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Hip-hop Fashions


Teenagers who listen to the same music often have a common "look." One hot style in music and fashion is hip-hop. Hip-hop is a type of urban music with a heavy beat. The lyrics are very important in this music. Hip-hop fashions are large or loose-fitting street clothes.
The style includes baggy jeans, sweatshirts, hiking boots, and baseball caps(usually worn backward). However, teens add other clothing items like flannel shirts, jackets with sports logos, and athletic shoes. In the hip-hop style, boys and girls dress the same.

African American kids in Detroit and Chicago first made hip-hop fashions popular - they wore baggy street clothes to dance clubs. Then North American and European bands also began wearing this style. These bands influenced on another's music and clothing. This mixture made hip-hop into an international fashion sensation.

Hip-hop is now a teen fashion from Britain to Korea. Melanie Borrow, 17, of Manchester, England, says, "My pride and joy in life are my Levi's jeans." In Korea, hip-hop is replacing the usual outfit for teenage girls: blouses and skirts with cartoon characters on them. And in the United States, teens spend a lot of money on hip-hop fashions. David Bowen, 17, of Evanston, Illinois, have five pairs of hiking boots at $100 each. Bowen says, "They're popular because a lot of hip-hop performers wear them. They even rap about them."