Customizing Your Own Fashion
Fashion is everywhere. Whether it is just wearing the newest hat from your very own collection of street caps or changing your skirt or blouse for some denim shorts, you are already displaying a fondness for fashion.
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But for serious fashion enthusiasts, fashion customization is a big deal. Nowadays, the latest fashion trend for most fashion icons is streetwear. It is probably because it is the easiest to pull off and that the masses can immediately identify themselves with fashion through their normal, everyday clothing. To be able to customize your everyday streetwear is a dream come true for the hardcore fashionista!
Starting back in the 90s, streetwear evolved from being a specialty fashion style to becoming an everyday common fashion style championed by most millennial fashion designers and enthusiasts. Even Gen-Z fashion bloggers are all still crazy about streetwear. However, the latest streetwear trend has something to do with customizing streetwear. Whether it is customizing your denim pants, jackets, T-shirts, caps or shoes, the more customizable options you have, the better. It is because streetwear is downright comfortable and trendy that it has continued to influence generations of fashion lovers and designers.
The best aspect of streetwear customization is the fact that it appeals to the creativity of the wearer. Even during its early years, streetwear was all about the wearer’s creativity. This can be seen with the use of baseball and trucker caps, bomber jackets, denim jeans, chino pants, shorts, sneakers and basketball shoes. Accessories of all kinds also come into play, such as hairpins, ribbons, colored eyeglasses and others. All of these often come in different colors and styles. Today, this has changed. Famous fashion brands are now incorporating the idea of customization into their latest fashion lines.
If you search online for customizable T-shirts, you would probably get a thousand results from companies that do customizable street shirts for a price. They would let you pick a style that you like from the selection on their website or you can send them an upload of your favorite T-shirt design. Nowadays though, one can simply take a brand new colored or white shirt and use the latest T-shirt printing technology in creating their own streetwear designs.
And it just doesn’t limit towards T-shirts and upper wear. Shoes, for instance, have also gained popularity when it comes to customizing streetwear. Most big shoe companies, such as Vans and Nike are selling customizable shoes for their customers. Van’s Custom Slip-Ons look stylish and colorful, while Nike By You is playfully centered about you becoming the shoe itself because of its limitless possibilities when it comes to customizing shoes!
Even the big fashion brands like Dolce and Gabbana are also joining the fray, with D&G’s customizable DGLIMITED sneakers as an example. The designs on the sneakers are authentic and handmade; the sneakers even feature custom embroidery and detail!
Whatever the case may be, streetwear will always be working around improvisation and customization. It is because fashion itself is all about freedom and expression. Let your passion and soul set what you feel on wearing today. Nothing can stop you!
Article written by Daniel Bailey
