Definitions

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  • noun fashion The type of trendy fashion that can be worn on the street

Etymologies

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street +‎ -wear

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Examples

  • Lafayette Street between Houston and Prince right now can only be described as a streetwear perfect ...

    Curbed 2009

  • Lafayette Street between Houston and Prince right now can only be described as a streetwear perfect ...

    Eater National 2009

  • This is yet another great collaboration by RockersNYC, setting it apart from many other brands, as the jump in between different markets, namely streetwear and a more high end fashion market.

    Highsnobiety.com 2008

  • For this reason, the architects of the scene continue to labor increasingly over new videos, and as you may have seen on sites such as streetwear enthusiast and fixed-gear impresario Prolly's blog the long-awaited New York City contribution to the canon, "Empire," is supposedly about to "drop."

    Enhanced Performance: Oiling the Squeaky Wheel BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Spend too much money on "streetwear" to fall down in it?

    From the BSNYC Culture Desk: Trickery BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • Pacific Sunwear, whose d.e.m.o. division catering to casual teen "streetwear" has been struggling, said sales dropped 9.4% from last August.

    The Eagle Has Landed 2006

  • Now, as some of you fools may know, especially if you're into the whole "streetwear" thing,

    TheShoeGame.com - Sneakers & Information TokyoMike 2009

  • and comparatively affordable, first-to-Las Vegas retailers such as streetwear label All

    latimes.com - News 2011

  • The Hundreds product is sold in limited quantities in the world†™ s most prestigious streetwear and skate boutiques and has also been featured as a cover story in such media as the Los Angeles Times, New York Times Magazine, Antenna, Giant Robot, KoreAm, MuchMusic Television, and Inc. magazine.

    Limited Edition Stan Sakai shirts go on sale this Saturday | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • Erik Brunetti, proprietor of the FUCT clothing and as early a developer/proponent of what is now termed "Street Art" as exists, is shopping his polaroid portrait of the now-legendary stenciler shot in the early 1990s at Slam City Skates, the then-UK distributor for Bruneti's influential streetwear label.

    Mat Gleason: January '11 L.A. Art World Gossip Mat Gleason 2011

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