TheIsleofMan
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I'd rather be known for wearing Timbs than Chucks or Lugz
East coast breh. Why are timberland boots popular. And when did this start
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I'd rather be known for wearing Timbs than Chucks or Lugz
Damn, I haven't rocked tims for a few years alreadyCause East coast rappers promoted them. And they're durable as hell like all the northeast family.@CashmereThoughts @BmoreGorilla @NY's #1 Draft Pick
Jean toomer
Superstar
You can wear them with any kind of jeans and look crisp ..... Striped Lees, girbaud, acid wash, jordache with the seam, Gap baggy shorts. Timbs are timeless.
Amerikan Melanin
Veteran
Timbs were popular on the east coast meaning NYC & NJ hoods. They didnt explode until Juice movie and Epmd REdman and Das EFX all blew up in 1992 popularizing the hoodie baggie work jeans and jackets and timbs look.
These happened pretty much together and there were so many real street dudes and rappers on that Juice set that the clothes and lingo was on point for that era. Pac was rolling heavy with Treach and NJ and Queens dudes at the time.
The constructs was dope but nothing beat this look in the fall and winter:
I Still have my original pair!! I only oil them and brush them b4 I put them away for the summer, they are creased a bit but have lasted me decades!
These happened pretty much together and there were so many real street dudes and rappers on that Juice set that the clothes and lingo was on point for that era. Pac was rolling heavy with Treach and NJ and Queens dudes at the time.
The constructs was dope but nothing beat this look in the fall and winter:
I Still have my original pair!! I only oil them and brush them b4 I put them away for the summer, they are creased a bit but have lasted me decades!
Black_Panther_JS
Superstar
i'm wearing some right now 
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
dead ass on my mother son
copped my first pair in '96
i read an article somewhere saying ny rappers copied ny drug dealers on the corner...timbs could withstand snow, shytty sidewalks of 90s nyc
here it go
icon of hip-hop style.
Timberland’s 6″ Work Boots – known as Style #10061 to the brand’s employees or by their street monicker “Timbs” – have come a long way since their release in 1973. Originally designed as a hard-wearing boot for New England construction workers, the six-inch high waterproof nubuck shoe has become synonymous with hip-hop style, appearing on the feet – and in the songs – of everyone from Notorious B.I.G. to Kanye West.
The story behind the brand’s popularity in hip-hop circles is a strange one; Timberland never intended for their boots to be worn by rappers, and found the association so far removed from their blue-collar roots that they at first tried to distance themselves from their new-found “urban” audience. But like so many brands who found popularity in places they didn’t know existed – Converse, Dr. Martens and Vans, to name a few – the subculture association has become such a large part of the brand’s identity that today that it’s hard to imagine them without it.
In the early ’90s, when Timberland was serving its core customer base of blue-collar workers – who adored the brand’s boots for their hard-as-nails construction and superior waterproofing – the company noticed a strange thing happening in New York City. The Big Apple’s hustlers, rappers and scoundrels, miles away from Timberland’s rural heartland and oblivious to the brand’s blue-collar reputation, had become obsessed with their boots.
As consumer journalist Rob Walker reports in his book Buying In, “the legend goes that the first ‘urban’ buyers of Timberland boots were New York drug dealers – guys who had to stand on the street all night and needed the best possible footwear to keep them warm and dry.” Ever keen to enhance their hustler credentials, the city’s rappers followed suit, and soon the boot was everywhere; on Tupac’s feet, in Biggie’s lyrics, on Wu-Tang’s feet and in Mobb Deep’s artwork. Rap magazine Vibe reported that “everyone from thugs to step teams were stalking, walking in their six-inch construction boot,” as they “stood up beautifully to urban elements like concrete, barbed wire, and broken glass.”
As a brand priding itself on its rugged, salt-of-the-earth roots, Timberland actively tried to distance itself from this new-found street cred. Timberland’s CEO Jeffrey Swartz (and grandson of the company’s founder Nathan Swarz) told The New York Times in the early ’90s that “If you want to buy us and you are not our target customer, we don’t have a point of distribution that speaks to your lifestyle.” That didn’t deter any of the boots’ fans though, as trekking to backwater New England towns to cop Timbs became part of the experience; a pilgrimage of sorts.
How Timberlands Became an Icon of Hip-Hop Style | Highsnobiety
here it go
icon of hip-hop style.
Timberland’s 6″ Work Boots – known as Style #10061 to the brand’s employees or by their street monicker “Timbs” – have come a long way since their release in 1973. Originally designed as a hard-wearing boot for New England construction workers, the six-inch high waterproof nubuck shoe has become synonymous with hip-hop style, appearing on the feet – and in the songs – of everyone from Notorious B.I.G. to Kanye West.
The story behind the brand’s popularity in hip-hop circles is a strange one; Timberland never intended for their boots to be worn by rappers, and found the association so far removed from their blue-collar roots that they at first tried to distance themselves from their new-found “urban” audience. But like so many brands who found popularity in places they didn’t know existed – Converse, Dr. Martens and Vans, to name a few – the subculture association has become such a large part of the brand’s identity that today that it’s hard to imagine them without it.
In the early ’90s, when Timberland was serving its core customer base of blue-collar workers – who adored the brand’s boots for their hard-as-nails construction and superior waterproofing – the company noticed a strange thing happening in New York City. The Big Apple’s hustlers, rappers and scoundrels, miles away from Timberland’s rural heartland and oblivious to the brand’s blue-collar reputation, had become obsessed with their boots.
As consumer journalist Rob Walker reports in his book Buying In, “the legend goes that the first ‘urban’ buyers of Timberland boots were New York drug dealers – guys who had to stand on the street all night and needed the best possible footwear to keep them warm and dry.” Ever keen to enhance their hustler credentials, the city’s rappers followed suit, and soon the boot was everywhere; on Tupac’s feet, in Biggie’s lyrics, on Wu-Tang’s feet and in Mobb Deep’s artwork. Rap magazine Vibe reported that “everyone from thugs to step teams were stalking, walking in their six-inch construction boot,” as they “stood up beautifully to urban elements like concrete, barbed wire, and broken glass.”
As a brand priding itself on its rugged, salt-of-the-earth roots, Timberland actively tried to distance itself from this new-found street cred. Timberland’s CEO Jeffrey Swartz (and grandson of the company’s founder Nathan Swarz) told The New York Times in the early ’90s that “If you want to buy us and you are not our target customer, we don’t have a point of distribution that speaks to your lifestyle.” That didn’t deter any of the boots’ fans though, as trekking to backwater New England towns to cop Timbs became part of the experience; a pilgrimage of sorts.
How Timberlands Became an Icon of Hip-Hop Style | Highsnobiety
Facts.
Hate to break the news to youIt's just a black thing
They're even popular in the Caribbean with this hot as weather
Timbalands been copied by everyone the past few years and furthermore they don't get the label for wearing urban boots like we used to when clubs would turn thrm down by name
I see men and women of all races wearing timbs last few winters. With that said they are not even comfortable shoes and not lined for warmth in the winter so I don't rock with em for those reasons they are def style over substance.
Back in the day Drug Dealers in the North East USA originated style swelling crack hand to hand in winter temperature outdoors . Baggy jeans also help hide work, and fire arm.
Timbs are poor trail and tree climbing boots btw.
Timbs are poor trail and tree climbing boots btw.
Hate to break to to you but this been dudes here been wearing em for more than 15 years
West Coast Avenger
West Coastin & Smokin
I'll just say this.....throw on your timbs at least one time when you fukking....
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HollowPoints2
Don Makaveli.
Timberlands are an east coast tradition that Cali dudes will never understand. It's similar to the way L.A dudes wear chucks but on the east coast they are considered Bobos.
Also,on the east coast it snows 8 months out of the year therefore nikkas wanted to be ready for snow but at the same time good in style.