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

[WesCrook]

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

Naughty by Nature for me

 

[Vandelay]

Good read.....​

How the Timberland Boot Became an Icon of Hip-Hop Style​

Will read later.

Naughty by Nature for me

I always thought it was Naughty and Onyx that popularized them. I lived in Philly but Philly and New York's style overlapped on some little brother/big brother shyt.

The boots themselves just fit in with that rugged street style at the time. I was young, but because people couldn't spend hundreds to look fresh everyday, so having a crisp pair of jeans or a dikkie suit with some buttas was an easy way to look fresh as fukk without spending Gucci, Versace money.

What really helped was the boots themselves were not as clunky as other work boots, had an easily identifiable logo (people underrate this), so you could actually dress the look up. Throw on a Nautica, Polo, or Hilfiger shirt, some blue or black jeans and Timbs, and you could look hood proper. This was my goto look from 97-03. Well not Hilfiger, but you know what I mean.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Will read later.



I always thought it was Naughty and Onyx that popularized them. I lived in Philly but Philly and New York's style overlapped on some little brother/big brother shyt.

The boots themselves just fit in with that rugged street style at the time. I was young, but because people couldn't spend hundreds to look fresh everyday, so having a crisp pair of jeans or a dikkie suit with some buttas was an easy way to look fresh as fukk without spending Gucci, Versace money.

What really helped was the boots themselves were not as clunky as other work boots, had an easily identifiable logo (people underrate this), so you could actually dress the look up. Throw on a Nautica, Polo, or Hilfiger shirt, some blue or black jeans and Timbs, and you could look hood proper. This was my goto look from 97-03. Well not Hilfiger, but you know what I mean.

Yea that logo was iconic. I used to fill it in with a black pen to make it darker

 

[Leasy]

I use to stay with buttas until I got a career job couldn't wear them shyts nomore.Them shyts at 200 a pop now when I was growing up I was able to get them jawns for 100 or 120.

 

[Leasy]

Then you also have to be careful where you buy them because nikkas in West Philly use to buy them shyts at 52 street and buy some real ones from Macy's in Ardmore and return the fake ones in the real box

 

[RealCrownHeights]

In NYC, we never call them buttas, it's usually just constructs, the black ones, 40 belows and beef and broccoli's

 

[Mr. Negative]

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

they were cheap as shyt and you could get them (amnd boots like them) at the army surplus, along with fatigues. standard almost-homeless cornerboy nikka streetwear

there was a point I can literally remember as a kid seeing Timbs being sold at walmart for 40 bucks in mississippi

hip hop blew them way the fukk up. Got us away from 80's street fashion.

 

[Wiseborn]

Because they were actually better boots the most alternatives back then. Up north your sneakers get ruined in the snow.
People just started wearing them year round after a while.

This, They were the first boots that kept your feet warm that didn't look corny.

The old school Super Timbs were the shyt ( at least what we knew then) but they were so big and hot that you couldn't really rock them in the summer.

I'll just be honest they blew up along with Triple Fat Goose coats from nikkas sell crack on the corner at all hours. I remember as a little kid nikkas would be out at all hours rain sleet or snow.

 

[Vandelay]

Then you also have to be careful where you buy them because nikkas in West Philly use to buy them shyts at 52 street and buy some real ones from Macy's in Ardmore and return the fake ones in the real box

I stayed buying Timbs on 52nd street lol. I didn't cop the Akhi jawns...but I definitely bought a few from the Chinese or middle eastern stores around chestnut street.

 

[EBK String]

That’s a good question. I got my first pair for Christmas in 92. My mother knew they were hot at the time and got them. I had no idea. Just realized I been rocking them for almost 30 years

 

[get these nets]

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

Drug dealers from uptown (Harlem) made Timbs popular in the 1980s.
Dr. Jays began stocking them in the tri state area based on their populairty........they were one of the top retailers in the area at the time.

Before then ,Timbs were really only carried in retailers catering to mountain climbers/hunters/outdoorsmen.

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

Just figured it was like Wallabys when Ghost and Rae hyped them up and everyone else went along with it.

We rocked those way before Wu bigged them up.

 

[Swirv]

Hi Teks used to be more popular than Tims but Tims took over

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

Drug dealers from uptown (Harlem) made Timbs popular in the 1980s.
Dr. Jays began stocking them in the tri state area based on their populairty........they were one of the top retailers in the area at the time.

Before then ,Timbs were really only carried in retailers catering to mountain climbers/hunters/outdoorsmen.

Started out in the Army/Navy stores, then Paragon (along with Columbia gear). First pair I saw were not uptown, it was in ‘86 at the Albee Square Mall, the real 50 and them BK goons were rocking them. I know because I walked through them niqqas every day. The Constructs weren’t in style yet, it was the Gore-Tex style that people don’t even wear anymore.

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

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

Nah. Definitely not punk rockers. What school was this? Couldn’t have been a mostly Black school.