Cat's is tight because I said they were late, it is what it is.
I named specific brands and looks, and NO cat's uptown were not rocking the multicolored Vasquez on the same tip cats in the South Bronx were. They rocked Timbs. In high school my main crew of friends were from 219, Valley, and B-Road and I am born and raised and grew up with dudes from Forest and McKinley, and my fam around my age was mostly from Beekman. My cousins went to Graphics and Park West, and so I was in Harlem on a regular basis.
There was a clear difference between how difference in how neighborhoods dressed back then, i.e. East Harlem dudes and West Harlem dudes did not dress the same. Westside cats was rocking before the colorful Marm's waaaay before everyone else, and everyone hopped on the trend afterwards. West Harlem dudes usually did shyt first and then it spread out, I'm not even from there and I gotta give them dudes they credit on that tip. They were also the first when it came to the Monclers, again no shame in giving cats credit.
In my era me and my cousins knew the edge when it came to copping Foamposites was to go to Brooklyn because BK dudes didn't fukk with Foams heavy like that. Foams would sell out in 1-3 days in the BX/Harlem/Heights but could be copped several weeks after release on Fulton. I remember Dallas Penn (much older Decept era cat) emphasizing that BK dudes didn't fukk with Vasquez like that (he even pronounced it differently because BX cats incorrectly saying with a Z, when its supposed to be pronouced V
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