“He’s fast & aggressive. I’ve seen him score more than enough times.”

This lowkey and (compared to traditional hiphop gear) understated look goes well with trends in current rap fashion. As America’s grip on the planet weakens, this will also show in popular culture. In a couple of years they will not set trends like they do now.

“Way before brand name conscious gangs like the Lo-Lifes and Decepticons in NYC, there were football hooligans in England known as Casuals that were also into showing off expensive brand name clothing. Sometimes, they obtained their pieces in ways similar to the NYC gangs by shoplifting, robbing, etc…  However, instead of going for flashy logos and bright colors like they did in NYC, they went for the low key, expensive brands going for the “casual” look to blend in with the crowd and avoid unwanted police attention.”

In his book Perry Boys, author Ian Hough (quoted above from an interview with Vintage Gear Addicts) paints a larger narrative for this tradition.

Born on the streets of Manchester and Liverpool in the late seventies, Hough places the Perry Boys (or as their successors are know nowadays – the casuals) at the end of a line of dominant subcultures of Britain, one more provocative than the former, from beatniks to greasers, mods, hippies, glam rockers, and peaking with the punks in 1977.

With the casuals, that same energy, hunger and rebellious spirit went permanently underground, coded in details instead of grand gestures and circus tricks (hello crustpunks). While the more provocative subcultures lived on – fragmented, intermingled, half-dead – the streets went for camouflage instead of flash. Trends died out, but the tradition lived on, stronger than ever.

RAP GAME ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC

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