Tuesday, February 26, 2008

2008 Or 88'?

The 80’s were quite a while ago, fast forward to 2008, and it comes right back. I should have listened to a good friend that made a very stark prediction at the end of 2006 who said that the 80s were going to return. I step out side, and its 85’ again today. But why has the youth decided to run back to the days of the snap caps, old flair and timeless skinny jeans? More importantly people have now started to bring back color into the scheme. But why is the question. Color perhaps? I think so.
There was a time when all one needed to do was to put on a white t-shirt and accommodating sneakers in order to look presentable. Today it’s a storm of color! I see kids walking down the street with the full color wheel on their dunks, and a similar Alife t-shirt, with a jacket that is 24 different shades of neon green. Its wild to me, and perhaps it is a sign of the times, or maybe history repeating itself. Kids today walking around looking good now are in more of a need to in essence “Pop Out,” or get noticed. Walking around in the flair of the 80s does it for many reasons. Against the back drop of a city a person walking around looking like a glowing neon Will Smith circa 86’ with catch my attention better than someone walking in a leather jacket and boots. The sneaker company Puma has decided to take a time machine back to the mid 80s with the new Yo! MTV Raps series. Granted the shoes are nice and the colors are pretty awesome to say the least, I cannot shake the notion of returning to my birth period. Reebok has also been a perpetrator re-releasing various shoes back on to the market most notably the Pump, and Reverse Jam shoes.
In essence, is the world of street wear shot because we cannot elaborate any further into the future? I think not, I think that color is here to stay, it is just being reinvented through the 80s and the youth choosing to wear that particular garments.