I don't have pics but a BIG item of clothing to wear during the colder months were Starter jackets. Back then, they were the shit among black folks. During my "heyday" I was always spotted wearing my baby blue UCLA jacket. $75+ jackets. It was also a big thing to wear college logos instead of the Major League Baseball gear. You didn't see many NBA or MLB stuff then. It was really NCAA and a few NFL. They would also wear jeans/slacks type pants with suspenders. But we would wear the suspenders dangling from our sides. I had a pic of me in an outfit, but I can't find it right now. I had a pair of houndstooth print pants that I would wear. Also big was wearing shirts with a big Japanese symbol in the middle.
Chuck Taylors, Adidas, British Knights, Pony and Fila were huge in the shoe department. All hi-tops, of course. Vans got real big in the early to mid 80s. Especially Vans made without shoelaces; like slip-ons and checkerboard pattern. Another shoe fad was the "thick as hail" shoelaces. And mixed up colors and checkerboard laces. I think that style fell more towards skaters and such when the 90s started coming through.
The hats, as above, were mostly NCAA and NFL teams. It got very trendy in the mid to late 80s to wear them backwards. Rarely were they ever worn cocked to the side.
Later, QD.





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