Top 5 trash clothing brands of the 90's

[Knicksman20]

Dude said CHAPS

Eckō was nice and Karl Kani had a good run

I used to wear Karl Kani gear along with Boss

Boss was among the first jeans that were baggy & weren't fitted lol. Throw in Maurice Malone aka Mo Jeans too

 

[patscorpio]

Paco Jeans

I had a pair of those....they weren't bad..not like the jnco jeans...what was I thinking smh

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

FUBU was cool until it wasn't. Like it was only at particular stores at 1st. Even then it might only be a few T-shirts and hats you could find. But by the end of 98 it was everywhere. Once it hit Macy's and went nationwide it was a wrap. The fabric on those 1st shirts was strong as hell though. I didn't mind paying $60 for a T-shirt it was good quality. Same goes for Sean John and Phat Farm, the real shyt was great quality at 1st. I rocked that stuff and was and still proud of it.

This 100%.

I saw people rocking FUBU on TV first but it wasn't until 1997 (5th/6th grade for me) that I saw kids my age with it.

Polo, Tommy and FUBU were the go-to brands. Errbody was rocking the Jordan 12s, those black & gold Iversons, Lugz and K-Swiss (with shoe strings to match the outfit). Had a red FUBU tee with black letters. That shyt was solid and lasted a minute...same has my dark blue FUBU jersey. That shyt was more durable than NFL jerseys. Thicc azz material but it looked nice. 9th grade around 2000 was the end.

By '02/'03, it was all about them throwback jerseys. All the popular nikkas had the Larry Bird and MJ....coldest one I saw was a 1988 Barry Sanders road jersey for Oklahoma State.

 

[Rell84shots]

The only people wearing Jinco's in school were those cacs and asians that wanted to be cacs. They all smelled like sweat, listened to Manson, and gave themselves those dumbass fake tats that they drew on with pens.

 

[patscorpio]

For my grade 8 yearbook picture, I had one of these joints on

I had the red black and white one...that shyt was fire

 

[Art Barr]

When was Marc Ecko spelled Echo?

When it first started.

I have the early pieces still here and there.

The cream baseball raglan piece.
The blue and gray raglan piece
A few more scattered after I moved with the old spelling.

I rocked echo for clothes.
Then I had the shoe company no relation to echo. Spelled Ecco. That were like my first expensive goretex boot. Then I had my Vasquez after that.

art barr

 

[Worthless Loser]

I had alot of Southpole and I never heard of anyone being made fun of for it at my school. And my school was like the fashion captial of the city.

 

[keon]

South Pole always looked like some bootleg, off brand shyt and nobody around me wore it.

 

[patscorpio]

southpole was dope when it was poppin

 

[Art Barr]

I used to wear Karl Kani gear along with Boss

Boss was among the first jeans that were baggy & weren't fitted lol. Throw in Maurice Malone aka Mo Jeans too

Only giving you a pass for Maurice Malone wave.

Kani was done.
once Malone innovated.

Boss was commercially wack.

House ducks that wete ghetto wore that.
Not bboys or bgirls.

Gangstas, house, and ghetto were all segregated from hiphop.

all those wack ghetto goofies and ducks used to try to clown us in girbaud and polo back in the early nineties. Then in 1993. They got a clue and bit girbaud.

Then they bit. In the mid nineties. To try to rock lo.


Ghetto, house, and gangstas used to rock wack clothes with chiffon and rayon shirts, slacks and steppas. Huff ass towel coats, used, and damaged suits.
Bboys and bgirls did not wear that huff ass shyt.
Originally when Jordan's dropped and troop in the eighties. Gangstas, house, and ghetto did not rock one's. When the two's came out. Is when gear became what it is now. Where now you could get killed for your jordan two's. Which started violence or theft for your gear at gun point.

That is when it got dangerous rockin gear. You could get stripped. Or hat snatched started when the twos xame out. Plus gamgbanging ratched up because of the explosion of crack. Before that. Black americs was beautiful and totally safe. It was a dreamscspe.
when i think back to that time before crack. You could rock expensive track suits, like a two stripe. Then Adidas three striped dropped. Then later expensive track suits popped off. Like Sergio etc.
Once the jordan two's dropped. Then the jordan flight suit popped off. You could get killed for two's and a flight suit easy.
Then it became troop and task force jackets could get you killed.

Which is how the gear in hiphop. Got segregated from ghetto. Before 83. More people were receptive to hiphop. Yet once Leroy from fame became gay. Breaking got dissed in favor of crack and gangbangin. Then the new way of thought in hiphop was instituted. Where the stop the violence movement almost even'd the gang shyt out. When krs visited all the chicago high schools and some elementary schools. Walking down the hallways with the kids singing one two three...the crew is called bdp. It was glorious.

How krs stopped doing the job he asked for with puff and later the exposed bambaata. Is hiphop's death tragedy.
Before that. Hiphop protection mechanisms. In the new school way of thought worked. Bboys and bgirls were totally segregated from house, ghetto and gangstas COMPLETELY.

. Krs destroyed all cross over shyt in chicago.
like hip house serving Kool rock steady.
krs singlehandidly took out violence in hiphop all together back then.

It was the golden age and the best time for being a bboy or bgirl. Plus it created a safe haven from gangbangin and crack. As it made inroads outside to keep us safe from the nonsense.

Plus we looked different and gangstas just respected us and left us alone. While they went to go listen to house and bass music.


Back then they did not listen to hardcore rap. They listened to two step, rnb, and house.

We were completely segregated in hiphop away from the bullshyt. Till the prison industrial economy and communication ruined this.
placed the blame erroneously on hiphop.

by blaming us for house duck misappropriation of gangsta rap in the nineties.

Also it is a difference between gangstas and other places having crews.
Only chicsgo and la had gangs. Other places had crews.

Crews did not exist in chicago.
till after the large indictments. Locked up all the chiefs and heads.
Plus the destruction of all the project towers like calumet, Taylor's, etc...then The row houses and later cabrini.

Which made chicago safer in 2000's. Till vice goof ass ruined it. Glorifying violence to people. When crime was four time less than the before.

Vice made all this shyt ratchet up. By glorifying the bullshyt.

With splintered leadership, new breeds and renegades going crazy. To where we are now.

Through all that hiphop was and still segregated socially.

You not gon find no bboy from back in the day. Trying to be no hardcore ol school gangsta in an actual organization.

Only gangstas in hiphop in chicago in the nineties was:

Gun smoke

Gangstas did not listen to or fukk with hiphop at all.


Past that...you got ostracized. For turning ghetto or called a duck. if you was switchin sides.

so if you went from girbaud ro towel coats..

You was ostracized from hiphop all together.


Plus it created weird segregation. If you were a bboy.
Who had a homie. Who joined an organization.
That you had to keep it on the low. Or be looked at in a weird light.

Like example.

ibn who cut kanye hair.

Ibn homie chewie flipped to being street adjacent maybe even gangbangin. Giving ibn a weird look. Yet it allowed ibn to migrate back and forth through both worlds. Which is how kanye got to migrate both worlds. After dissing whpk and hiphop in 1996.
kanye was ostracized from hiphop. While boogs, happy, Ed, don c were still regarded as bboys.
Where boogs took to producing.
plus made gangsta rap and hiphop with no issues. As boogs and ed was from euphonics. Plus never violated and was ostracized like kanye. Euphonics had a whole tv show on public access. Before the bd twins had the gangsta rap radio station. That bboys did not listen to. We listened to hpk, wnur, loyola.
Where Don c and happy culturally connected kanye as well as boogs. After being ostracized from hiphop. Which also gave kanye an edge. As kanye was at one point the most popular chicsgo nikka in passing before his solo deal on rocafella.
So kanye was popular in the city. Yet not allowed to be all city in hiphop. It was difference between all city Like orko[rip].

Kanye was never all city in hiphop. as kanye never had a pillar and was osteacized.
as producers have no pillar in hiphop. To be hiphop you need to be in a pillar. Kanye was never a dmc level dj, never a writer, nwver an emcee. Kanye was not regarded in cyphas for flex'n. Kanye was the most popular random neutron in the city tho easy. It was looked at as taboo with kanye and kalif, too. Where kalif got played. Plus kalif may have had heat with tone, reg and dem dare for ye. As it is some secret war with tone and ye possibly. As tone protege was timbuktu[rip].

Where timbuktu if he was a bit older. Would have been all city. Plus was the most popular radio hiphop dj in chicsgo history. Before his death.

Timbuktu and Jay Lance's brother. We're like the most popular younger nikkaz in hiphop, females and the city.
Where you had to kinda peep game. If a chic asked you about lance Lil bro, jay, in the mid nineties. Or kanye and Tim in the 2000's.
Those females were non-committals.

So weird dynamics like that took place back then. To see how things arise now.

Art Barr

 

[IVS]

lmfao moutain gears were ugly as fux. lmfao. terrible.
I did own one southpole velour sweatsuit..shyt was fire idgaf.
JNCO was for skaters and gothy weirdo types

 

[Digital Omen]

I knew Cross Colours and Kani were played when I saw cac girls rocking them. shyts were flash in a pan in and out hot for a year and that was it.
JNCO was raver gear, had to rock a chrome choker and smedium tee with them while rolling on E and blasting trance music
Southpole, Chaps, Lugz...you came to school with that off brand shyt you were getting clowned all day

To avoid clownage you had to rock Starter jackets, Nautica/Polo/Tommy (XL and above), Ellessee/Nike/Jordans
Like we didn't have uniforms but we had a uniform you know

 

[Art Barr]

lmfao moutain gears were ugly as fux. lmfao. terrible.
I did own one southpole velour sweatsuit..shyt was fire idgaf.
JNCO was for skaters and gothy weirdo types

Jnco originally in 1992. Was just normal jeans. With the dope little pocket shirts.

Sold as the expensive name brand in merry go round.
Jnco got wack from its weird migration to other stores outside of merry go round going out of business. Then went raver in 1995.
Which started that weird raver bottom.
Which is house. Hiphop is segregated and natural enemy to house. So that killed them in hiphop.
i do not think jnco was ever a ghetto, or gangsta brand.

before the communication act.
after the communication act and prison industrial economy was grafted onto all of america.
is when girbaud got compromised and phased out in hiphop culture. To become commercial.

Before that...

It was only two dope dark denim jeans.
that was official on the market in the nineties.

Girbaud brand x dark denim

The cross color vibrant blue dark denim. Which became commercial and pHased out to allow in.

Jnco straight leg dark denim.

Once jnco got wack. The pnb dark denim took the crown from jnco in dark denim.
girbaud was commercial and pHased out. In hiphop with the velcro strap. That shyt was not accepted in hiphop culture.
That was gangsta, ghetto gear, or commercial.

Not accepted in hiphop.

Plus we aged out of girbaud.

eventually though...

In the 2010.
The velcro strap showed up on:
Heritage American throw back retro style tweed pants.

So I rock those and commercial nikkaz always want them. To relive their girbaud ghetto velcro phase.

good luck finding them tho.

Art Barr

 

[Brandsdale]

Ecko
Southpole

 

[WaveGang]

I had alot of Southpole and I never heard of anyone being made fun of for it at my school. And my school was like the fashion captial of the city.

I'm in London and people was getting flammed for southpole in my school early 00s

I think it started coz Southpole used to make them knock off looking avirex leather jackets loool

There was something similar to Southpole aswell, had a similar name and brand style. It was as shyt as Mecca USA but one level up. I just remember we used to rinse this kid for wearing this jacket broo looool. Hopefully it comes to me. Might need to look at an old source magazine or sutm