Yahoo News: Black teens are making the quarter-zip cool again — here’s why the trend is everywhere

[RamsayBolton]

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/black-teens-making-quarter-zip-100000221.html'

The quarter zip-plus-matcha trend is taking over TikTok, and Black boys are leading the way with the new aesthetic.

Fashion trends move faster than Fashion Nova shipping — and even faster among the youth. Quicker than you can say “ski masks,” the kids have conjured an entirely new aesthetic: a quarter-zip sweater and matcha.

Aesthetically, it’s crisp and sleek — the kind of look that says you’re either on your way to prep school or your team has an away game that afternoon. It’s giving polished, purposeful, and “I have somewhere respectable to be.” They’re usually worn in a solid, dark shade with the zipper partially down to achieve a more collared look over a button-down shirt with Dockers and a pair of loafers or dress shoes.

On TikTok, dozens of videos — and counting — show Black teens and young adults gleefully embracing the uniform, quarter zips zipped halfway up with matcha in hand like an accessory. And it’s not just a fashion moment; it’s a lifestyle. Entire skits show boys slipping into the look and suddenly adopting new decorum, new vocabulary, even new ambitions. The jokes are tongue-in-cheek, but the insight is real: style is both a tool we use and a language we speak. It signals who we are, what we want, and sometimes who we’re trying to become, even if only for fun. If only for ourselves.

So while we may never solve the age-old question — does the man make the suit, or does the suit make the man? — one thing feels clear: the quarter zip and matcha are definitely making the boys (and their bros) happy. And honestly? We say yes to anything that spreads a little more Black boy joy.

told yall

 

[Soldier]

But accordingly to racists, bedwenches and c00ns, young black men and black folks in general aren’t cool and don’t set new trends anymore. But but Black fatigue this, black fatigue that. People don’t look up to us and follow all our moves anymore. It was a thing of the past now, a relic from the “woke era”

 

[jdubnyce]

Another thread on this
Grown ass men wear quarter zips
I have several for the office
Can dress up or extra casual
They were never not cool
Or
Am I just old?

 

[BlackBall]

Another thread on this
Grown ass men wear quarter zips
I have several for the office
Can dress up or extra casual
They were never not cool
Or
Am I just old?

It’s an office space staple

 

[Elim Garak]

This is like the 5th thread about this shyt.

 

[10bandz]

All of this just perpetually online shyt. Go outside and there isnt a bunch of young nikkas running around with quarter zips and matcha. nikkas dressing up to make tiktok content and media runs with it like it's real life.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Its fukking Yahoo
MAGA probably losing their minds in them comments

 

[Meowth tote da Uzi]

The trend is now just solely based off of how many threads yall making.

 

[ORDER_66]

Damn they really be watching everything we do...

 

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

I can't wait until elon makes that rocket ship and white people think going to mars is the new trend so they can go away

 

[Bigen King]

Been rockin QZips for a hot min.

Next is time to ban those shiesty masks

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

And just like that the trend is dead
They hate is so much but follow our every move

 

[LiveFromLondon]

Lol why is nikkas mad over this, let em young boys have some fun