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Generally Hip Hop clothing, retail or wholesale, is broken into two groups, classic and modern styles.  The classic styles are those that were popularized in the 1970s to late 1980s.  Modern styles come from the very late eighties, nineties and after 2000.

Classic Hip Hop clothing includes large glasses and sunglasses, multi-finger rings, multiple gold necklaces, and various brand tennis shoes with oversized laces.  Hairstyles at this time took on a strong African American influence.  These styles included tight jheri curls and dreadlocks as well as closer cut and shaped styles.  Red-black-and-green was a common color pallet, sizing towards being baggy and overlarge, which continued into more modern Hip Hop styles.  This time period was one of establishing the Hip Hop movement and modern Hip Hop clothing and culture owes its success to these roots.

The more modern style Hip Hop was much affected by musical artists and actors who made popular the wearing of brilliant colors, often neon, and wearing usual clothing items, baseball hats and even condoms, in unusual ways.  Some went as far as to wear their clothing backwards.  As the year 2000 dawned, and highly influenced by the remake of Scarface Hip Hop clothing styles took on an influence from street thugs and prison inmates.  These styles included over sized clothing, large pocketed pants without a belt and military accents in shoes and jackets.  Other marks of this change of trend were flannel over shirts, hoodies and gold teeth, or at least gold fixtures.

Currently many places exist where Hip Hop clothing can be acquired.  Some of the simplest pieces may come from the corner thrift shop or flea market, but as the Hip Hop style has progressed in complexity these pieces have been picked up by many big markets, charging a big dollar and opening a huge marketplace for wholesale Hip Hop clothing options.  In order to push back against this trend online websites such as urbanhotlist.com have sprung up, offering discounted brands and a places to fill many needs at once.

Many advantages and disadvantages exist when it comes to working with an online sales site, like urbanhotlist.com.  Very often there is access to a much broader base of merchandise.  The ability for bulk ordering allows the prices of wholesale Hip Hop clothing to be kept very reasonable even after adding the extra charges for shipping and handling.

For those above-mentioned reasons websites like urbanhotlist.com have become rather popular and continue to grow with each month.  This is particularly of concern when the merchandise in question is something that requires sizing, such as the clothing lines that have been spoken about here.  Fortunately many wholesale Hip Hop styles aren’t fitted, preferring an oversized fit, which addresses many of the sizing concerns, but make sure that any place you are purchasing such items has a returns policy if something arrives damaged or in the wrong size.

No matter whether you prefer the early Hip Hop clothing or more modern choices there are many options for getting the wholesale clothing pieces you want.  One thing, however, is for sure.  Hip Hop is here to stay.

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Billabong set its roots in Queensland. It was founded in 1973, by Rena and Gordon Merchant.  The company started out as a manufacturer of board shorts and slowly expanded its operations.

In 1981, the company decided to become an aggressive player in the surf apparel market by branching out to an international crowd.  At first, it expanded its business to include New Zealand and the United States, then to South Africa, Japan and finally to Europe.  Once the ball was set in motion it was only a matter of time before it became a global effort.As the brand gained exposure and popularity the company decided to branch into other sports related apparel markets.They started experimenting with different lines of sports packages such as snowboarding and skateboarding.

In 1991, once they were satisfied with the quality of their new products, the company began to manufacture and distribute to the snowboarding and skateboarding crowd on a much larger scale.  As they expanded into these other areas, they were able to discover much success.

In 2000, Billabong international was listed as a publicly traded company on the Australian Stock Exchange.  Once enough capital was generated, the company quickly decided to bolster its position in other key sports related industries by purchasing such name brands as Von Zipper, Kustom Palmers Surf, Element and Nixon.  Each of these brands helped them gain position in other related sporting good categories.

In 2005, the company decided to give itself a bigger retail foothold by opening a number of Beachworks locations around the globe.  These effective retail locations began successfully selling a number of the company’s top products.

In 2007, Billabong in a long overdue move, decided to acquire Xcel, a premium wet-suit brand based in the United States.  With this acquisition, it positioned the company to be one of the strongest surf related brands in the world.

Popular Culture

Many of today’s top surfing stars endorse the Billabong brand name.  These endorsements have led to an increase of brand awareness and popularity of their popular surf related apparel line.  Many teenage skaters, snowboarders and surfers today sport the billabong brand apparel because of this.  It has become a mainstay in teenage popular culture.

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