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awww back in the treeees.. so cute man..

tbh i use to rock quite of gstar back in the day... and a lot of burberry(not sure why i was so fascinated with the plaid)

and i am not gonna lie... i dont have many shorts... im not a shorts sorta guy.. and ive gotten like AF clothes as presents from ppl... so i mean i do occasionally rock a pair of those and bum it out..

pls forgive

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anything italian (think d&g, versace, etc)...anything too baggy/loose (fubu, bape, rocca wear)...anything too preppy (a&f, banana rep, hollister shit)...oh those awful hawaiian shirts and nasty looking grail shirts...also those distressed looking sevens, rock & republic & true religion jeans...also don't forget those tacky coach monograms...

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i understand alot of the listed above but one i couldn't help but notice is the quiksilver comments. granted, i don't really like any of their shit as of late but i have a tee from a few years(5-6) back that's heather grey, and all it has is "Quik" in navy. And I still wear it a lot. Just because it's looser fitting than a lot of my other tee's and is nice in the summer cause I can actually breathe in it...

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Yeah am I the only person that finds Visvims to be absurdly overhyped, pricey, and above all stunningly ugly? To me they look like a cross between Viking wear and some misguided Native American moccasin revision. Maybe I just don't live in NY, but it seems that Visvims and Supreme are basically universally acclaimed, and anyone wearing them is guaranteed to get props. $130 for a box logo tee seems ridiculous.

Anyone claiming to not really care about brands would NOT pay that kind of money on a tee-shirt. Can someone explain the Supreme & Visvim hype?

And NBHD and W) Taps do ghastly all-over prints and camo & military stuff just like every other streetwear brand that gets shit on over here, but somehow anything by those brands is instantly gold. Can someone break down this Midas touch for me? And don't get me started on the destroyed jeans they put out. Is it just the exclusivity of being hard to find/not sold on the internet that makes these brands?

And I don't understand the Stussy cachet either. AT ALL. They were a joke years ago in Hawaii where I live: I think they make ugly shirts, often poser sloganeer shirts, and all over prints and lots of other missteps.

Also, Nike? NIKE? Why does everyone slave over everything this brand does? They're the poster child of the cutthroat, fuck-anyone-over-for-a-dime multinational corporation mentality. I understand that a lot of other companies do similar things, but COME ON. Nike is insanely popular, and people follow their every move. And why did Nike SB blow up when they were such a latecomer to the skate shoe game? That was the epitome of a mass-volume multinational corporation capitalizing on a culture and manufacturing authenticity and exclusivity. Look at sneaker brands like JB Classics that are really moving the game forward. Not to say that Nike never does anything cool, but I feel like their appeal goes completely unexamined, especially in terms of its social ramifications. Personally I've boycotted them for years.

I don't wear anything that gets faked a lot, because people will assume that you're either a hypebeast (no dis to the website, myself I like streetwear) or bought fake shit, or both. So obviously Nike, BAPE/BBC/Ice Cream, etc.

Sorry, I don't mean to come in here and wave my dick around with no rep and shit on all the sacred cows, but I would like to know why people are into all these brands. No hate and nothing personal.

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Sneakerwise I like JB Classics, and Run Athletics has done some nice collabos (I got their Bird of Paradise collab with Flip the Bird, the label of a Hawaii rapper).

Denimwise I wear only dry selvage: Nudies, Know1edge, Crooks & Castles, and I just ordered a Sugar Cane Hawaii 40401A (not dry, I knwow, one wash) from Japan.

Streetwear brands do a lot of clever stuff; I don't really pledge allegiance to any brand in particular, but Manifest's C.R.E.A.M. ripoff of D.A.R.E., Nossa's Che Poppa. This season's The Hundreds is very smart, including the 1984 cover reference and the Sydney Poitier rip (which I interpret as condemning popular American corporate multiculturalism)

In4mation, Hawaii streetwear brand, makes some really subversive tees, often with unexpected progressive religious under/overtones (i.e. the Anarchy logo with rainbow colors in a crown of thorns, or Catholic Jesus with an AK and a gas mask). I like brands that get irreverent with more dressy wear, like polos and wovens, and streetwear brands sometimes do this well.

And I wouldn't just write off all the Hawaii surf brands. Hawaiian Island Creations makes beautiful board shorts, and last time I was back I got a nice Local Motion polo.

Oh and I co-sign the hate on A & F/Hollister, and their Nazi propaganda-looking ads. Also, I think the plaid look is getting very old.

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