Hip-Hop

Style

Teenagers who listen to the same music often have a common look. One hot style in music and fashion is a hip-hop. Simply put, hip-hop is a type of urban music with a heavy beat. Typical hip-hop fashion are loose fitting street clothes. The style includes baggy pants, sweatshirt. Hiking boots,baseball caps (usually worn backward), jackets with sport logos and expensive athletic shoes. In the hip-hop style, boys and girls often dress the same way.

African-American kids in Detroit and Chicago first made hip-hop fashion trend more than 20 years ego. They wore baggy street clothes to dance clubs. Then North American and European bands also began wearing this style. Thanks to the popularity of music videos and movies, hip-hop soon became an international fashion sensation.

Teens around the world, from Britain to South Africa to Japan , now wear hip-hop clothing. Seventeen years old Melanie Borrow, of Machester, England, says."My pride and joy in life are my levi's jeans." In the United States, teens spend a lot of money on hip-hop fashion. David Bowen, 17, of Evanston, lllinois, has five pairs of hiking boots, each costing around $ 100. David says, "They're populer because a lot of hip-hop performers wear them."