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I would never spend hundreds of dollars on clothes. I may be liberal, but I spend my money conservatively.
anyway, my point is, I hate when people knock us for wearing casual clothes. The people wear buisness suits to corporate and bank type work. but in general, the whole laid back, casual attitude is what the appeal is and it's really what sets the mood and tone for the city. I would be very sad if it was fast paced and in your face cause that's just not my thing and the charm of SD just wouldn't be the same as it is now.
I'm breathing BV lol. I'm just ranting but not about you.
ok. I'm done. bye. =p
Last edited by BacktoBlue; 09-30-2010 at 11:25 PM..
In my opinion, New York, San Francisco and DC are the best dressed cities. I say this because in all of these cities there is a great sense of individualism in everybody's style. Yeah, you have trends in all of these cities, but not everyone dresses the same at all. Cities that have no real style have uniforms or swaths of people in outdated frumpy clothes. Baltimore has too much of a uniform to be a fashionable city. Every kid from the hood in Baltimore looks like the mannequin from the American Eagle window with a pair of matching New Balance 992's.
However, all cities have good and bad local trends and signature looks. I'll even break down the terrible trends for the most fashionable cities I listed:
1.) D.C.- When I first moved to the Baltimore/DC Area back in the 90's, D.C./PG hood dudes were rocking slouch socks to their knees with cut off jean shorts with sleeveless t-shirts and t-shirts with hoods attached. They also wore clothes from tacky nationally unknown local brands like Da Link Went, All Daz, We R One, Shooters and HOBO (Helping Our Brothers Out). Cheap looking glue and sparkly lettered snap back hats were also popluar back then in the D.C. area along with t-shirts featuring Warner Brothers characters. They also used to wear the ugliest Nikes that looked like moonboots:
The hood crowd in D.C. definitely has stepped it up in recent years though. Wale is one of the best dressed rappers out for his style. And Wale is a good representation of the average well dressed nouveau urban style cat in D.C. His sneaker game is ridiculous.
Conservative White folks in D.C. sometimes dress very tacky. During the springtime in Georgetown can be a fashion trainwreck with Ivy League/Old money looking White folks wearing bright lime green blazers or chinos paired with bright pink oxfords. Some of these people wear the worst Ralph Lauren and J. Crew pieces.
2.) San Francisco- The hood crowd in San Francisco can be very much behind the times in terms of urban fashion. Many hood dudes in SF and the Bay Area still wear tall tees and super baggy Girbaud shuttle jeans with the straps. They stopped wearing those things on the East Coast in 2002-2003. Also, the hood in SF has always embraced weird hairstyle/folicle trends like all types of shags, mullets, mongolians, rat tails and braided/platted up beards.
Also, because the weather in SF stays roughly between 50-75 degrees during the year, some people wear the same clothes day in day out all year long.
3.) NYC- As some folks have previously stated on here, some New Yorkers in the hood are stuck in the 90's. They will always wear Yankee fitteds with regular 6" tan Timbs all year round. And I've seen a lot of New York dudes even rock leather Yankee fitteds on 80-90 degree days in June and July. A lot of hood folks in NYC still rock excessively baggy jeans and old leather Avirexes from the 90's and early 2000's too (not the new Pelle Pelle's that come out every year either). I've seen some people in Brooklyn still wearing 90's brands like Phat Farm and Mecca USA this year.
On the flip side, some people are way too out there with experimental fashion in New York and end up looking like complete tools. Although there are some of the most fashionable people in the world in NYC, the city is undeniably a prime breeding ground of try-to-hard epic failure in fashion trendsetting. I know NYC is the city of diversity, but some of these outfits are just way too over the top:
This one is beyond words. Exercise caution when looking at the outfit in this link:
1.) D.C.- When I first moved to the Baltimore/DC Area back in the 90's, D.C./PG hood dudes were rocking slouch socks to their knees with cut off jean shorts with sleeveless t-shirts and t-shirts with hoods attached. They also wore clothes from tacky nationally unknown local brands like Da Link Went, All Daz, We R One, Shooters and HOBO (Helping Our Brothers Out). Cheap looking glue and sparkly lettered snap back hats were also popluar back then in the D.C. area along with t-shirts featuring Warner Brothers characters. They also used to wear the ugliest Nikes that looked like moonboots:
The hood crowd in D.C. definitely has stepped it up in recent years though. Wale is one of the best dressed rappers out for his style. And Wale is a good representation of the average well dressed nouveau urban style cat in D.C. His sneaker game is ridiculous.
Conservative White folks in D.C. sometimes dress very tacky. During the springtime in Georgetown can be a fashion trainwreck with Ivy League/Old money looking White folks wearing bright lime green blazers or chinos paired with bright pink oxfords. Some of these people wear the worst Ralph Lauren and J. Crew pieces.
In reference to the old DC styles.....we might have worn all that but was still fresh as Sh$t f..u talkin bout? thats when everything was original when everybody else was following New York
Lets not forget how New Yorkers use to rock FUBU, Pele Pele, Sean John, Rockawear, Apple Bottom, and the list goes on and on lol. I never understood how they could be the fashion capitol but at the same time still come up with CHAMP a** clothing lines like those smh... none of those clothing lines made it anywhere near the DMV boarder lol!!! I remember how we use to flame NEW YORKERS when they came to DC because they were all just lame to us and for the most part still are. Never the less NY is the Fashion Cap. and yes a lot of them can actually dress at times lol!!!
so with that being said my list would go!
NE= Philly easily (They're fly and the most consistent which is something NY'er dont understand. You cant just be fly one day and then be Bummy for the rest of the year and still consider yourself fly lol)
In reference to the old DC styles.....we might have worn all that but was still fresh as Sh$t f..u talkin bout? thats when everything was original when everybody else was following New York[/quote]
Lets not forget how New Yorkers use to rock FUBU, Pele Pele, Sean John, Rockawear, Apple Bottom, and the list goes on and on lol. I never understood how they could be the fashion capitol but at the same time still come up with CHAMP a** clothing lines like those smh... none of those clothing lines made it anywhere near the DMV boarder lol!!! I remember how we use to flame NEW YORKERS when they came to DC because they were all just lame to us and for the most part still are. Never the less NY is the Fashion Cap. and yes a lot of them can actually dress at times lol!!!
so with that being said my list would go!
NE= Philly easily (They're fly and the most consistent which is something NY'er dont understand. You cant just be fly one day and then be Bummy for the rest of the year and still consider yourself fly lol)
Mid Atlantic= DC of course.
South= ATL
yea keyword "USED TO". you seem to love nyc a lot which is why you give your long paragraphs on us huh?
bets are you probably could never come up here with your 2011 still rocking northface coats self. you would come up here knowing what would be in store for you.
hopping on the subway and feeling itchy because all the nyc girls would laughing at a dude rocking northface in 2011.
you talking about nyc "used to" used to?? get with the times nyc got flyer peeps then DC, and if you want to we can have a video battle right now to prove which city got more fly people.
In reference to the old DC styles.....we might have worn all that but was still fresh as Sh$t f..u talkin bout? thats when everything was original when everybody else was following New York
Exactly[/quote]
And to make this battle more interesting ill ask my home girl right now via text who lives in pg county what some of the hot styles are in dc right now. lol.
lmaoo @ wale rocking bb belts. something us new yorkers wear. but off coarse dc people think we are bammas
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