The Progression of Streetwear: From Urban Day to Today

Robinson Dan
Jul 21, 2017 · 3 min read

Streetwear has been a hot product for about 30 years now, and there’s a clear reason as to why that is. The youth of these days always want the right type of fashion, wearing specific brands or types of clothing is a enormous way to go about expressing yourself. Everybody has something to express, and doing it through the use of clothing has never been easier. Streetwear has pretty many urban roots, and when you realize how far it’s come you’re probably going to be shocked. Everything has to start from the ground up, even something as large as streetwear. This industry gives everybody a voice, and it gives hope to designers who feel like they’re about to make that big break. It wouldn’t be this way if the past hadn’t paved a way for the present, and that’s exactly what this article is going to talk about. There isn’t a specific historical event that would mark the making of streetwear. In fact, nobody really knows when it was initially introduced into the world. One thing is for sure though, streetwear is taking the world by storm (and it’s probably going to stay that way for the foreseen future).

This is where streetwear started to thrive much more than usual, because the music started coinciding with it. When you blended hip-hop with streetwear there was literally a super-drug created, and that super-drug was a lifestyle that everybody wanted to live (or at least look like they were living). The music scene that hip-hop was building allowed the clothes to really resonate within communities, and people started dedicating their lives to the stuff. People would develop designs for snapbacks of their very own, and puffy coats were also very high in demand (you probably couldn’t walk a mile or two without seeing some shell-toe Adidas, which I still wear today). Le Coq Sportif was literally at its highest peak in the 90’s as now it’s a brand you barely hear of; ask anybody who was a teenager in the 90’s and they’ll let you know about it. Record labels started hopping onto the bandwagon, and as a result there was a lot more money being put into these particular ventures. Rappers started to become clothing moguls, a trend that you see continuing today; and everybody else just wanted a piece of the pie.

In conclusion, streetwear had to start somewhere; and the fact of the matter is that it was destined to grow. As a human race we’re always going to look for ways to go about doing things differently, that’s what makes us so unique. If we did the same stuff and wore the same clothes throughout the years, there simply wouldn’t be any innovative things happening. We owe it to ourselves to progress as quickly as possible, no matter what we’re progressing in. Streetwear has allowed many people to go about expressing their artistic values through clothing, and it’s going to continue to do so all the way until a new trend comes along. That’s probably going to take a long time, though, so don’t think that we’re going to be holding our breath.

Time passes and styles change, but streetwear will never die, especially Off-White Clothing UK. It might not look the same, and it might not even feel the same at some point; but you know exactly what you’re getting into. The history of streetwear is relatively deep though, but the information is very scarce; this article is probably just scratching the surface of what we need to know!

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Robinson Dan

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