Haha, good stuff.
Forgot how many Slappers can't wait to jump on threads to cool guy everyone. What I meant to do was ask is - why is it still called the "Dylan outfit" - bridging fashion and skating isn't anything particularly new.
To me, he followed in the footsteps of people like Greco, Ellington, Dill and even Heath.
Greco’s Vans Escobars are the first skate shoe that I know of that were designed to look like a dress shoe or loafer.
So why is Dylan attributed with popularizing this mob look? As people said, he's not the first one in skateboarding to do this by a longshot. I think it’s more because skateboarding kept getting more and more mainstream as he was coming up and so more eyes were on him. That plus he’s a hot dude. But it was others before him that pioneered the fashion / model / skate connection.
I mentioned Berle and SP to counter my own argument, that not everyone dressed as an old timey mobster is doing the "Dylan cosplay". However, when it comes to Berle / SP, these two were blatantly copying Dylan because of their abrupt style change and close proximity to him or FA.