyyyy
Nayyyyy10mo ago
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37820/1/BMER_5_438.pdf 🙂 tbh you don't need to be a sociologist for this stuff. you have fashion studies itself as a thing. plus crossover with lots of other disciplines. iirc the guy who wrote a book jeans was an anthropologist. nearly got him to do an ask-me-anything on reddit then he flaked lol
AndrewA
AndrewA10mo ago
For me skate and hip hop fashion are definitely streetwear but I think it gets into gray areas fast. I’ve think it can be location and person dependent too. Like a 40 year old suburban dad in Indiana wearing a fleece and jeans with new balances is probably not streetwear but a 24 year old man in New York City wearing the same thing might be.
artvandelayimporting
streetwear is like porn u can't define it but u know it when u see it
iambic
iambic10mo ago
Oh thanks, will check out that link
sharloy
sharloy10mo ago
If I wanna dap u up it’s streetwear /end of discussion
SteezeTrain
SteezeTrain10mo ago
I feel like people get too focused on a few seasons of trend cycles from a specific era and say "This is streetwear" It's kinda like music imo. Things change, flow, borrow from older eras, try new things It's so regional and time specific it's probably why it feels so nebulous to describe
sinbad
sinbad10mo ago
lol kinda real tbh
imbadatusernames
imbadatusernames10mo ago
Yeah that’s real ass hell If your outfit makes me want to shake your hand that’s not Streetwear
artvandelayimporting
Sneezing on my hand to make my outfit streetwear
imbadatusernames
imbadatusernames10mo ago
“Down ass foo” core
sharloy
sharloy10mo ago
Or at least I know that u can dap me up properly Even if I don’t dap u up It’s the option
imbadatusernames
imbadatusernames10mo ago
Random thought but I think one thing that confuses a lot of people is that Streetwear brands like stussy and supreme venture into tailoring but because of their prints and styling it can be Streetwear Like I didn’t get interested into suits until I saw supreme skaters wearing them and realized the versatility of xdxd
Spuck
Spuck10mo ago
yeah hugely, specifically once you look outside the US I kind of think streetwear is things that bubbled up from people wearing them, rather than filtered down from posh people/catwalks/what have you. But bear in mind I cannot back this up and am very srupid
Woolf
Woolf10mo ago
I used to skate in the 00s as a teen and was into post hardcore/emo music etc so it was definitely apart of my look back then. I never fully went into the Hot Topic look just skater-lite. Then into jeans and a tee shirt from 20-32. I can't imagine myself dressing like that at all anymore. I lean into smart casual so no thanks. I'll leave it to the younger folks and the young at heart.
raisinpie
raisinpie10mo ago
I don't have anything to add that hasn't been said already. To me streetwear is skate, hip hop, pop culture (e.g. marvel), punk/counterculture, and now also social media, which is so nebulous and it's back to square one
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