ya'll was robbin' ****** of they backpacks???
I grew up in the 'hood but never really attended just straight up GRIMEY schools. However, I did hear stories about homies getting "tried" for their Jordans. One chick almost tried me for my low top baby blue XIs.... guess she thought twice about it
Oh yeah. Getting jumped/jumping dudes for Jansports was standard practice.
popping gym lockers was no joke, if you were smart, you didn't wear your fly gear on gym days.
it was daily survival growing up in the '90's.
besides jansports getting jacked, it was a big thing to get the strings attached to the zippers. also the floating nautica keychain that came with the nautica jackets.
Nah, on gym days, you didn't even bother changing in or out of your gym clothes. If it was warm you just wore your Olafs with your fly kicks and black Fab Five Nike socks around school all day. NBA and college team shorts got burn too, but Olafs had it poppin. And, none of that imitation stuff - you had to cop from 113th and Madison.
And, yeah, Jansport strings. Separate them at the end and pull out the mini string inside. Orange Nautica keychains, hard "Nike Air" keychains. I took it to next level and started hanging super tiny baby kicks off my backpacks. But that was mid 90s when TNF had eclipsed Jansports as the standard backpack, even for dudes weren't up on TNF early.
Fly nerds, nice...
to many robbery stories in NYC in the 90's...I remember I friend of mine had the leather sleeve tigerhead jkt, RL2000 bear knit, Jordan XI's..he went to change his clothes for gym, left his clothes in the locker...he went home in his gym clothes. The best part was a week later he got those same items back again.....oooh my face was GREEN. Now my list of brands besides Polo in the early 90's that you might not make it home with
1. Columbia jackets...before TNF, these jackets held it down for a few yrs, but if you had TNF before '95 you were pretty fly
2. Starter jackets and hats (G hats as well)
3. Air Jordan's
4. Nautica gooses...other then Polo, Nautical IMO had the dopest gooses (I would include triple fat goose, but Polo just did it better)
5. Jansport bags
I swear my list should be longer, but I'm drawing a blank
Our entire basketball team got robbed during an away game (at Roosevelt, I think).
Yeah - Starter jackets were no joke. I've seen dudes jump up to the window of school buses while the bus was stopped at a red light and reach in through the window and take the Starter hat off a kid sitting in his seat on the damn bus!
Columbias too - Bugaboos, Vamooses...
Add Guess leathers and Avirexes to that list too.
Loved Nautica myself, as well. ...Roll guns up in Nautica hoods and got inside parties.
Also, not gear, but Walkmans, Gameboys - it was all fair game pre-Guiliani.
Re-elect Dinkins, word to Bronsolino.
