Snap it Back

Close your eyes for a second and pretend your in the 1990s now think back to every iconic sports moment, Jordan in his prime, Bret Favre, John Elway the greats as we know it. Now think about there style—their swag if you will. After every magical moment they produced they were crowned with a snap back hat, one with their teams logo and bright colors representing our favorite sport teams of the 1990s. These hats don’t just represent sports franchises of our past and current, but they represent an era in sports dawned by perfection and style. Today these snap backs are back, from street style stores like Supreme, Coat of Arms NYC and Flight Club—if you want it you can find it, but you are going to pay the price. When shopping at stores like these they tend to jack up the price because of their name and the rarity of the specific goods they sell. I tend to search in other places to find gems; I usually hit the streets to find venders that sell the hats for as low as 10 bucks a pop. It shows that as long as your willing to search for something you can find it. So why exactly is the trend so popular right now? One thing is that it represents the past, events and memories that we hold dear to us, the other reasons is that it’s a reemergence of a lost fashion something that has continued to develop even past its prime, the hat you wear doesn’t represent the team on it but rather the style you are trying to achieve. Now look at pop culture from rappers to celebrities and every B-Lister in between, you can find the appearance of snap back hats, the colors and vintage old school style is what everyone now a days is trying to achieve. It should be interesting to see how this current trend develops, as people from all spectrums begin to sport it will the celebrities that dawn these hats move on to bigger and better things? Or will it continue to develop and blossom in to something even bigger? I guess well just have to see for now but one thing is for sure, if you wear a classic snap back. You are going to look good.