street fashion

Street fashion is fashion that is considered to have emerged not from studios, but from the grassroots. Street fashion is generally associated with youth culture, and is most often seen in major urban centers. Magazines and Newspapers like the New York Times and Elle commonly feature candid photographs of individuals wearing urban, stylish clothing.  Japanese street fashion sustains multiple simultaneous highly diverse fashion movements at any given time. Mainstream fashion often appropriates street fashion trends as influences. Most major youth subcultures have had an associated street fashion. Examples include:

• Hippies (denim, bohemian style, long hair, flower power and psychedelic imagery, flared trousers)
• Teddy Boys (drape jackets, drainpipe trousers, crepe shoes)
• Punk fashion (ripped clothing, safety pins, bondage, provocative T-shirt slogans, Mohican hairstyle)
• Skinheads (short-cropped hair, fitted jeans, Ben Sherman button-up shirts, Fred Perry polo shirts, Harrington jackets, Dr. Martens boots)
• Gothic fashion (black clothing, heavy coats, poet shirts, big boots, makeup)
• Preppy (argyle sweaters, chinos, madras, Nantucket Reds, button down Oxford cloth shirts, and boat shoes)
• Hip hop fashion (ultra-baggy pants, ECKO, Tribal Gear, South Pole, Avirex, FUBU, Sean Jean, NIKE)
• Hipster (glasses, jeans, beanies, sneakers, ties, suspenders)
• Rasta (African-inspired clothing, rastacap, dreadlocks)
• Greaser (subculture) (Levis 501 jeans, T-shirts, leather jackets, sunglasses, Cowboy boots or motorcycle boots, hair gel)
• Urban (colorful apparel, large accent jewelry, skinny jeans, jackets, T-shirts)
• Feminine (dresses, hats, sunglasses, hand bags, floral prints)
• Kawaii ( tutu skirts, pastel and pink colors, anime inspirated accessories ( wild hair clips, bows) )