Tag: Fashion

For Us By Us: An Urban Classic

The night of Valentine’s Day was just another day. A regular day. No plans, no love in my life, nothing. As usual, I was scrolling on Instagram and happened to see a sponsored post on my news feed, something about the new FUBU and Puma collaboration. Quickly, it caught my attention. Turns out to be launch event with the founder of FUBU himself, Mr. Daymond John. I know y’all remember FUBU. The same brand everybody was rocking in the early 2000’s. LL Cool J was one of the people I remember seeing on TV wearing it and it was so dope so I was really excited and decided to make a trip to the Queens Center Mall the next day for this moment. The next day came, I got ready, of course I had to get fresh, it’s a must. LOL! I even pulled out my vintage FUBU blue windbreaker jacket so that when I knew when my moment came to meet this guy, I wanted to show how much of a fan I am of his clothing brand. The event started at 4. I got to the mall around 2:30 and I was nice and early. I forgot to mention that the post on Instagram said that the first 25 people who show up gets a free $50 Puma gift card, I was the eighth person on line. 2 hours went by and it was finally time to go inside. When my time came, I got my card and went straight inside. When I finally went inside of the Puma store, they had the entire store set up just like a red carpet event. DJ Drewski From HOT 97 was inside spinning all of the dope hip hop joints and there were these dudes lined up and everyone including the employees were rocking their fresh FUBU/Puma joints. Head to toe. I waited patiently to meet Daymond and finally I did. Just like I thought, meeting the man himself was another dope moment for me. He even showed me love for the windbreaker jacket and signed a little flyer for me. I copped me a red medium exclusive Puma/FUBU shirt to rock with my Puma’s this summer. It’s a must. I paid for my shirt and even got a free copy of Daymond John’s book called “Rise And Grind.” He signed my book and I left. I left with such an euphoric feeling. Excited to be able to meet yet another legend in hip hop culture and even have something exclusive that not everybody will have. I will also be reading that book. Definitely has some gems in it I can learn and use for myself because fashion is my thing too.

Introducing… 2Dope4KidzClothing

For the first time ever, I’ll be talking about something different. Something that is hip hop related but not so much about hip hop. I’m always on my Instagram coming across something dope or it comes across me. LOL! Clothing brands often come up on my feed, especially those that are closely related to what my account and posts are about and I came across this clothing brand that really blew me away. There’s so many different types of clothing brands all over social media these days. They’re either similar to what’s trending and popular or it gives you a sense of nostalgia. I’ve seen so many but there is one particular name brand that caught my attention and I was fortunate enough to even gain a friendship with the owner of the brand. We got to know one another and even spoke about a few things we have in common and we both eventually came to an agreement that I do this article. I personally feel like everyone needs to get up on this brand right here. Had to ask my homegirl a couple of questions so that people can get a better idea of who she is and what she’s about. My homegirl is definitely one dope individual and of course, I only deal with dope things and dope people only. Miesha Swain is her name. She’s a 30 year old Alabama native with a clothing company named 2Dope4KidzClothing.

What sparked the idea?
Well, I think as for me I would have to say when I was undeveloped like in my teens was not sure it was called an entrepreneur, but I was quite a teen from my other peers.

What’s the inspiration?
The next part of the question is relatively intriguing because growing up in my family they were all great individuals, and always was taught to always have your own and work hard for it.

Who inspired you?
The inspiration was my BIGMAMA (the backbone of our family) She is fairly a strong black woman that I speak highly of. The 90s culture, music, actresses and actors, and the clothing brands such as Stussy, Cross Colours, Nike, Supreme, and many more.

Did you get any help or did you do it all alone?
Honestly, I have been doing this on my own financially, but my fiancé has make incredible designs for me and has taught me a little about the software, if push ever come to shove. I can design my next T-shirt, hats, or whatever we plan to create in the future.

If you want to get into contact with Miesha, you can add her on Facebook at Miesha Gray. Follow her brand on Instagram @2dope4kidz_clothing. Check her out, support dope fashion.

MALE ROMPERS?

This entire week men rompers have been the hot topic. There has been talk on the news, memes on Facebook and conversations between total strangers.

Some people are not in favor of men wearing rompers. Their reason is because rompers are worn by women. It is even associated with homosexuality.

Rompers were originally donned by infants and small children but have been recently trending in the fashion world.

People please get a grip. Everyone possesses the freedom of choice. If a man decides to wear a romper please respect his decision. That does not make him gay or any less of a man. Judge not as you will be judged first.

This is the world according to Regina.

Ya Gotta Have the Right SKILLS!

A little more than a week ago, as usual I got a message from this dude about how dope he thinks my Instagram account is and how much he enjoys old school hip hop. Automatically, I knew this is someone I had to associate myself with. Anybody that’s into hip hop is cool with me but old school hip hop, you’re definitely cool in my eyes. Anyways, me and this guy had a few words with each other and he tells me about himself. This guy goes by the name Skills. He’s a 26 year old artist from New York who started a movement with another artist named Gifted, called NxtSkool, and also has a dope designer and has a clothing line but he only sells hats and tees. He personally sent me this really dope Biggie Smalls tee and I was really happy about that because I’m a huge Biggie Smalls fan. You can never go wrong with some Biggie. After checking out a few of his hats and tees, I definitely had to check out the music. After doing some research on the website, I finally came across the NxtSchool YouTube channel and hit play on this joint called “[Nxt]Style, Vol. 1.” This joint to me is an original. Doesn’t sound like what everybody else is doing, whether mainstream or underground, the flow is simple but it’s dope, you can hear the hunger and energy in Skills’ voice. Definitely, Skills can be the next dopest thing in hip hop. Even though there are already so many artists who do both music and fashion, Skills definitely has his own thing going on. It’s doesn’t remind me of anybody else, not that it’s a bad thing if it does but it’s original. Check out Skills on Instagram @Skills_Nxt, check out the gear @NxtSkoolStore and subscribe to the YouTube channel, Nxt Skool and check out their official website NxtSkool.com.