Jed Walters, a nobody from North Dakota, allegedly caught one of the first proper, popped kickflips in World Industries’ “Love Child.” Skinny white kids mostly stopped wearing 42” weird-colored jeans.
Luckily, we as a group progressed and moved on from that. Tricks weren’t popped and caught – they bounced around and hopefully landed with the griptape facing up. “Style” as a concept didn’t really exist for most kids on the street (your Gonzes and Rick Howards and Hensleys notwithstanding, obviously). There was a time in the early ’90s when skateboarders dressed like total assholes. Let me drop a little bit of history on you: I know irony is all the rage these days (by “these days,” of course, I mean “forever, if you’re in the teens-to-mid-20s age range”), but this is going a step too far. They’re terrible if you want to look like a human being who can see their reflection in the mirror. They’re great if you want to look like a Midwestern Christian fundamentalist, a raver who can’t afford more zippers and straps, or someone who wears truly terrifying skate shoes. We’ve taken this too far.įor you young kids who were born after I’d had my first beer, here’s some background: JNCOs were one of the darkest moments of the ’90s (Creed and Limp Bizkit included). Somewhere, some kid is filming tricks for his new clip, “White Tube Socks and Old Birkenstocks.”
Maybe they just don’t know.) Fashionistas are dressing like Danny Tanner and Jerry Seinfeld under the guise of #normcore, and skaters are rushing to follow. Kids who were born in the post- original-Plan B era are pining for a time when decks were big, wheels were small, and carrying a skateboard around would get you beat up, not laid. Everybody knows there’s a ’90s revival going on in skateboarding.
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