How Did Timberlands Get So Popular In The Black Community??

[WaveGang]

Kriss kross is my earliest memory of em. Like 93 they blew up big time

 

[Carlton Banks]

I had a theory that it had to do with black people working manual labor jobs that required them back when there was less opportunities for us

 

[Bumblebreh]

Even then, who was the first one to popularize it??

biggie aka b.i.g. timbs are the most aesthetic boots of all time.

 

[boskey]

I once saw an old high school yearbook from like 1988 and they had Timberlands associated with punk rockers in the style section

 

[Luke Cage]

I once saw an old high school yearbook from like 1988 and they had Timberlands associated with punk rockers in the style section

they probably was rocking these

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

What's the origin story?? Something I've been curious about since being a teenager.

For me it was this song.

 

[Will Ross]

Most likely they was expensive so dude getting money got them and people just followed.

 

[theworldismine13]

in NYC after it snows, the snow starts to melt and turns the streets into slush, so you have to wear boots

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

“When the wind blows, I see my Polos and Timbos” BIG 1994

 

[datnigDASTARDLY]

Didn't get into Timbs until highschool around 97.

I mostly remember hi teck bots before that in the early 90s.

 

[⠀X ⠀]

I heard that it was because drug dealers in NYC wore them in the winter time, as they had to be outside in all kinds of weather conditions. They would travel to New England to get them. From there, it became popular with everyone in the hood. Before that, it was mostly white construction workers in the NE who wore them.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

I heard that it was because drug dealers in NYC wore them in the winter time, as they had to be outside in all kinds of weather conditions. They would travel to New England to get them. From there, it became popular with everyone in the hood. Before that, it was mostly white construction workers in the NE who wore them.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Most likely they was expensive so dude getting money got them and people just followed.

They weren’t that expensive at first. They were sold at army surplus stores and places where you could dress shoes. Once they got popular they started taxing. I don’t think my mother paid $100 for my first pair

 

[UberEatsDriver]

NY hip hop might have a thing with it.

Big in the Midwest and East Coast

 

[Threnody]

1989 was the year I first seen cats rocking timbs.....people would be shocked at how many so called 90s styles started in 89'

Wasn't common yet but that was the first year I seen nikkas wearing baggy clothes also