Clothing You Wish Would Make A Comeback

[rawbertson.]

I always realy liked the jeans that PJ Ladd was wearing in PJ Ladd Wonderful Horrible Life. Maybe fourstar? or element?

Was just thinking about Skate Branded clothing
Theres kinda different categories to this.,.. theres stuff like 555soulnyc, stussy, etc, not so much that stuff
Innes, Estes?,fourstar, droors, 3Z3KIEL, edward sebastian, KR3W, (maybe some of those dont belong...?) im missing tons
clothing sponsors were a lot differnet back then, probably didnt pay much compared to stuff like carhartt, dickies, levi's, Guess, etc...

Anyway, a lot of skateboarding success relies on outside users to buy it, which i feel like outside users didnt buy hardly any of that type of stuff, it was just too niche / too far away from what they would consider "skate clothes". they would get more the billabong/quicksilver/DC/Volcom type stuff - that stuff absolutely killed it for awhile. Its almost as if the more core you were with the product, the less appealing it was to non-skaters (which makes sense - its not who it was designed for) the problem is , as i said, none of this shit really succeeds unless outside users buy it, so the skate branded clothing thinng really doesnt make any sense from a business perspective at all.

from what i recall, 99% try harding posers would have bought a Shorty's, Osiris, ELEMENT - actual BOARD BRAND shirt - over any of that niche "skate branded" core market stuff, any day, easily. the only guy i knew who had Krew / Emerica jeans skated, and he was from a pretty wealthy family. MOST skaters I knew were NOT in this position...

not sure how much this matters cause a lot of posers were buying this stuff before, but Fred Durst likely had a very positive impact on skateboarding careers salaries etc. Like imagine you could correlate Sci Fi Fantasy never happening because Jerry never got a full contract to be on Osiris early on etc. ? like imagine it was just, welp, jerry never ended up getting a good sponsor after maple so that was that and his pro career never happened and he worked at a starbucks and was just another local shredder... all because of fred durst 

[swongolianbbq]

I think like 90% of the kids that had kr3w k slims were snotty rich kids, at least where I was. The other 10% were dudes in their mid 20s with jobs and shit but all the dudes that age that I knew personally were just wearing random old man pants from the thrift store... Dickies/red kaps, pleated corduroys and like stone wash 550s and shit

[Chalupa]

I think like 90% of the kids that had kr3w k slims were snotty rich kids, at least where I was. The other 10% were dudes in their mid 20s with jobs and shit but all the dudes that age that I knew personally were just wearing random old man pants from the thrift store... Dickies/red kaps, pleated corduroys and like stone wash 550s and shit

When I was in high school, I only got Kr3w and Emerica denim because I got lucky on eBay bids. White Reynolds jeans and skinny Jerry Hsu jeans in gross colors. The other times, my local had the Greco cords for cheap since they had a weird fit where they were slim through the thighs but bootcut below the knees. I should have just stuck to the 511s I was getting from TJ Maxx and Kohls clearance racks.

[swongolianbbq]

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I think like 90% of the kids that had kr3w k slims were snotty rich kids, at least where I was. The other 10% were dudes in their mid 20s with jobs and shit but all the dudes that age that I knew personally were just wearing random old man pants from the thrift store... Dickies/red kaps, pleated corduroys and like stone wash 550s and shit

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When I was in high school, I only got Kr3w and Emerica denim because I got lucky on eBay bids. White Reynolds jeans and skinny Jerry Hsu jeans in gross colors. The other times, my local had the Greco cords for cheap since they had a weird fit where they were slim through the thighs but bootcut below the knees. I should have just stuck to the 511s I was getting from TJ Maxx and Kohls clearance racks.

When I was like 16 my mom just got me the CCS ones. The Uniqlo pants of the baker 3 era. She's diagnosed bipolar and one time whipped a bubble mailer at my face and viciously said "oh and your faggot white pants are here." Good times.

Then when I was like 19 and had a job I could get RVCAs and Altamonts and shit. I was lurking eBay for sure, that's right when I started selling on there. In hindsight I should've just kept wearing 874s and stone wash 550s like I was before baker 3 came out because now I kind of can't stand the footage from my spanky clone era

https://youtu.be/EcvmmVtAn24?si=cG11UIpyGOV0Amf8

 I wish I could do switch heels like the one at 1:49 again.

This shit is awkward as hell to watch hahahhhh. April 2008, fucking around. The guy in the green shirt is also the filmer. He survived brain cancer, became an EMT and now he just like, hunts turkeys.

To actually contribute to the thread though, I wish more pants came with drawstrings or snaps at the bottom again so you could make muska capris or just to keep em from dragging on the ground

I'm gonna test run some dickies with an adjustable leg opening with my sewing machine this year and see how terrible that looks but it might actually be sick

[Sedition]

The overall post-apocalyptic look of 1980's back-yard ramp vert skaters, with shredded shoes and mismatched pads, held together with nothing more than duct tape, despair, and Stoke. 

[rawbertson.]

I saw those original Ellington ones are possibly coming back. I might actually get those. My local only had the Black and White ones which i was still hyped on and got.

[propaganda]

idk bout the hoodie but thrasher tees are so back

[swongolianbbq]

I saw those original Ellington ones are possibly coming back. I might actually get those. My local only had the Black and White ones which i was still hyped on and got.

These are the ones I had, and i had that picture cut out from a magazine on my wall. (Not my pics)

The camel leather ones are one of my favorite shoes of all time. When the toe cap wore through, there was a thin TPR underlay. And underneath that? A whole 'nother layer of leather! Lots of good memories in these. Learned frontside flips in them. Heelflipped a 3 block in front of older kids that rode for the local shop, and later got put on.

The white and green leather ones were siiick.

I got the pink and black ones on eBay I think in like 06 or 07 or something. Suede toe, but shitty fake leather stuff, that like fuzzy stuff with a matte like, foam coating on it for the black portions. Lightweight though!

[GardenSkater77]

More fondly remembered than hoping for a comeback:
Fresh Jive/Raw Vibes
Limpies26 Red

https://limpies.com/

[Slave IV]

[Nom De Plume]

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Wish I still had these bomb proof Abercrombie and Fitch olive drab swishy cargo pants circa 98'. Drawstrings at the ankle with the option to go full Muska.

More fondly remembered than hoping for a comeback:
Fresh Jive/Raw Vibes
Limpies
26 Red

Good to know Fuct is thriving. Team is stacked.

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Fresh Jive was definitely a hot brand in 92’. I remember buying a 26 Red T-Shirt at Zipperhead. I also still have the Goodfellas Fuct T-Shirt in my collection.

Clothing in 92’-93’ was an interesting blend of hip hop, graffiti and rave culture. We had to go to Philadelphia and New York to buy this stuff, cause it wasn’t in the mall. It was cool because it showed your fellow classmates that you were shopping in the city.

You gotta post up that shirt! That's a great way to sum up skate fashion at the time. Instant street cred with some of these brands for sure, definitely hard to come by and cost a gwop. I think Fuct jeans were like $50-60 which was bananas at the time. Mom was not playing that shit when JNCOs got the same contrast stitching at half the price. Gotta look right tic tac-ing away that worm burner double flip on the New School 8 Ball Everslick.