Clothing brands you used to wear back in the day you wouldn't be caught dead in now...

[Max.]

Ecko
Obey

 

[calixprynce]

I remember seeing white and black dudes rocking these weird ass anime short sleeve button ups back in like 99-2000.

Atrocious
Lol I remember copping an orange one from the flea market when I was like 9/10 years old and I never wore it once.

samurai shodown lol Yeah my dad had a silky one with dragons and samurais or some shyt all over it ,

 

[Max.]

Roca wear

Old navy polos

 

[Givethanks]

Anyone remember those shirts that would have some cartoon character smoking weed on the front?

Any NYers remember wearing wooden rosaries

My guy the way I wanted the young jeezy snowman but I couldn't find it anywhere

 

[Unknown Poster]

All over hoodies

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

Yup YGz / YBz / OY days lol smh it was nasty outside back then

I used to be on Atlantic with the bb belt, cane, and everything lmao

 

[Bushmaster69]

Those shiny looking dbz shirts.

Yoooo

I forgot about those.

 

[I Really Mean It]

This thread is a reminder of why I am working to make sure the designs my brand releases are timeless and not bound by the moment, a problem most of these dead brands suffered from. We aren't pushing the name of our brand, preferring to represent the name in clean and unique designs that convey the same message. Too many labels want you to wear a name, a brand, an identity that many people may not feel comfortable stepping out and advertising. Gucci makes some hot product, but do I want to rock a shirt that says Gucci? No. These labels lacked the creativity to branch out from the promotion of their brand name into the creation of an aesthetic that was as conceptually strong as it was marketable. The designs we release have to be timeless, the kind that can be worn 4 years from now and still have brehs going

 

[H. Selassie]

Had a gang of Southpole and Brooklyn Express in middle and high school

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Still rock Polo, Tommy, and a crisp pair of J's

Y'all buggin

 

[AliasNoName]

Hilfiger...... if not..fukk it... hope that whatever bankrupt.

 

[I Really Mean It]

I spent so much money on streetwear during my college years only to resell most of it.

Umm...I'm Black. I've already posted mad pics of myself.

This is me actually.

Temisan Adoki

And I owned alot of FUBU and Mecca and Boss and South Pole and all of that. I was just comparing how Ecko waas poser shyt compared to the rest of those brands.

And it was. Ecko is Complex now. shyt was always for hip-hop loving suburban white boys on the outside looking in on the cukture cause that's what Marc Ecko was and is. He made an empire off of it. He was the first of his kind as a culture vulture of urban (ie BLACK) culture.

And also, many of those black owned brands mentioned in this thread set the trend for their to even be an Ecko. So that's why it just looked so bad in comparison after time went on.

Can't stand the type of cacs who flock to Complex. Their sense of fashion is so manufactured and superficial, a template for hypebeasts and mindless consumers of what certain influencers coach them on desiring. Complex takes ownership of black culture and commodifies it for the consumption of people who hate black people. That's how I view them. fukk Complex.

 

[whatthatthangsmelllike]

nikka had them Kno Betta jeans from DD's discount

Lol we didn’t have dd’s just the swap meet Compton and del amo I never had it though a lot of people in middle school did

 

[Drip Bayless]

Crooks and castles, South Pole, Enyce
Pink Dolphin

 

[Fade Runner 2049]

I know some of yall was rockin P.Miller outfits from Mervyn's back in the day. Don't front

There’s a name you don’t hear everyday

As a youngin I worked in the kids department. Spent the day folding clothes and assisting milfs