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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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
Anyone got a solid definition for "streetwear" or is it just a- if you have to ask you wouldnt get it sort of thing
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.
streetwear is apart of my culture so yes
Some of my outfits I wear I'd say is influenced by it
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I think all my fits are streetwear but idk how to define myself tbh
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I would also like to know the definition of eggtart
Streetwear is the clothes you wear on the street.
I think its like an actual food
Real talk no its basically undefinable, and the edges blur heavily at times.
For me when I think of street wear, I think a lot about hip hop/ rap, as well as Chicano culture
I just think of it as that some items i wear are very heavily associated with streetwear
ALD is generally considered streetwear but puts out looks that could also be called Ivy for example
In my mind, it’s stuff that looks cool with sneakers
Rick can sit on the line of avant guarde and streetwear as well
It's like a baked custard
because he makes cool sneakers
I wouldn't go that far
Egg tarts are such a great invention
'It goes with sneakers" is easy to disprove
Yah timberlands and Dr martens are iconic streetwear boots for example
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
I should have said I meant it as a heuristic I guess
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.
noted, it just looks very different from what I was seeing 8 years ago or so
I mean thats just one type, also stuff like this still exists and is big
We need a sociologist to do an academic book on streetwear from the word usage to where it is today
its just broad lol
They just wear essentials now lmao
This is probably already a thing
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.
I admire the Chicano fashions like workwear, big tshirts, long shorts, nikes, but to look at on others
Like pop culture
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I agree
I may need recommendations. What's good?
I have no clue
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I just feel like a lot of things are sociological but we don't realize
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.
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
I mean that's interesting, I like weird facts when it's backed up
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
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.
streetwear is like porn
u can't define it but u know it when u see it
Oh thanks, will check out that link
If I wanna dap u up it’s streetwear /end of discussion
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
lol
kinda real tbh
Yeah that’s real ass hell
If your outfit makes me want to shake your hand that’s not Streetwear
Sneezing on my hand to make my outfit streetwear
“Down ass foo” core
Or at least I know that u can dap me up properly
Even if I don’t dap u up
It’s the option
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 
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
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.
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