Neighborhood x Supreme Stadium Jacket

After almost one month of negotiation, selling some of my most prized items at dirt cheap prices, I've finally received this baby.

Every single graphic you see on this jacket is luxiriously stitched, the outer shell is composed of half Rayon and half cotton, giving it a nice sheen, smooth feel and durable, breathable texture. The inner is lined to keep you warm as well.

Two inner pockets with simple linings.

The detail is breath taking, even the white stripes on the sleeves are stitched, this color-way does the jacket better justice as opposed to the all black colorway.

However, though I usually can fit into a size M, this jacket is somehow slimmer than other Neighborhood stuff, so I have to give it up and look for a size L, which is pretty much no where to be found.

Anyhow, here are a few pictures being worn, since it's going on eBay soon, let's leave some memories...





If anyone happens to have this in a size L and would like to trade, let me know, I am willing to pay extra!

Peace.

BAPE x DC

Perhaps some of us will hate on BAPE for constantly recycling the ideas from other people, you still gotta give props to BAPE for doing it well. Here is the freshly released BAPE x DC Bapestas, featuring "original" mini Batman, Superman, The Flash, and Wonderwoman themes and figures. The shoes, like the BAPE x Marvel series, will be packaged like the toys, the label on the back heels will feature nicely stitched mini Superhero heads. Check out the pictures!!!!


Pictures from CLIFFEDGE.com.jp

Ciao

BAPE BAPE BAPE

NIGO

Creator and current director of BAPE or known as its full name: A Bathing Ape

I believe most of you already know who he is, I just wanted to give him some props since I was going through all the pictures I saved from auctions and whatnot; so this post will elaborate on how he does his t shirts...

BAPE TEEs


It's truly amazing to see how Nigo can play around with this original into literally endless alterations; I mean I used to despise BAPE for the reason that all they seem to do is copy and paste; but then you gotta give this guy some props for doing it to the extreme; there are a lot of pictures so behold...the power of BAPE


Angry APE, one of the earliest creation


Starbucks

For the love of SOCCER

Mastercard

Bape x Kaws

Bape x Kaws

KISS fonts

Gucci monogram

The infamous purple camo

A camo within a camo

Neon Bape camo

The multi rainbow camo that started it all

Hollowing Bape


Andy Warhol

Behold...THE SCARFACE BAPE...in a champaign bottle! (plastic)

W/ Al Pacino printed up front

Bape x Scarface part II

Say Hello to this little shirt!



And the latest release: BAPE X DC COMICS

Well you can be rest assured that there are tons and tons more variation, it's still nice to see how much designs the guy came up.

The sole reason why he chose to produce so much variation though, is that he disliked seeing everyone wearing the same things, so Nigo created a method to produce the same product in extremely limited amount, but broaden the product line like there is no tomorrow; and thanks to this method, the tees are super stupid expensive!

More to come...

Product Report: Perks and Mini (P.A.M)

(Me in one of my favorite P.A.M t shirt "Vice Versa")

Company information:

"PAM Perks and Mini fell in love in a world called Shitland, and neither of them felt like they really fit in there. Together they planned to escape to Forevereverland, where things were much nicer. But Forevereverland was just too far away, so they decided instead to create a little bit of Forevereverland around them. They began to make things like art and toys, books, fashion, accessories, graphic design and music ??? nice things that would help them forget they still lived in Shitland. Or maybe even change Shitland so that it was a little more like the place they wanted to be???"

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Product Report:

Being a shopaholic that I am, uh no, was (not anymore due to emptied pockets), here is one brand that I highly recommend to some of you. I've tried many different street brands from different countries and regions, Perks and Mini is among them one of the brands that have the freshest, highest quality clothing that offer reasonable prices.

I first notice this brand because of their special logo: a skull that is composed of three letters - P, A, and M.

Later I'd notice the logo in some of the street fashion magazines like Smart Max, Cool, and Get On! But it wasn't until I saw this badass hoody on Grandism.com that I finally took out my credit card and make my first purchase of this brand that I had no idea of, I just love the design!



I was instantly hooked by those eyes!

Surprisingly, as I unwrapped the hoody from a nicely bagged and boxed package from Grandism.com, I was really surprised with the quality I see from the hoody. The entire hood and the eyes are all carefully stitched to perfection; a special note to the hood is that the patterns is actually divided into two parts. Here are some pictures:


The hood, beautifully stitched with silver-gray threads


The eye (one of the symbols that PAM frequently uses)
The finger is to show you how big the eyes are stitched, and how dense the threads are.

I was very very satisfied with this hoody and from then on I began searching and purchased some more of their stuff(instead of dumping so much money into Stussy...). Though their prices fall between $40-$70 a tee and $100 - $200 for a sweat-shirt, there ARE sales availible at times; and I happened to catch one of them from Firmament.com, which is having a sale on PAM right NOW!

Here are some of other dope designs that PAM offers (pictures taken from Firmament.com):


A rotten apple... what does it tell you?


A musician whose face appears as a starry night, who do you think may be?



Do you see a skull or vanity?

Despite the sickness of their designs, what makes me highly value this brand is their superb quality, from the fabric to the stitchings down to the screen prints. The screen prints are especially high quality, I can't even feel the prints!

So, that's it, I'm not trying to SELL P.A.M clothings nor I am kissing their ass, I'm just appreciating their stuff and I think some of you may want to know; I own several P.A.M gears and I must say every single one of them is worth my money spent; the quality is being close to up there with the high end brands, definitely a whole lot better than most of the street brands nowadays, but the price is actually reasonable; and if you like their designs, more power to them!

Here are some websites where you can find P.A.M clothings:

Firmament

Norsestore

Triads

UBIQ

and the official website (which I find quite annoying...)

P.A.M

REAL OR NOT?

Ever get tired of seeing all these fake stuff all over the internet, especially eBay?

When you just want to sit down and browse for some potential steals, you enter "Supreme Dunk" and hundreds of results pop out, but what are the chances of spotting a pair of dunks that actually are BOTH the Supreme dunk AND authentic?

Quite low.

And the saddest thing is, I am seeing people still paying $500+ for fake Supremes thinking they got a steal... and the buyer would leave a good feedback saying "100% authentic thanks a lot!" Be it a dual fraud or a dumbass buyer, I can't stand eBay sometimes.

I was fortunate enough to negotiate two okay deals for authentic supreme dunks back then; and from the course of searching; I've always wondered how to determine fakes as they are seriously everywhere like Starbucks are.

There were quite a few sites, some magazines that teach you how to differentiate, but then you'll never know until you buy yourself a fake pair like I did back then. The purpose of this post is to prevent you from getting owned.

So here it is, this post is dedicated solely on Supreme Dunks, but then it'll work well against other dunk SBs, they are from my experience and chances are I will be right since I've owned both the real and fake ones (or who knows, they're all fakes).

1. Cement Print

The easiest way to tell a pair of Supreme Dunks from being fake is its cement/elephant print. See the picture below, it is FAKE TO THE BONE:

Some of you may not even know, but these look so damn ugly having the knowledge that they are fake.

Fake Supreme Dunks that have textural elephant prints will have a severe brownish tone to them; please compare the picture above to the real deals below:

Authentic Supreme Dunks have a PINKISH tone to the elephant print, and if you can touch it, they are NOT PAPERY like the fake ones that peel with a few wears.

2. Tongues

This applies to virtually ALL older SBs (at least before Tiffanys, after that I gave up on SBs anyway.) Real SBs tend to have "V" or "U" shaped tongues that bend inward with a certain textual appeal to them(that makes people go "hm that looks comfy"); whereas fake SBs tend to have just straight edge that looks somehow just plain cheap and just mesh-ish.

3. Laces

Real Nike SBs ALWAYS have a better and fatter laces than fake ones; the fakes have ridiculously thin laces that just look stupid, these are the things that you can spot in pictures; Nike SB laces look oval yet flat in a way, fake ones have just round and thin laces.

4. Lace Lock (or whatever it is on the middle of the tongue)

Real Nike SBs do not necessarily have the highest quality material for that, but then fake SBs take that to the next level, they sometimes just use a 45 thread count nylon fabric, or shall I say PAPER, for that little piece, I mean the fake manufacturers need to make money right?

Here are a few pictures for example:


1. Flat tongue edge, it should be either V or U curve inward.
2. Lace Lock thing, you probably can't see on the picture, but if you have the actual shoes go check.
3. Laces are very thin
4. The elephant print is wayyyyyyyy too shitty brown.


This pair will probably get some of you fooled.
1. The cement print is new and improved, but it is still "FIRED", because the overall texture is too smooth with no leather feel; there are no pink tone to it, meaning it is probably printed.
2. The fakes still manage to repeat their mistakes by using thin ass laces.
3. The tongues now look more authentic, it is puffy and all that, but the edge still fails to be curvy, I guess the fake makers just can't figure this one out.



1. A clearer view of the edge of the tongue, no cigar.
2. I'm sorry but I don't recall Supreme Dunks come with blue laces, these people should really do some homework, this is such an instant give-a-way.

5. BOX

The boxes are another givaway, however, it is quite hard and unsafe to just rely on the box. Generally, if the fakes are cheap, don't expect them to use high quality boxes either; the fakes will have the fonts and all that copied, but they will ALWAYS fail on the quality:



The sticker color is way off its box color

Here is the real thing:


6. Price

But hey, even if you know ALL the little things about fakes, you are still bound to get some whack fakes, because people will simply put on REAL pictures and sell you fakes so you don't know, when your cement print starts peeling off and you try to find them, eBay tells you that they are "No longer registered member" so you will shut the hell up.

Anyway, price is one thing you can determine, there will be no freaking way you can get a pair of Supreme Dunk DS or NDS for $350 BIN, unless you are extremely lucky, and if you have to read what I have to say, you are NOT lucky. So, take a second to rationalize whether the price is too good to be true, (actually when you buy from me it's always too good to be true, because I'm always desperate for cash, but then I will NOT sell my supremes for $350 bin, even if they're used!)

7. Feedback/Credibility

So, here comes the last check, ALWAYS check the feedback scores, don't just check them, because some of these snakes buy 100 stamps for 5 dollars and then sell 10 normal air maxes for retail prices to fool you into thinking that they're really authentic. So always carefully study their feedback scores before you make your purchase; be sure to ask for some photos with a hand written name tag or even ask for their cell phones and whatnot.

Alright that's about all I have, good luck in finding your pair of REAL SBs, say no to FAKES!