Juvenile Delinquent is the name of the brand, and their namesake pretty much captures what they’re all about. Typically featuring dark denim with loud ‘Asian’ patterns embroidered on each of their garments, JD appeals to a certain segment of the Japanese market who have adopted and remixed the whole hip-hop/gangsta style.
Some of these jeans interest me greatly as pieces of art, and a few I might even consider owning, but sadly, a lot of what I see from Juvenile Delinquent are items that I just couldn’t pull off wearing on any given day.
Perhaps if I was a low-ranking yakuza solider with a deep tan, cornrows and a budding MMA career, I could walk out of my apartment feeling confident with the whole JD look. But as of now, I’d probably just come off as a bizarre fake gangster/confused foreigner mishmash that would shock and offend everyone around me. Then again, isn’t that often the goal of Japanese youth fashion?!
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Is that how asian gangsters dress? Not bad I’d say!
Lovin’ those jeans in the middle! Art pieces indeed..
Never heard of them before, but god the detailing is fantastic. Pair on the right are the best. . .
any idea of prices?
How stupid to call this “hip hop” or “thug/gangsta” style. It certainly doesn’t look that way to me – and I would know. In fact, it looks like loose jeans with ugly patterns on them. What’s hip hop, thug, or even gangsta about this? And if you’re implying that it’s hip hop, thug, or gangsta because black people wear this particular style – your post is ignorant and so are the comments here. If they were imitating “black” style then you would be better off saying this is an Asian interpretation of the “Urban Black” look. You may not be aware of this, but latinos, whites, asians, indians, and arabs in urban USA communities wear baggy jeans with prints. And even some NON thugs, non gangsta, non hip hop urban blacks wear this style. And you don’t need a deep tan, corn rows, and a “low rank” to wear it. Get over yourself – “certain segments of the population.” Whatever. It’s probably great that you can’t “pull off the look” as you say. Nothing worse than someone with a concave butt and an A- cup size trying to wear some apple bottom jeans or baby phat or any other urban gear designed to fit people with curves and physiques.
Not everyone is obssessed with the emo/androgynous/yaoi look you europeans and euro wanna bes have “adopted and remixed.”
jojobones, I think you looked way too into the description and got misguidedly offended, or you’d like to be.
There’s nothing in the description that mentions anything about black people or black youth or anything at all about urban Americans. The closest race the author described in his metaphor for a stereotypical guy wearing this was a Japanese low-ranking yakuza thug who emulates American urban fashion and culture.
I hope you go out one day and check out the American urban brands like Ecko, Rocawear, Phat Farm, Fubu, etc. If you notice, they like it big and baggy, to emulate the thug style of liking it big and baggy. If you follow its roots, it’s because thugs and gangsters wear baggy clothes so they can conceal weapons easier, and it turned into fashion from there.
Those brands are mostly targeted to Black-American youth, and it’s no surprise, because most of the brands are made BY Black-Americans.
But I can understand your point. For a Japanese brand denim with Asian patterns, it’s easy to confuse with “black people fashion” which is just so racist.
Or maybe just you.
Anon,
Just wanted to elaborate a little. The reason “thugs” and “gangsta’s” wear that type of clothing was because when we were growing up in the “projects”, 99% of our clothing were hand-me-downs from older siblings or cousins. It was that “fashion” that became big.
We took what we had and made it look good. I say “we”, because all of us that grew up on Government lived this life BEFORE Gangsta Rap and Big Clothing were seen as “fashion”.
Peace and Unity