while urbanwear are often mass-made for the consumers that live in cities and can't afford streetwear.
haha damn, this thread seems to come up over and over again.
who cares? why do there need to be names? wear what you like, and that's that.
rilly doe?
From my experience, streetwear products are usually made by companies such as Orisue, Stussy, Mishka while urbanwear are often mass-made for the consumers that live in cities and can't afford streetwear. Those products are often branded by Rocawear, Avirex, Sean John, etc.
urbanwear is just hip hop and urban inspired clothing companies...streetwear has really branched out to encompass more than just one demographic, so its really imo about being cutting edge and controversial with the items and graphics etc, that you wouldnt see on a more commercial clothing brand...
...I love the fact that streetwear companies have customers such as myself, a hip hop head and overall fresh *****, and punk rock cats, and surf cats for example, all rockin the same shit, even tho we dont share a lot of the same interests.
Urbanwear companies are streetwear companies that have mature and/or change their business model, shifting from one based largely on exclusivity to one based on increasing market share and brand recognition. At least from a business class perspective I think that would begin to cover it. In terms of styles it obviously doesn't. Style wise "urban wear" has more of a connection to hip hop/pop (Probably because shoppers interested in that style spend the most and comprise the largest consumer group for apparel). Streetwear is more diverse in it's cultural connections and has a less predictable consumer base (leading it's labels to be smaller/more boutique oriented). For alot of "streetwear" labels to grow substantially, their designs would probably have to be bastardized and watered down in order to fit into the tighter standards of larger distributers/department stores (picture Macy's stocking Mishka's "get a job" lol). Alot of those changes would probably be intended to make the offerings target consumer clearer...that would likely lead the line to become "urbanwear" as any experimental subject matter, or rock/hip hop interconnections were cut to help departmentalize the labels instore. Lol. =My thesis.
People were saying he was looking to buy 10deep or some other smaller label.
and consider it a misrepresentation of their culture...similar to the watered down Mishka shirt in Macy's. It's not a sellout because of the store it's sold in, it's a sellout because they changed the product to suit the store, when originally the shirt was about the message on it.
From my experience, streetwear products are usually made by companies such as Orisue, Stussy, Mishka while urbanwear are often mass-made for the consumers that live in cities and can't afford streetwear. Those products are often branded by Rocawear, Avirex, Sean John, etc.
Sean john, rocawear, avirex, and whatever costs way more than streetwear lol. c'mon, $30 tees. lets be serious.
