Why Is It That Blacks No Longer Support Black Owned Clothing Lines? Why Do We Love Ralph Lauren?

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[@OffHalsted]

Puma Underwear >Polo underwear$15 cheaper

 

[The M.I.C.]

Breh, they are both around. They were hot because they were what black entertainers wore. You can't be blind to the correlation.
They simply fell out of style.

Kan I? Yes We Kan! – Karl Kani

^^^You can still buy. You remember this?

Those brands were known because they were hot with our idols. Its called advertising.
White-owned brands die every day, too. Asking us why people buy the most successful brands are like asking why people still buy Jay Z albums. He is proven. People are gonna buy
off name recognition alone. Thats how most shyt works. Its not that difficult.

Ayo, on some real shyt..Kani's new shyt looks pretty clean. I might have to look at coppin some joints off there.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Both are white owned companies. Jordan smart enough to know that if he shook Nike and started his own shoe line nikkas would turn their backs on him .

Those are CONTRACTS? And it doesn't matter they are still by BLACK people and those two BLACK PEOPLE(MJ and Lebron) get paid every time a person gets their shoes.

 

[KeysT]

Polo got good quality.Them hoodies are A1

Until you wash them.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Only on the coli do real people look at something at the store or on TV and be like "is this black owned??"

We all have lives to live. Ain't nobody with a real life sitting around thinking they need or want something and ask who owns it and if they are black or white or whatever.

People making the real money in this world don't have time for that shyt. They are out making MONEY

 

[Cat piss martini]

Good looks on the name drop.
just gave Karl Kani 175$ with tax
for the black hoodie.

 

[philmonroe]

The main reason that I wouldn't start a clothing line is because nikkas are so fickle when it comes to fashion. Gucci and Polo never advertised to us yet we have such brand loyalty towards those companies. You never seen a Polo Ad in The Source or XXL. We don't know who owns True Religion but I'm willing to bet its not a Black man. Sure a black clothing line can have a nice little run like FUBU or RW did but they're never mainstays like the white clothing lines are.

Foh

 

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[Bawon Samedi]

And also can the OP and others stop shaming black folks on how they should spend their money? There are HARDLY any high end black fashion designers or any black designers that make suits similar to Gucci, Ralph Lauren and others. If so then let us all know. If there were more black clothing lines like Gucci then I bet blacks WOULD buy them if they were popular.

What blacks should do is capitalize or urban street wear which we had on lock back then. High end fashion designers have always been European, this is nothing new.

 

[At30wecashout]

Yup. Same reason people still drinking Bud Light in 2016. shyt is piss water and there are many better beers out there. But they been watching Bud Light commercials their whole life so that's what they pick when they go to the bar or liquor store.

These companies spend Multi-Millions on ads because they know these idiots are sheep.

I hate when some dumbass sees a commercial about a beer let's use "Shocktop" for example and ask me if I've tried it. Sheep I tell you sheep.

When I worked at the corner store, I used to see people buying corona and asking if we sold limes Old habits die hard, and you gotta do extra shyt

to get people to pay attention to the new. Folks looked at me crazy when I was paying $10 for 6 beers, when they were ok paying $6 for a 12 pack of bullshyt.

Why? Cause thats what they have always bought. Cornerstones are cornerstones.

FUBU didn't fall off because they stopped advertising breh. White clothing lines don't have to advertise for nikkas to crave it. I never seen a Louis Vuitton advertisement yet if someone bought you a Louie shirt you'd be happy as fukk.

You would be wrong. I'm a skate rat, so im perfectly fine wearing T-shirts and khakis that I won't feel sick over when I tear them up. Same with shoes. I get whats comfortable
and what isn't expensive, and the extra special dressy shyt is for special occasions, in which case brand don't matter, just that I like it.

FUBU fell off cause of shyt like this

Not cause of Nsyncbut for the most part, you were being overcharged for glorified graphic tees. People fukked with the brand cause Hip Hop fukked with the brand.

You gonna act like white people don't buy into dumb shyt because their favorite pop stars wore it? Betcha most of the "clean" white folks can tell you of the phase where they were

wearing wallets with chains and shyt like this

Those fell out of favor too. Things come and go.

 

[philmonroe]

To me, most black clothing lines haven't really kept up with changing trends. Most of it has to do with them not having the disposable income to overhaul their inventory and things like that.

This is moreso what it is esp,with the brands that nikkas on here mostly mention. Stupid nikkas talking about wearing fukking fubu (which was always wack to me) in 2016. Like come the fukk on fam. When that shyt was rolling it was rolling but now like you said most of them brands haven't adapted and or went out of business but some cats on here wanna whine like bytches with this faulty logic like OP

 

[philmonroe]

When I worked at the corner store, I used to see people buying corona and asking if we sold limes Old habits die hard, and you gotta do extra shyt

to get people to pay attention to the new. Folks looked at me crazy when I was paying $10 for 6 beers, when they were ok paying $6 for a 12 pack of bullshyt.

Why? Cause thats what they have always bought. Cornerstones are cornerstones.

You would be wrong. I'm a skate rat, so im perfectly fine wearing T-shirts and khakis that I won't feel sick over when I tear them up. Same with shoes. I get whats comfortable
and what isn't expensive, and the extra special dressy shyt is for special occasions, in which case brand don't matter, just that I like it.

FUBU fell off cause of shyt like this

Not cause of Nsyncbut for the most part, you were being overcharged for glorified graphic tees. People fukked with the brand cause Hip Hop fukked with the brand.

You gonna act like white people don't buy into dumb shyt because their favorite pop stars wore it? Betcha most of the "clean" white folks can tell you of the phase where they were

wearing wallets with chains and shyt like this

Those fell out of favor too. Things come and go.

Aw man not the. JNCO/hot topic/Hardy Boys pants. In HS it was a ton of cats mainly white on that shyt. Even though I did buy tshirts from hot topic back then lol

 

[At30wecashout]

Ayo, on some real shyt..Kani's new shyt looks pretty clean. I might have to look at coppin some joints off there.

I was looking at the site hard, but everything has pictures on it, just about, the very reason I was arguing why most of those brands fell off. Way too much shyt on it that grown folks
just won't wear. This one stood out to me



But this is the front of it



for $125 dollars.I could literally take the template of the artwork, get a clean sweatshirt, do some work in Photoshop, and hit a local printer and get the same
thing for $60 or less. These brands end up becoming super Niche, but if you enjoying some shyt,

 

[REdefinition]

I don't think its as simple as blacks not wanting to support blacks. If that was the case, wouldn't have supported the Karl Kanis, Fubus, and Sean John's in the first place. FAshion isn't really a good example because the industry itself is fickle as hell. One minute its polo, then iceberg, then its evisu, then trues, etc. People are always looking for the "next hot trend." that's why clothing lines are some of the riskiest businesses to start.

The reason companies like Gucci stay popular is they've consistently branded themselves as "elite". The minute they lower their prices and start marketing to the every day regular Joe is when they'll go out of business. Black people like feeling like we have "one up on" the next brotha so we aspire for things that are "just out of reach" from the next person. I don't have the link but Dame Dash did an extensive interview on just this. He explained that brands actually pay to have their clothes in stores like Macys and Saks. It cuts into their profits but its done to keep the brand "exclusive." Its easier to hype people into thinking they're buying some elite sh*t if you can say "we're sold Saks" as opposed to carrying the same gear at Target.