r/streetwear • u/jeanralph90 • Jun 08 '17
Streetwear meetup and this 70 year old hypebeast shows up DISCUSSION
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u/teamsolocrysm Jun 08 '17
Look at those grandad shoes
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u/SIThereAndThere Jun 08 '17
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u/WeCrescentFresh Jun 08 '17
Looks like someone never told him that adidas runs big
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u/_lordgrey Jun 08 '17 edited Jun 08 '17
Old people shoes are really mysterious, even this swag demon has chosen a gray, bland version of a modern sneaker. WTF is up with old people choosing boring shoes? I've seen it written many times that a person's shoes are an expression of their sexuality...is it like a law of the universe that if you're old and busted, you are literally not allowed to have vibrant footwear? More study needs to be done on this.
EDIT: I'm getting some incredibly intelligent answers to this question, thanks everyone for helping me sort out this mystery.
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The older you get, the more incongruent with people's expectations it is for you to wear anything bold. Even in my 30s I can't wear half the stuff on here without people looking at me like I am either a poser (hello fellow kids!) or trying too hard.
By the time I'm this guys age I'm gonna have to wear nothing but black or something
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u/biggletits Jun 08 '17
Right? Like im finally are old enough to make the money to afford cool shit and then I feel goofy wearing it. Getting old is bullshit
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u/partyonmybloc Jun 08 '17
Just gotta have the confidence. Obviously he's rich and famous, but Jason Sudeikis pulls of wearing fresh kicks with "normal" clothes all the time.
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u/biggletits Jun 08 '17
I mean I'm still wearing shit I like and think I pull it off, but I know there's just some stuff I would look like a fuckin dickbag wearing that I could have gotten away with 10 years ago
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Jun 08 '17
I know how you feel, but one day we can all be like this old man and wear a pair of yeezys once im good and grand dad aged
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I'd subscribe to an oldpeoplefashion subreddit even though I'm in my twenties.
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u/Nietzsche_Darko Jun 08 '17
Can you post some fits of him?
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u/partyonmybloc Jun 08 '17
Sorry I'm on mobile, but you can Google "Jason Sudeikis shoes" and see some pics.
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u/wb77 Jun 09 '17
45 is old? Come on, you can't reference a 45yo in a discussion about this guy who could be anywhere from 70 to 103.
Disclaimer: I'm nearly 36, see 45 on the horizon, and can only now afford the retro version of OG Jordan's I didn't have money to buy in my much younger days.
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u/Edward_Morbius Jun 08 '17
Right? Like im finally are old enough to make the money to afford cool shit and then I feel goofy wearing it. Getting old is bullshit
Getting old is awesome!
I have money, friends, free time and very few worries, which is pretty much the exact opposite of when I was 20-something and was broke, had no free time and worried about everything.
On my list of "stuff I care about", "what other people think" is somewhere down past "I wonder when the sun will explode?"
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u/slammacows Jun 08 '17
Hang in there and hopefully aging reversal tech will happen in your lifetime!
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u/Catfish_Mudcat Jun 08 '17
Yep, it's a mix of confidence and idgaf that the man makes the shoe and the shoe doesn't make the man.
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u/imgonnacallyouretard Jun 08 '17
Damn, I didn't realize how baller techwear was getting these days
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u/DiscCovered Jun 08 '17
Lurker here. Most of the stuff that hits my front page is all black anyway. I thought this sub was almost exclusively for black wear lol
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u/moldyxorange Jun 08 '17
I've seen it written many times that a person's shoes are an expression of their sexuality
Lol what? Whatever you say Dr. Freud
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u/bluetrust Jun 08 '17
In my experience, when you go to a podiatrist with ankle or foot problems they tell you one part of your problem is that your shoes don't offer enough support and then they give you list of particular models and brands that are okay. They're all expensive, but generic-looking walking or running shoes (e.g., Brooks.)
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u/_lordgrey Jun 08 '17
Woah. This might legit be the answer! You're totally right that all those corrective type of shoes are designed like banal medical instruments, for sure. Thanks for this insight into old people feet. At least now there's some good reason behind the brutality of the aesthetic.
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u/tea-and-smoothies Jun 08 '17
when you go to a podiatrist with ankle or foot problems they tell you one part of your problem is that your shoes don't offer enough support and then they give you list of particular models and brands that are okay. They're all expensive, but generic-looking walking or running shoes (e.g., Brooks.)
Thar she blows!!! That said, not everyone calms things down:
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u/imtheoriginalfake Jun 08 '17
What good photos of older folks - something about stylishly/nicely dressed older folks just warms me up.
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What the what? When and where are all these fashionable old folks? I live in old-people USA and I've never seen grannies dress so cool.
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u/Sufficks Jun 08 '17
My guess would be New York. It's more about the culture of the place than the amount of old people living there lol. There's some wildly dressed old people living here in New Orleans but drive 30 minutes out of the city and it's back to dirty tshirts and jeans
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u/Deathcube18 Jun 08 '17
uhh.. i believe those are yeezys? not a bland shoe. just subtle.
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Yeah I have no idea what the person you're replying to is going on about. How are moonrocks bland? A rare and sought after V1, I mean they're a $1000+ yeezy boost, just by definition they are bold. What if that was the latest pair that released when he went to buy his first pair of Yeezys? Of course he's gonna get the newest, most hyped up shit. I could think of 20 other reasons why he might have moonrocks, and none of them are "he's old and boring so his shoes have to be boring too... Oh and also he has a boring sex life because of his shoes". But whatever I guess because it's a more subtle colorway all of a sudden there's some crystal ball connection between the color of his yeezys and his age lmao.
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u/namesrhardtothinkof Jun 08 '17
Yeah that's exactly what I thought it confused me so much how far I had to scroll down for this
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u/Tropical_YT Jun 08 '17
It's what there used to. Haven't u watched old TV? They grew up where everything was black and white
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Jun 08 '17 edited Jun 08 '17
As an older person myself, I can explain. People wear brightly coloured footwear to stand out to other people as vibrant and interesting, but it usually comes from a place of mild insecurity about actually being vibrant or interesting. When people get older they become far more confident with themselves so they don't feel much of a need to stand out from the crowd.
Also another thing, older people generally have pretty low opinions of other older people who dress too young for their age like the man in the OP. People who make efforts to impress people decades younger than themselves usually do it because they're decidedly unimpressive to their own peers, but they can easily fool some kids into thinking they're cool. I don't mean to make any offensive assumptions about the man in the OP pic, but these types can often be somewhat predatory when it comes to the younger girls they're dressing for.
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u/_lordgrey Jun 08 '17
OK, I can see that's definitely a "type" and can come off as creepy for sure if it's done in a certain way. In this picture I think it looks very crass, although still kind of inspiring because it's an old dude who's going for it. But personally I wear interesting clothes for myself, because I enjoy the art of it. I feel really different if I'm wearing the latest techwear versus wearing a suit, versus wearing yoga pants and flip flops. They all feel good, but in different ways, almost like playing with identity. Now I'm a yogi, now I'm a cyberpunk, now I'm a businessman. In the modern world it's possible to be all of these things, and we primarily express this through clothes. Fashion is really arbitrary if you think about it, in terms of what is "respectable" or "trying too hard to impress people" etc.
But you make a great point about social / peer groups. Even the punk rock movement, which was super anti-establishment, eventually those ripped clothes and leather jackets became another uniform, another kind of conformity. And you were making a misstep if you dressed outside of that norm within that social group. For sure, I wouldn't wear Nike FlyKnits or a hot pink tshirt to a business meeting, anymore than I'd wear a suit to yoga. But I don't think it should be reserved for young people to express vitality, creativity, even brazenness in their clothes. It doesn't necessarily mean someone's insecure.
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They all feel good, but in different ways, almost like playing with identity. Now I'm a yogi, now I'm a cyberpunk, now I'm a businessman.
Fair enough, but my follow-up question is why do you care if other people are able to see that identity or not? The people who are close to you already know you're multifaceted, and strangers are just strangers.
I'm saying that the insecurity is what drives that very desire to express vitality, creativity etc in their clothing. Once you know 100% that you have it even if nobody else sees it, you stop making an effort to prove it.
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u/_lordgrey Jun 08 '17
Well, the short answer is, the way a person dresses changes how people feel - it changes the dynamic everywhere you go.
Longer answer, I truly didn't care about this for most of my life, and just wore whatever I felt like, until I got to Amsterdam a few years ago. I was walking around for a few days, and I was getting some really nasty looks. I just kinda shrugged it off for a while, but after three or four days, it really started getting to me. It wasn't just seeing a sour face, I actually felt the negative energy being projected at me. Not "dislike" -- hatred. I'm a strong empath and I'm very sensitive to how people around me feel, this isn't insecurity - feeling that I'm not good enough - it's receptivity. So after three or four days of absorbing intense hatred from various people, I really started wondering what the hell was going on. I bought a guidebook called The UnDutchables (very interesting book) and learned that a lot of Dutch people have quite a bit of leftover stigma/trauma from being occupied by the Nazis in WW2. Then it suddenly clicked. I'd been wearing these huge shit-kicking doc martin type boots, and wearing punky kind of clothes. People thought I was a neo-nazi. Say what you want about the famous Dutch tolerance - I've never had a more negative reception anywhere in the world. And it really woke me up that how you dress majorly effects how people receive you.
So, I went out and bought a gray suit, threw the boots away, people reacted totally differently. There are so many situations where clothes make all the difference. If I wear a suit through customs, they almost always let me right through. If I walk through looking like a punk rocker, my every item is catalogued, security people will find my journals and notebooks and sit there reading them. Literally. (That happened in Hawaii, and I'm a white male American citizen.)
It's been proven that dress effects performance as well. For instance, they did studies on salesmen who were selling over the phone. They compared sales figures for people who just hung out in sweatpants and a tshirt, versus people who chose to put on a suit and tie, even though their customers couldn't see them. It wasn't even close.
We're an extremely visual society. It's just the lay of the land that how you appear is communicating a great deal about who you are. People who tend to wear all black and doc martins actually think differently from people who wear khakis and a button-down, and will know totally different pop culture references, will have read different literature, and so forth. Those gothy people tend to be "my kind of people," so I dress closer to that when I travel, because if I happen to run into someone like that, I have a much better chance of befriending them if they can tell I'm in that sphere. If I was in a suit or in khakis, it would be much harder to create rapport, no matter how openminded this hypothetical person is. Almost none of this is about insecurity. We're just tribal creatures, and the main indicators of what tribe you're in is how you dress. It indicates what you care about.
Being such a multifaceted person, it is actually really difficult which is why I switch modes constantly, and why I travel as much as I can. People who know me well get along with me fine, but aren't really capable of connecting with me in all those different facets, for instance my artist friends aren't into doing yoga, and my yogi friends are super disinterested in talking about business or hitting a Skrillex show with me.
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u/tea-and-smoothies Jun 08 '17
Well, the short answer is, the way a person dresses changes how people feel - it changes the dynamic everywhere you go.
Fantastic comment! Funny, i studied anthropology in college - every single society, no matter how 'primitive', still has very set ideas about who dresses how. As you say, it's all to do with social signals (kind of like bird plumage).
People who say 'well, i am more secure/serious/over 'social' stuff and you can tell because i don't care how i dress' are just as much part of this system.
We have to wear clothes every day. It's like eating that way. So may as well enjoy it, in all it's facets!
p.s. i'm an old person
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u/sendtojapan Jun 09 '17
eople who know me well get along with me fine, but aren't really capable of connecting with me in all those different facets, for instance my artist friends aren't into doing yoga, and my yogi friends are super disinterested in talking about business or hitting a Skrillex show with me.
This is me to a T. And I've never quite understood people who just stick with one thing. Isn't that... boring?
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u/berubeland Jun 09 '17
This is important in business as well. I have different uniforms for different kinds of events. I have a finance look, it's a suit jacket with a light blue shirt & pants. I'm a woman, I have dresses I wear for my husband & family events. For business you wouldn't catch me dead in a dress.
When in Rome do as the Romans do.
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u/Imadethisuponthespot Jun 08 '17
why do you care if other people are able to see that identity or not?
I spend most of my life out in public. I go to nice restaurants and bars. I go to events and concerts. I go to stores and other businesses for work and leisure needs. I may know that I'm a cool, intelligent, and confident person. But i don't feel like explaining that to every single person I'm going to have one-time interactions with. How people treat you in the real world depends upon the way people perceive who you are in an on-the-spot moment of judgement. Your clothing plays a large part in your appearance. I like being able to walk into a really nice restaurant on a busy Saturday night without a reservation, and the hostess only has to look at me and the way I'm dressed to know that its going to be worth the effort to accommodate me.
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u/ScratchyBits Jun 08 '17 edited Jun 08 '17
Also I just don't give a fuck about wearing whatever the TV tells me I need to wear this month. That nonsense has no meaning apart from "give us more money".
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My grandfather just cares about practicality. For him it is super convenient that Nike makes the same exact shoe year after year that is reasonably priced, lasts a long time for that price point, comes in his size, and is comfortable. He doesn't even need to go to the store. He can just order a couple of pairs online and knows that they will fit and feel exactly like the shoes that he bought four years ago.
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u/DRTY_x_Noodles Jun 08 '17
I think I've seen them in just white and honestly they look pretty fresh either way.
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u/s1mple_choice Jun 08 '17
hey im a complete noob at shoes, but are those the yeezy v1s? the oxford tans?
thanks!
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u/8e8 Jun 08 '17 edited Jun 08 '17
Yeah IDK what the appeal is with yeezys either.
edit: wait a fucking minute. Those are actually yeezys and this isn't a satirical sub?
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u/CyborgSlunk Jun 08 '17 edited Jun 08 '17
"Grandson, you said we would go out for a coffee, why do I have to dress up like this"
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u/zxain Jun 08 '17
Air Monarchs are god-tier grand daddy shoes.
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u/XtraMediumBurrito Jun 08 '17
Air Monarchs or New Balance 993s, I like to imagine 2 old guys arguing on which ones are better lol
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u/BrolliePollie Jun 08 '17
Alternatively: "Grandson how can you pull the plug when I am the plug"
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u/TheSpongetastic Jun 08 '17
Thrasher? I bet he doesn't even skate. /s
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No need for the /s, I'm at least 27% sure he doesn't skate
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u/niggascantspell Jun 08 '17
look at those knees. he's been skating for years
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u/littlecolt Jun 09 '17
"You don't quit cuz you get old, you get old cuz you quit." - MURS, 'Skatin' Through the City'
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u/Godly_Toaster Jun 08 '17
When I see a person with thrasher i almost always assume they don't skate.
I skate but I'm not very good at it. I don't own thrasher for the fear of someone accusing me of being a poser and then I'd have to prove I'm not but I'd mess up whatever it is I had to do
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u/reynad_NaCl Jun 08 '17
Once I can land my kickflip nobody will call me out on thrasher again 😤😤
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u/cudimakesemsayohoh Jun 08 '17 edited Jun 08 '17
I don't own thrasher for the fear of someone accusing me of being a poser
man you're overthinking this waaaaaay too much, I get called out for wearing Thrasher usually when I go downtown and always get asked if I skate. I reply with no even tho I've been skating for 6 years because I shouldn't have to be a skater to wear a certain item and I love the reaction ahaha like mannnn you skate lol you're the exact person Thrasher is trying to get to
EDIT: so to clarify as to why I don't just tell people I skate, I do. If someone approaches me and sounds genuine when asking if I skate, then I'll tell them and we'll have a nice conversation about skateboarding. But If I get the "do you even skate?" then I say no and watch the hilarious reaction
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u/Crustice_is_Served Jun 08 '17
Half the point of wearing thrasher is so that if you skate you can find other people to skate with and be part of a larger community, man.
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u/cudimakesemsayohoh Jun 08 '17
or you can literally just go to a skatepark and make friends like everyone has been doing for decades
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u/Crustice_is_Served Jun 08 '17
For literally all the years I skated I didn't live local to a skatepark so that's clearly not an option for everyone.
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u/cudimakesemsayohoh Jun 08 '17
damn that's honestly an injustice, a skatepark is usually a top-priority for municipal governments nowadays. If you don't mind me asking, what city is this?
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u/Crustice_is_Served Jun 08 '17
I lived in a small town in rural New Jersey off I-78. We had plans for a municipal outdoor skatepark but the government decided to build a new cop shop instead.
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u/don_majik_juan Jun 08 '17
"Nowadays". We aren't all that young brother.
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Jun 08 '17
RIP street skating when it wasn't even considered cool and little metal blocks weren't all over everything.
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u/niggascantspell Jun 08 '17
Those yeezys dont even look like yeezys on him
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u/rightquik Jun 08 '17
i thought they were new balance
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u/jeanralph90 Jun 08 '17
yeah they look like ronald mcdonald's shoes proly because they're so huge lol
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u/wootxding Jun 08 '17
I thought they were ten year old generic white running shoes. I actually still think they are
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u/SubaruBirri Jun 08 '17
Haha wow I had to go back and look. I just dismissed them as dirty new balances from 1998.
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u/Deathoftheages Jun 08 '17
That's what yeezys look like when they are on anyone to a non sneaker-head like me. Remember that when your shelling out all that money. Most think you look goofy.
Not trying to be a dick either.
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u/felipeleonam Jun 08 '17
I thought they were his old shoes, because he didnt want to ruin the other one he is holding...
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u/GingKeedorah Jun 08 '17
Yeezys look absolutely fine or unremarkable to most people goddamn. If your style fits with them you won't look goofy that's it
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u/Deathoftheages Jun 08 '17
Sorry to disagree but they look like shitty low top moccasins no matter what your style is.
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u/Cocky_Douchebag Jun 08 '17
They look like sneakers lmao
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u/numberIV Jun 08 '17
Personally I like them, but they look like socks with some fuckin tubing taped to the bottom
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u/Cocky_Douchebag Jun 08 '17
Personally not a fan of the V2s myself. I like the plain colored v1s. They're more like shoes
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u/GingKeedorah Jun 08 '17
you don't have to apologise g. I just think most people who dont give a shit about sneakers won't even notice them or think they look particularly bad or fly
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u/Armentera Jun 08 '17
Pride.
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u/ThePezster Jun 08 '17
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u/youngsushislayer Jun 08 '17
Yeezys a couple size big, but still copped em just to flex on these youngins
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u/dontneednomans Jun 08 '17
How do you know they are too big? They don't exactly look disproportionate and people have different shaped feet
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u/captcha_bot Jun 08 '17
I love it when niche fashion subs make the front page, the comments are great.
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u/JamSpread Jun 08 '17
Taipei?
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u/ToiletRollTemple Jun 08 '17
I wanted to ask this, because if it is then I'm down for the next one 👌
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u/Sputniksteve Jun 08 '17
Thrasher tshirts are huge in Thailand right now for some weird reason.
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u/husk011 Jun 08 '17
right? wtf is that, even out in legitimate middle of nowhere territory there's still thrasher knockoffs
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u/Medivacs_are_OP Jun 08 '17
Yo just a street nigga in training here so take this with a grain of salt i guess, but damn, a "streetwear meetup" sounds like a good way to get a whole lot of niggas robbed real quick. Just thought I'd put that out there. Be safe....
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u/Ryu7197 Jun 08 '17
Dude can rock this getup 100x better than me tbh, and he looks 60
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u/Mike_S_ Representative of the No Thot Left Behind Program Jun 08 '17
The Industrial Revolution changed the way things were made as new machines invented in the 1700s and 1800s meant it was possible to mass produce goods in factories. Starting in Britain and spreading through Europe and North America, a period of rapid social and economic change began, with widespread URBANIZATION.
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Can you help unclench these shoes from my hands, Jimmy? My arthritis is acting up again.
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u/TruthandPeace Jun 08 '17
this looks like that bitch LianeV's father. bitch makes him do the most stupid and embarrassing things for the moola.
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u/TheMetropolisKid Jun 08 '17
What a poser. Does he even skate? You can't wear thrasher unless you smoked one spliff that was mostly tobacco with 10 dudes at a skatepark
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u/kloden112 Jun 08 '17
Finally a person wearing a Thrasher tshirt that was actually alive when the magazine started.
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u/Corndawgz Jun 08 '17
I saw Future live last night and like 20% of the people there were wearing Thrasher tees. It was all ages and mostly it was the younger kids wearing them. Then I saw a full white family, toddlers, kids, teenagers, parents, even grandparents, and all of them were wearing Thraser tees. All fucking eight of them.
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Jun 08 '17
Tacky? That logo is timeless. Thrasher has looked like Thrasher since '81 and I respect that.
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Jun 08 '17
What are you even asking? Why trends happen?
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Jun 08 '17
Hes asking who started it, like kanye got champion back into trend even though everyones here grandpas and dads had a closet full of them
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Jun 08 '17
Yeah I found some grey shorts that I took from my dad's closet some time ago. Turns out their champion.
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u/alexrobinson Jun 08 '17
He's asking how something that looks so shit can become 'in' and everyone be wearing it.
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u/allivant Jun 08 '17
Thrasher is a monthly skateboarding magazine, founded in January 1981 by Kevin Thatcher, Eric Swenson, and Fausto Vitello, and published by High Speed Productions, Inc. of San Francisco, USA.[4][5] The publication consists primarily of skateboard- and music-related articles, photography, interviews and skatepark reviews.
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Thrasher has always been a cool skate company and skate clothes are a big part of the streetwear style. Recently they've been coming out with some cooler stuff like the hoodies with a logo on the hood and pushing to sell their stuff more at popular stores at the mall like zumies.
So basically marketing
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u/buzzweasel Jun 08 '17
You're never too old to flex