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HIP-HOP FLOPS
New York Post ^ | 12/14/04 | SUZANNE KAPNER

Posted on 12/14/2004 1:34:45 AM PST by kattracks

A shakeout is afoot in the world of urban apparel, as sales of once red-hot labels begin to cool, analysts and industry executives said.

The across-the-board slowdown is alarming some of the major department-store retailers that had allocated a growing amount of space to these brands on the belief that the double-digit sales growth of recent years would continue, sources said.

Federated Department Stores, which operates the Macy's and Bloomingdale's chains, for instance, is seeing recent sales of urban brands decline in the double digits, compared with year-ago levels, said one person, who added: "It has everyone worried."

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Meanwhile, demand for the oversized jerseys and baggy jeans that these lines were known for dwindled, as classic looks regained popularity.

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"What we had at retail," admits Ullmann, Phat Fashion's president, "was too urban."


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fashion; hiphop; retail; urban
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1 posted on 12/14/2004 1:34:45 AM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks

People that dress that way look like idiots.


2 posted on 12/14/2004 1:36:21 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism.)
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To: ovrtaxt; kattracks
People that dress that way look like are idiots.
3 posted on 12/14/2004 1:38:02 AM PST by Paleo Conservative (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Dan Rather's got to go!)
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To: ovrtaxt; cyborg; Paleo Conservative; Xenalyte; tupac
Flava Flav:

Word!

(Adjusts theatrically oversized sunglasses. Polishes dining room clock necklace.)

4 posted on 12/14/2004 1:42:39 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Gee, the moron/thug/sociopath look is a fad? Who would have guessed?


5 posted on 12/14/2004 1:42:53 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: ovrtaxt
People that dress that way look like idiots.

People that dress that way look like idiots criminals.

6 posted on 12/14/2004 1:43:15 AM PST by radiohead (Will work for post-election tagline.)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

Yeah, love that plastic $3.99 Wal Mart clock necklace and the Jackie Onassis size glasses.

The stolen Benz hood ornament necklace is also very slick.


7 posted on 12/14/2004 1:47:17 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism.)
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To: ovrtaxt; radiohead
I don't know if anyone here has seen "UB-40", but it's one of the funniest satires of the modern Hip-hop industry-kind of like Rap goes Spinal Tap-that I've ever seen.

I can't say that the second and third viewings were quite as funny as the initial screening, but it's still one of the better mockumentaries out there.

9 posted on 12/14/2004 1:53:14 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

I'll have to check it out. Chappelle does some funny satire on hip-hop too.


10 posted on 12/14/2004 1:54:49 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism.)
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To: LogicalMs; kattracks
The urban thugs who got rich on these fads are among the most totally obnoxious and worst possible models for young people, white or black.

They would have been obscure local thugs if not for big the big name recording studios like CBS that signed them up and publicized them.

11 posted on 12/14/2004 1:55:49 AM PST by Paleo Conservative (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Dan Rather's got to go!)
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To: kattracks

Will always be 501's and boots for me.


12 posted on 12/14/2004 1:56:56 AM PST by cambodia (I've spent more Christmas's in Cambodia than Kerry)
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To: ovrtaxt
Yeah, you're certainly right about that.

The movie I referenced starred Chris Roc, in one of his earlier-funnier-cinematic roles.

He played a struggling comedian-or something, I don't recall each jot and title of the film-whose parents wanted him to make something of himself.

In the end, he becomes a poseur.

Pretending to be the Don of gangsta rap...until his front is exposed, once and for all!

13 posted on 12/14/2004 1:57:50 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
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To: kattracks

Coming next will be the spontaneous reanimation of the distal portion of the third and fourth digits of either hand, thus enabling the users to gesture and point in a polite, conventional manner.


14 posted on 12/14/2004 1:57:52 AM PST by shibumi (John Galt is alive and well. He tends bar in a casino restaurant.)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

Ah, the black Vanilla Ice. hehehe


15 posted on 12/14/2004 2:00:01 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism.)
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To: ovrtaxt
Fo' sure, dawg!
16 posted on 12/14/2004 2:03:05 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
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To: cambodia

501s are too damn tight...

I like my 569s......


17 posted on 12/14/2004 2:04:21 AM PST by MikefromOhio (27 days until I can leave Iraq for good....)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham; ovrtaxt

I got to say the nay-no, mah brothahz! It'z nuf to sine yo pitty on the runny kine.

Sa-Da-Tay!


18 posted on 12/14/2004 2:06:40 AM PST by shibumi (John Galt is alive and well. He tends bar in a casino restaurant.)
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To: shibumi

I need the cracker decoder for that one!


19 posted on 12/14/2004 2:08:50 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism.)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham
I think you mean CB-4. UB-40 is a bunch of talentless ass clowns who wish they were a real reggae band.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

20 posted on 12/14/2004 2:09:14 AM PST by wku man (Breathe...Relax...Aim...Squeeze...Smile!)
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