Friday, October 22, 2010

Urban Wear And How Can It Vary

By Teresa K Knight

Urban wear can be called as a fashion style that includes culture, lifestyles and ideas. Urban fashion sprouted from the hip hop culture of recent years. In the late 80s and until the 90s, hip hop clothing lines became available created by no less than the music performers themselves. They tried to add their unique individual creativity and style into a fashion that is already unique in itself. Urban style breaks away from the core by embracing precisely that personality by not conforming to the fads. Though it is said that urban fashion arose in New York, it rapidly spread and developed integrating influences from Europe, Asian, Caribbean and African cultures in addition to a different music genre like hip hop, punk, rock, and even indie music along the way.

Urban clothing line also sees the usefulness of things. The form and thought of urban fashion enables us to wear them on a normal day. It is often referred to as the fashion of the streets. But urban style is not street wear. The latter is usually connected with vintage sneakers and school attire that in certain locations have evolved into the punks, gothic and hippies subcultures. Urban trend is more edgy and quite often incorporates the terms "practical", "functional" and "comfortable". Urban clothing is light but they should be long lasting and look great as well.

The idea is make a clothing line that may work nicely in typical city environment. The sophisticated and extravagant core fashion makes stiff, formal and also constricting clothes not very appropriate in an atmosphere where you need to switch and adjust quickly to changing situations. And because each urban environment is slightly different, urban designs are different from city to city. Consider the urban trend of Japan for example. Modern styles, the use of the most practical of materials and the unique blending of personal and commercial styles define their urban clothes. You can find in Japan fashion subcultures like Lolita, gothic and the now popular cosplay fashion style.

Speaking of culture, the variations of urban fashion all over the world is highly specific. Because urban fashion is seated on culture, the sort of urban clothes in one country holds the influences of their specific culture. As an example, at some point in the American urban fashion scene hip hop artists which usually are African-Americans dove into their African ethnic heritage and borrowed a lot of components and bundled them in their clothes. The loose and baggy pants, the application of African bright color mixtures, the employment of African styles were then started to be a trend among artists and trickled down to the consumers.

To sum it up, urban wear and how can it differ lies mainly on the cultural heritage of the location and their originality. When compared to the mainstream and traditional fashion style, urban wear is a lot more sensible with emphasis on ease and comfort, individuality and aesthetics. The designs also target the demands of the typical urban dweller and comply with no fixed rules that we know of.

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