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Off The Record: What Were the Hot Clothing Trends of Your Teen Years?

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0:00 do you remember this shoe company this is like during like the Asian YouTube era and the shoe came in uh company came in really hard and they just kind of don't say Creative Recreation I'll just say Creative Recreation where did they go I don't know [Music] isn't that crazy but that happened to me with that guy I know God ah I know dude enough about Colleen's love life we need to get on with this off the Record topic what were your favorite or what were the hottest clothing trends when you were a teenager oh baggy pants this is asked by fried onion in our Discord thank you very much and you can only ask us if you're part of the Discord which means you gotta be a patreon member when you were a teenager what year was

0:50 that when you were like 16 seconds 2013 I mean sorry 2003. I don't know when Chucks were ever out yeah they're Timeless I think because they look good in like rock skate Punk gangster cholo do you ever have it with the fat laces though like you'd switch out the laces fat laces yeah they're like everything baggy Dickies and a big white T-shirt it was always low-rise jeans what are low-rise jeans right now they're all high-waisted that's the style I think it's coming back yeah I sit lower I saw that it started to make a comeback is it like the Christina Aguilera pants Oh and then you go whale tail you go whale Channel you can see that you can see the bones yeah yeah when that makes you go

1:41 uh like that on guys or girls but now it's like high-waisted and like cargo and like baggy yeah baggy big baggy clothes were just everything and comfortable it was easy at the same time too there was also like the goth and the scene kids too yeah it depends on the scene you're in so I remember in uh when I was in junior high I mean yeah when I was a teenager probably when I was 13. what I was interested in was like baggy clothes big white tees because you want to look like a gangster yeah and then I remember uh when I started getting into like break dancing with my friends everyone's wearing like FUBU triple five Soul uh NYC like all those like kind of like hip-hop try like tribal like those kind

2:32 of Brands and then I remember I got more into like raving and stuff and that's when a brand called Drunken Monkey came out drunken monkey and then I remember remember those skate shoes they're like Globes yeah it was like it only existed like during that time like air walks I I had a pair of airwalks they were pretty it was like it almost depend on what scene you're in and it was so clear back then like depending on the scene you dressed a certain way that's true yeah so my closet actually changed a bunch of times yeah that's right because when you become when you buy a skateboard and you actually learn how to ollie now you gotta get like the full-on yeah you can't dress like anything else yeah dude and it's weird because you couldn't just order it online and just have it now you got to go to a skate shop yeah go to specific places yeah remember those Duff shoes even tribal gear was kind of hard to find you had to go to like a like a

3:22 booth in a in a swap meet that sold that and the hip-hop stuff and as and then graffiti like like can talk yeah yeah spray tops yeah or scribes yeah illegal ████ yeah what about Brands like uh what were some of the mall brands that you guys buy everyone went to Miller's Outpost before it turned into and then it turned into Anchor Blue I remember that and then like holy ████ I ever heard that name yeah dude that's bring it back huh that was a place for jeans before Asians were dressing like cholos I remember they went to um Lacoste they went to boss they went to um what's the other polo shirt brand eyes uh polo polo and then we were we're like Nautica and oh yeah Tommy Hilfiger yeah what's

4:13 the Khaki Brandon stalkers everyone wore Dockers yeah Nautica and Tommy were masked there was another store too that all the like if you're into the GQ style there was a store that got bought out by Express but they were called structure was awesome yeah like if you were into like the baggy polos where you like barely just took this part in and everything rolled it over destruction was Asian gang where yeah yeah yeah because you get good slacks there and you get your hair and Asian kingware yeah you you get your baggy pull you you pull it out like you got a fan and same with Banana Republic that was a little bit of that too yeah guys were shopping there and then when Aeropostale came out Aeropostale was big for just getting

5:03 cheap clothes at like a big quality was that associated with uh like American Eagle and I think it was like pre yeah I think it was like a little bit of a precursor to that um that's what came first what's the Abercrombie look came out then you had Hollister American Eagle yeah then those were huge all my like Japanese American friends and people that like are from like or Filipino they would uh wear like the Hawaiian Island Creations remember remember that shirt h-i-c like they were I was like always thought it was so cool like surfboard they would wear like the poopy shell necklaces hookahs were major for sure a lot of Hawaii fashion made it to uh I remember when Hawaiian shirts was trending right yeah yeah right it's really awesome dude at our high school oh yeah guys would wear um like the the long beads that you would

5:53 get at like a Hawaiian like the brown ones no the black ones oh like have you ever seen those they're they're not like yeah they're called Kukui nut or something yeah like that was the thing and I just remember like I didn't even know it was like a Hawaiian thing but like everybody was wearing them or like the shark tooth not even you know what not even the shark tooth it was it was just this like the black ones because I remember like how come people don't wear puka shells but like everybody was like making fun of them at the time when I was in like high school like baby shows are lame dude but they would wear these little what are they called they thought they were lame at that time at my time I guess they cut kind of were already yeah remember chokers they also wear chokers all the guys wearing chokers though yeah I remember a lot of dudes dressed like that fool guy Fury oh yeah Guy Fieri he still dresses like that a Route 66 shirt

6:44 yeah well he has to he probably doesn't want to but he has like a buttons that was stuck he's stuck in 2001 dude he looks like a diner yeah he's like a Hoobastank fan dude like yeah what about for pants what was the go-to jinko for my Rave days yeah also solos I think you guys remember solos in the swap meet that was the gang brand Ben Davis oh yeah Ben Davis Ben Davis Dickies Levi's I really like Levi's you're cool we're 501 yeah yeah five actually I think they were five eleven five eleven as a teenager uh yeah no it was like later on like when I

7:35 didn't wear Dickies anymore because Dickies was like Middle School going into high school and I was like I'm gonna start wearing jeans because they fit better you know hey do you have a picture of yourself from high school I'm thinking of it right now because I'm remembering people who went through like the Ed Hardy phase Ed Hardy face my freshman year in high school like mostly everybody was wearing like big white tees right and then like you know big baggy pants yeah and they were like shakas and pro clubs and all those Brands but there was a thing where chocolate yeah like people would take your tag like they'd be like is that Pro Club is that a pro club that's not a pro club and they would like like talk ████ in class all the time and I didn't know what the ████ was going on so what they would do was like they would rip the tags off like that would be like a game that they would do so that you can't be verified something not even verified but it was just like oh I got your attack

8:25 kinda like oh yeah I got your tag why is that so familiar yeah like people would do that ████ but then as I was getting older like probably like sophomore to junior year guys stopped wearing big baggy tees and they started wearing like Abercrombie which was weird and they're like kind of like gang bangers dude so like some of these dudes are kind of gangster would start like it would start to ████ kinda and it was like I don't think I saw those guys yeah it was like the Pharrell era where people were starting or like yeah they would wear like collared shirts or they just wear like Abercrombie hoodies and then it got even more streetwear when the first time I saw like hundreds I was like what's this logo everybody was like yo like we got the hundreds and I'd be like what's this lug with the bomb like oh that's cool but we I never bought them because I was like that's too expensive I couldn't pay for them yeah but like like diamonds they'd wear like diamonds they

9:16 may fly yeah Diamond Supply they wear um what's called what was it the hundreds right hundreds and then diamonds bro or a life yeah that was kind of expensive too though a lot of the cool like like streetwear kids would wear like a life and I'd be like oh what are these Brands because I remember seeing it was really cool but it was also very exclusive and then I think 10 Deep 10 Deep 10 Deep 10 Deep kids were undefeated did it ever uh did they ever get Johnny Cupcakes out there I don't know what the hell you just oh yeah Johnny cook Johnny Cupcakes was like deep cut streetwear brand at the time it was like super hot or tap out some guys will wear like this you're

10:06 talking to an Affliction man right there I was like you kidding me dude I got my whole closet filled up did you really wear tap out um come on no not until later actually because I had a Tap Out shirt I think Bart gave me one for my birthday when I was fighting when I was fighting we would like sometimes we would have sales for Tapout stuff they had really tight sweatsuits and we would wear them and we'd wear them to cut weight so we I would buy something no I think but you you and the homies all pitched in and bought me a t-shirt for my birthday and then I didn't know I didn't know what tap out was because I liked MMA I just didn't watch UFC I do any of that ████ I didn't want one so bad so they got me one I was like oh cool and they're like you don't even know tap out and I'm like huh that was such a game changer you know it was you know it was a brand I wanted to wear but I didn't want to be a poser it was Fox Racing Fox how come why aren't just like

10:58 a poser you're gonna be a poser if you don't know is that the fox with the lines for the eyes oh that was that was cool I think it's a tail yeah what about Metal Volusia dude militia they sponsored the Diaz brothers yeah yeah I remember yeah because I remember seeing that transition and being like Oh that's kind of crazy what were the brands that your parents put you in against your will when you Oshkosh ████ ask Oshkosh but gosh bro you know what brand they put me that ████ hate it and I was like ████ I should have kept all that ████ in elementary school so my aunt went to fit him she was a designer and then so she would buy me all these like polo shirts that are actual Polo ████ Polo uh uh the like the Khaki jackets and all that stuff like Ralph Lauren Poland yeah Ralph Lauren polo and uh but I'm like in

11:50 fourth grade or something I want Bugle Boy I don't want that ████ dad ████ I'm gonna I want to be abused yeah I'm gonna go ████ scratch someone's car later you know so I wanted like that like that kind of mischievous clothing or like no fear you know no fear was cool Quicksilver dude yeah or like who's the boss and it's a ████ duck on it or some ████ and then she would give me like those clothes and then in junior high when that became in I was like ████ I wish it was so cool yeah dude I had a lot of Union [Music] yeah it's like a JCPenney brand same with like mashimo those were like those are like department store stuff yeah they went to Target I remember when they went to Target and they always wearing I

12:40 was wearing most of them all back then bro when it was at Target kind of JCPenney I love that we're fighting Pockets to brag yeah yeah yeah where are they now oh dude we know what happened tomorrow there used to be a clear distinction between mall clothes and like you knew you got it at Target or somewhere else yeah yeah you can't tell you can't tell yeah it's just all graphic tees and like whatever yeah I remember my sisters used to like they used to buy me clothes and be like just wear this and I would just like wear their like wear clothes wear their clothes yeah I'd wear their clothes um but they would like shop at um I remember just when like h m started being a thing oh wow yeah and they would like like you should wear this and I'll be like they're trying to dress you up you're lucky to have h m as a younger person yes it was affordable and then they would go to like Forever 21 they would just buy me clothes and they'd be

13:30 like they're like oh Nick's gonna look good in this and then they put it on and I was like okay like that stupid you're like their little doll yeah kind of do you remember this shoe Cup this is like during like the Asian YouTube era and the shoe came in uh company came in really hard and they just kind of don't say Creative Recreation I wasn't saying Creative Recreation where did they go I don't know it was like every single Asian YouTuber was wearing it and then it just they were trying to hit the dance Market too like it's really hard who's behind that creative breakfast a nice shoe yeah like how does the how do things come so hard so fast and leaf I went I remember I went to like uh I know lot of like brothers started wearing creative wrecks too like a lot of black dudes had him and I was like what is this Market it's like all like Urban like black dudes and then just Asian dancers like who's the person in charge kind of tired dude I had we wore those

14:20 for ABDC yeah we did too yeah how did it come so fast they had him at like they were making deals with wardrobe departments on shows and they were given creative wrecks out to just everyone on set so it was like somebody I never met the guy behind that at all comment below if you're a part of Creative Rec creative Creative Rec we're actually cool unlike I mean that vlado was another big dance scene seller but it wasn't as cool as creative wreck yeah yeah damn I'm surprised you know about that that's crazy I just remember seeing everyone it's a dancer to it it was also another brand called rat eye I don't know if you remember rat eye r-a-d-i-i they look like Supras but they were oh yeah Supras were cool I have a bunch that I got rid of recently oh dang it wasn't the bags of stuff supers had they had really high value though I

15:11 remember I didn't know what I was buying when I would buy them and I would just get random ones and then if I went to like another country and I was wearing them everybody would freak out and go how are you dancing in those like you're gonna wreck those it's like like I got it for 60 bucks yeah they're like regular 60 shoes out here oh you know what shirts that actually start to collect things I like them and it was also because I couldn't really afford them so it took me a while to save to get one it was a LRG remember LRG that was another but each shirt is like 30 40 yeah and it's full of t-shirt and then so it's like you can't just go and just buy three because that's already 100 bucks I'd buy one and then maybe a couple months later I'll buy another one dude I had a sick track jacket an LRG tractor yeah if I got like a ████ ketchup stain on I feel like my life was over yeah hey we had a meeting with the Quest Crew we had a meeting with the LRG guy passed

16:01 away a couple weeks before he died yeah yeah we were supposed to uh he was supposed to sponsor us against gear and we were supposed to rep it and stuff but then he passed away yeah it was like a tree with a plus sign yeah yeah I always thought that it was a Cool brand allergy was a very cool brand yeah it was very hip-hop brand it was so big too yeah it was so big of the big fit yeah like everybody was wearing them every it was like it was a very popular brand everywhere what's the girl brands of your teen years they were so white like Roxy oh my god did you shop with that limited too but they're still around Wet Seal yeah I spent so many times I've been in all those stores that's where all I went to a ball and when yeah those are all the stores my sisters went to and I'll just be like yeah there's so much

16:57 I remember those yeah what was your go-to I mean all the ones out of name did you have this the sweats the matching sweats where the butt is Juicy yeah I had like the the um velvet jacket that was like a Paris Hilton like oh yeah that was a staple she made those Poppins yeah low rise velvet jumpsuit what store when you go to the mall and you're gonna go shop what stores which one gets your butt twitching as you're walking towards it as a teenager yeah I think it was like you're like that's my ████ I mean I think it was just Forever 21 at the time because it was just like they had so much like variety and it was just easy it was cheap yeah um you know so preferred someone almost got popular dude it was on top for quite a long time they kind of just fell off yeah they're only now closing a bunch of them do you think now is it h m hmm

17:48 what's now the equivalent probably h m now nowadays honestly it's probably she and oh she is like it's the place that they produce clothes at such a higher rate than any other product everybody hates them with their clothes are like yeah it's fast fashion times a million is it like from China literally all the things you could think about that's bad about a clothing company like you know they steal ideas people have gotten their packages and it's like all ████ up they're sometimes they get roaches in there like oh my God yeah bro their shirts it's probably child labor terrible right so it's like Forever 21 but by Chinese people but like way worse yeah I mean I think she was Chinese anyway right the fair 21 Creator no they're Koreans yeah because because Koreans have a little bit of standards and then Chinese yeah yeah so she and nobody can take a style

18:39 that's like like let's say a style is trending nobody can bring that to Market at mass than fashion when she is wow it's so quick you think they're gonna go out of business sorry not Sheen she in is one of them the one worse than that is boohoo I think what the hell is boohoo never heard of it what yeah yeah because they have physical stores oh they do don't they I love their Billboards yeah like oh man why I want to I want to try them out do they have clothes for men yes yes I thought they just sponsored big booty Brazilian girls they sponsored Tim for a while oh you guys ever buy Amazon Basics clothing no is it good uh I just bought a pair of jeans just because yeah I was like oh it fits really nice oh ████ I want to get their shirts just regular plain shirts I mean no I don't really wear them anymore but when I did wear them I was like I

19:30 like how basic it looks they're gonna take over the world oh because I got tired of wearing the basics yeah do they have Amazon bases of everything how about puppy pads that are Amazon Basics it was like what that's crazy yeah it's their own ████ it's scary dude I mean now that there's like no way to stop people from like manufacturing clothes that look like other stuff like it's Unstoppable now especially if you do it that fast damn man you think all the kids are wearing Amazon Basics these days no I'm not right I'm sure lots of people dude it's cheaper than h m no for sure dude yeah can't compete with Amazon you probably get it you know what I think it's gonna happen right now there's gonna be a whole new market that's like handmade designer high quality super high quality super expensive but like you could only get it from this person and nobody's gonna buy it I

20:21 thought you would say super no sales if you gotta hand make it turn around times long do you remember do you remember any of the brands that were not clothes of just things you had in your teen years like like the gel we used oh dude ballet looks Bella Bella yeah got to be the Bella I remember got to be I would use got to be from got to be still I think it's still around yeah or it's still there yeah what else got to be remember like Mitsubishi TVs oh ████ I forgot they had TV like people would have like big screen TVs but it's like big in the back and it's like by Mitsubishi wow I did it all yeah I don't know I've seen those but I had Panasonic stop bragging Iowa I was I was yeah I was gone and their

21:13 sound system yeah remember like you had like the stack it could play like record and all that and it's all attached with the speakers that's totally gone right Iowa I don't know maybe she's not here oh damn but it was like that but it was cool to see like Brands like Fila come back you know like from 90s or starter it was cool seeing Stars oh that starter jacket okay Swiss okay Swiss K-Swiss Gary V bought it right or yeah he did you think so I like K-Swiss I have a pair well no I'm not wearing you got the garyvee's you got the Gary V5 oh but it has memory foam in it it's really for real yeah like to make you talk high-pitched a little bit or no no but every time I wear the case Swiss people are like whoa you got nice white shoes I'm like thanks like is that Fila or something like no it's K-Swiss the Gary Beast do you guys ever remember getting made fun of at school for for something specific that you were wearing oh on

22:04 every day oh yeah it was all the clothes my sisters made me wear I got super move I remember uh my first day of school in eighth grade uh one of my friends made fun of me goes like oh you're one of those last year and I was like I don't know you know when the Sketchers came out everyone got those Sketchers it was kind of spiky in the bottom and then what it was like a weird Adidas knockoff oh I got a Payless knockoff yeah oh ████ and then I wore it to school and then everyone's like PayLess PayLess like everyone knew and I'm like thinking now I'm like how did they all know it was Payless if they never been to Payless but they're laughing him do I remember Payless a lot of guys would get um the moccasins that was the thing where people wear like the brown moccasins

22:54 from Payless and I would wear them too because they're mad comfy uh like everybody was wearing them and it was like the shoe wear at the time but it's Payless I never remember anything from Payless that was popular I had like a traumatic experience at Payless when I was a kid because I went there for the first time with my parents and they were like yeah just pick whatever you want and I went down the line and I found some cool Converse that were like yellow and then uh I showed it to the worker here and I was like oh do you have these I was like a little ass kid and the worker went those are for girls and you know how embarrassing that is as like a young young she was laughing she wasn't like giggling she was like straight laughing she was probably like 16. and I was like I don't want shoes here anymore mom but you know what they were they were the yellow uh converse with the Tweety Bird on it oh tight you remember those they

23:44 used to have yeah you said but Converses are unisex they had Looney Tunes characters on him and that's the only reason she was like those are girls shoes that's so dumb is for boys too because you wanted a Tweety Boy the boy one was the Taz one oh yeah [Music] oh [Music]

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