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. Both are read here as 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
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. |