I really didn’t get to show off this hat to y’all too much yesterday. I copped it from Paragon last week. People might sleep on Paragon Sporting Goods as a spot to score some lifestyle I.T.s but I have come up on rugbys and knits for the super low.
Get it?
Super ‘Lo.
POLO USA ski hat = $65
Ski lodge stunt factor = priceless
I stays on that comicbook superhero hypebeast shit.
Copped for $52 at NiketownNYC.
Peace to my peoples.
And I’m gone.
Even tho’ Eric B ran with a mob of dudes from Walt Whitman Houses (Fort Greene projects) including the O.G. Fifty Cent his style of fly apparel was that of a Harlem paper chaser. Polo, Bally and Fila was how the Brooklyn cats got dipped. The above pictured Dapper Dan Gucci ensemble was the shit you saw on the backs of the drug dealers from Uptown.
You see, the pushers were the only dudes who could afford these tailormade outfits. Gucci, MCM, YSL and Louis Vuitton (actually back then LV wasn’t even the shit) were expensive enough in the flagship 5th Avenue stores but you couldn’t find any XL or XXL pieces. So Dapper Dan started his customizing business and it became synonymous with Harlem’s swagger.
Years later Gucci’s lead designer Tom Ford would swagger jack the streets when he designed the all-over monogram jackets that would bring the company back into prominence. It’s a curious tradeoff that the streets give to high end designers. The streets believe these rags ascribe affluence. The rag dealers also want the credibility and the desire of the streets.
I have a few quotes here in this piece at XXLmag.com featuring some of the lifestyles greatest and well known connoisseurs.
You know I had to make a Black Friday SFU video?!?
SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!: Black Friday from dallas penn on Vimeo.