[Photo by GadeMode]
Yall–I used to think that only wearing Yankees/Dodgers caps were alt/’hip hop authentic’ or whatever. I don’t know if this guy is wearing an Arizona Diamondbacks hat because he likes the team, or he saw it and realized it coordinated with his zany purplish outfit, or because it’s a ‘random obscure hat’ in the foreign country that he lives in.
It’s weird 2 think about our global ‘thrift store’ economy. On my side of the world, the jersey of a popular Professional Japanese Gymnastics team might be ‘ironic/alt’, but on the Eastern side of the world, it would be ‘mainstream.’ I guess that’s why American Appy’s brand is s0 global–there are no unique identifiers (except sometimes stripes/Afrikaan prints).
soo weird how the internet is uniting alts around the world into a global scene that we all need 2 b passionate about. We have a responsibility 2 do more research instead of just putting on clothes with logos that we don’t truly understand. It would kinda be like wearing a sillie shirt with a ‘nazi brand logo.’
but srsly, do yall believe in aligning alternative personal brands with ‘iconic/ironic baseball caps’, or do u think it’s a little bit too ‘urban streetwear fashion asshole’ish?
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g0 dodgers!!!
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caps are too ‘urban streetwear fashion asshole’ish’ tons o bros wear em. more like aligning with brodouches than obscure/alt sports team.
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The a priori baseball hat is shit. 2 dad/bro/hood. Worse when flipped backwards. The coordinated baseball hat (like in the picture) is a gambit (one could argue that the very act of wearing a non-winter hat is 2 douchey 2 consider) that can pay off by signaling a rare mix of both “authenticity” (odd cause you don’t care about the team) and metromasculine cool. Personally, I’d never attempt it.
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As an Arizona resident I feel like reppin’ the D-backs is pretty alt since everyone hates them anyways or thinks they are a huge disappointment
Go Cardinals (football)
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too ‘urban streetwear fashion asshole’ish
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These lurid barbarians want crushing.
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that guy should decapitate himself.
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Kind of like douchebag tatoos. “I got it cause’ it’s deep man” You have NO idea what it means so stop acting like you do.
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oh this is just great, we laugh now, but we will be paying later. hard to imagine that this young swinging dick will be a grandfather someday- managing to spawn a small army of ingratiating heathens who will single handily strangle our means-tested government transfer system
that survive off the fat of the land
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DB’s ferhserr. check out the steed lord picy on the DB.net house blog blog (http://www.discobelle.net/)
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c.y.o.h. CHOOSE YOUR OWN HEADGEAR
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i only wear the hats my mother knits me
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i havent worn any form of a hat since my birth. if its cold out i put on ironic hoodies.
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this hat is NATIVE UH-MERICAN wear. like, duh.
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St. Pauli FC in hamburg are pretty alt, their logo is a pirate flag and they support gheys
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man what i know hella altbros that wear baseball caps
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ROCKIES!!
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yo wtf. that dude was at Mad Fools in the Park, the free Santogold, A-Trak, Diplo… show in central park this summer. He was backstage and some girl i was with kept saying she knew him and eventually went backstage with him. She was under the impression he was Steve Aoki because she kept telling me how her friend kinda dated him and he was the son of the Benihana guy and he just does coke all day. SO, im guessing she was lieing, never went backstage with him, and was mistaken that he was Aoki. Either way this guy was wearing a even more ridiculous outfit when i saw him and he sucks.
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the Douche-Backs logo is pretty alt, very thriftcore (@ an indian reserv)
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he doesnt live in another country hes from nyc :P
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convenient placement of fanny-pack to hid tiny asian genitals. what a dbag.
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Charles:
Check out what I found. This Arizona Diamondbacks trend might be catching on. This group of alts looks to be cutting edge and the real deal:
http://www.discobelle.net/2008/09/08/steed-lord-thirst-to-burst/
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He lives in my neighborhood.
I saw him post on craigslist looking for a girlfriend.
He needs a tug :(
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I saw this guy last summer down on Broadway in SoHo. He had a ghetto blaster on his shoulder and tourists were taking pictures of him. I LOL’d
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serious post:
1970s pittsburgh pirates baseball hat
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