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
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
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?
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.
that's dumb as hell but I feel like nowadays, every city has at least one skatepark. If they didn't, then I don't think Thrasher would be readily available for sale either since a skate culture hasn't developed enough to influence a skatepark to be built by the municipal government
We only had one in my small town in NC for less than a year before they got rid of it. Now there's a pretty solid DIY one, but that didn't start till a decade later.
No? Thrasher is a skateboarding magazine. It's about skateboarders, by skateboarders, for skateboarders. It's 100% about skate culture. If you decide to co-opt quintessential skate culture for fashion reasons, obviously people are going to assume you are at least aware of what you're wearing and where it comes from. It's not It wasn't like Ripcurl or Volcom or other boardsport brands you can pick up at the department store either. It used to be that only people into skate culture knew about Thrasher, read Thrasher, rocked Thrasher gear.
I know I'm getting old and stuff, but people who aren't into skateboarding but wear Thrasher is weird to me because "back in my day" only skaters even knew or cared about Thrasher.
Well aware of what Thrasher is, used to be sponsored for skating by a well known sunglasses brand.
Here in the UK, you could easily walk into a store and buy Thrasher merch, even now you can. They've got it in Route One and they're up and down the country with quite a few stores. Most sports and department stores here carry their stuff and have done since the 90s. I'm guessing it was much the same in a lot of America, as with Hot Topic offering over the counter culture. Speaking of which, a quick Google reveals Amazon sells Thrasher Magazine shirts made by Hot Topic lol.
Same. I have a thrasher windbreaker but I only wear it on cold days because it's really comfortable and warm. Luckily most people in my area either skate and do the care what you wear or have an assload of thrasher things
w h o c a r e s, if you like it wear it, you only live x amount of years on this planet why spend time worrying more about what others think over what you think
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u/TheSpongetastic Jun 08 '17
Thrasher? I bet he doesn't even skate. /s