Street fashion
Street fashion is a term used to describe 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. 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, T-shirts, 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 ("Doc Martens") boots)
- Gothic fashion (black clothing, heavy coats, poet shirts, big boots, makeup).
- Hip hop fashion (501 Levis, ECKO, South Pole, Avirex, Sean Jean, NIKE)
Street fashion online
Street fashion has been widely studied and documented on various fashion blogs. Some of the most notable street style blogs are The Sartorialist by Scott Schuman, Facehunter by Yvan Rodic and GadeMode by Mathias Vestergaard. These photo blogs publish photos of regular people in the streets.
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