Hip-Hop Fashion vs Zoot Suit
ヒップホップ・ファッション / ズートスーツ
Hip-Hop Fashion comes from Street Style and Zoot Suit from Subculture Style. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Hip-Hop Fashion
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Bronx youth culture turned sportswear and gold into a language of self-expression, and in fifty years it travelled from the street to the center of luxury.
Zoot Suit
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The earliest street style: suits with wildly exaggerated shoulders and pegged trousers, by which Black and Mexican-American youth asserted their existence in a discriminatory society.
| Hip-Hop Fashion | Zoot Suit | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1970s– | 1930s–1940s |
| Family | Street Style | Subculture Style |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Sneakers and tracksuits / Gold chains / Oversize / Logos flaunted and remade | Exaggerated shoulders / Knee-length jackets / Pegged wide trousers / Long watch chains |
| Best used for | Music and sports projects that must show street authorship, not borrow it · Logo led products designed as the wearer's own assertion of self | Tailoring a garment whose exaggerated proportion is itself the statement · Clothes for dancing whose outline lines up when a group stands together |
| Type | Blow the logo up and let lettering carry the image | No lettering, the chain and the tilt of the hat do the signalling |
| Composition | Cut larger than the body and drop the weight low | Wide shoulders, jacket to the knee, trousers pegged hard at the ankle |
| Material | Track fabric, gold, white sneakers kept deliberately box fresh | Generous heavy worsted cut in one light color throughout |
| Caution | Borrowing the signs while erasing where they came from reads as theft, and the display loses the ground that made it mean anything. | Toning down the shoulder and the peg removes the tension in the proportion and leaves an oversized vintage suit. Do not use it as costume, since it carries a history of racism and riots. |