deftones was my first ever unsupervised concert when i was 13 in 2003. seeing young people at this show, ladies especially, melts my heart. thank you for doing this street style reporting, i think we’re in dire need of it!
I’m a 40-year-old OG Deftones fan going to see them in London this summer, already planning my outfit with my friends. Love being a girl and having cool looks for shows and love all these babes with their great outfits! (I have a beautiful pale yellow Deftones shirt which I’m planning to wear with a silk Ganni tiger print skirt which is the exact same shade, magically, and which makes a perfect look for an ageing rock girl IMO!!)
omg! i am so excited for you!! this deftones shirt sounds major, pale yellow?! a nice visual contrast w/ the deftones color scheme. may I ask how you found them in the uk in the '90s?xx
45 year old hardcore kid here. I love this. These kids’ perspective isn’t all that far removed from what I was thinking / imagining when I went to Lollapalooza 1994 or the first year of the Warped Tour as a little punk rock skate rat from a tiny town in the super rural Midwest.
omg hi! that's so cool, i wanna know more! where were you getting your clothes?! and was it intimidating to go to these shows as a someone from a small rural town? / exciting? (both i imagine!!)
It was super intimidating but I lived for it! The only image I had in my head of what “a punk” looked like was based on third-hand copies of Decline of Western Civilization and skateboard videos / mags. I lived in fear of being called a poser. As for where I got my clothes - direct order from Revelation Records, CCS, etc., mixed with Dickies and flannels from Wal-Mart & secondhand stores.
oh i love this!! direct order. cool!! someone else just told me they wore a dickies shirt to a deftones show in early 2000s, it was his first show. i didn't really know about dickies being a style thing back then?!
For sure! Dickies pants — particularly the 874 work pants — have been a staple of hardcore punk since the early 1980s. This was inherited from original UK ‘Spirit of ‘69’ skinheads (i.e., not racist, working class kids of all stripes who loved Jamaican music, etc) who were recodifying workwear as a proud assertion of identity. Dickies, Doc Martens, Ben Sherman — this is how all these brands (as well as Fred Perry) — ended up connected to hardcore and punk as all the skins ended up part of that scene as time went on. As a kid from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Minneapolis was actually our closest ‘city’. The Baldies — the original anti-racist skinhead crew, which eventually morphed into the SHARPS as well as Antifa — were from there and I’d occasionally see photos of them in the news from years past. I was obsessed with everything about them and that included Dickies 874s and any bomber jacket I could find at a military surplus store. https://www.tpt.org/the-baldies/
oh yes!! silly me! I was thinking about how when I was around skaters and not quite punks in the mid 2010s people would make fun of them and say as a joke "dont wear dickies if you don't work!" idk why but the punk connection was just not there for us LOL
I visited Las Vegas a month ago and stayed at the MGM. Friday night was the Chromakopia tour and Saturday night was Deftones, and both times I was fortunate to be getting drinks at a bar in the hotel right when the concerts ended. I go to a lot of music festivals and concerts, but literally getting to sit down and watch them all pass by and observe their outfits was so interesting. Both nights I was also parking in the parking garage and the line to park on the Chromakopia night was insanely long compared to Deftones, which definitely makes sense because those fans skew older and therefore more upwardly mobile and probably stayed in Vegas for the show.
I think the tour is largely over but if you can go to a Tyler the Creator concert in the future and make a substack post about it, his success with younger Gen Z like my sister (she is 19 and I am 26) is so fascinating. In 2022 I loved seeing CMIYGL outfits on TikTok, it was very much Harry Styles Love On Tour vibes if it was street style-ified and Chromakopia had a very specific color palette and style, moreso than CMIYGL in my opinion.
It's super cool to see how the rise of TikTok and OOTD culture has inspired much more interesting concert attire. My first concert was MGMT in 2013, and I'm pretty sure I wore Hollister jeans with a bandeau and Pacsun "tribal" print muscle tank. I'm glad teenagers have more swag and aura now.
that is so funny that you say that because the guy i was sitting next to at the deftones show was a big tyler fan!! i would love to go to one of his shows.
he's been so influential on style - on an episode of the podcast i talk about the overlapping / diverging influences of tyler and mac demarco on style in the 2010s.
and also funny about what style looked like in the recent past before tiktok!! this was also the time of my first big "style moments" at concerts, and i do feel like it was a bit of a style doldrums. then again, i wore the same vintage tie dye mickey mouse tank i wore to disney in my first post on American Style to a show at the Masquerade which I write about in this post, the night I got my first kiss, I think...
I can't wait to get to that episode! I started listening in February 2023 and I've been slowly making my way through all of the old ones. Do you think you'll go to a show on Yung Lean's tour later this year and do a report from there? I was thinking about it while listening to the Grisch episode. One of the most stressful style-related moments of my life was choosing what to wear to Bladee at Brooklyn Mirage last year lol
omg I grew up in the suburbs of atl and going to the OG masquerade was so special (my parents would drive me because i didn’t have a license yet lol)! I remember when they tore it down ;(
Actually so heart warming! Everyone looked so amazing ❤️ Jo-Elle ate it the fuck up! Hope she got her flowers all night. Alt teens are a gift to earth.
I remember being this age and putting together my fit for a show while fantasizing about falling in love with someone/getting into trouble at the concert xx
Interesting! I think this is their vibe!! I think if anything DTI takes cues from this style already existing then forms a kind of reciprocal relationship 🔁
idk why this one made me tear up!! its so sweet
I felt / feel the same way! I genuinely loved talking to all of these kids, they were so cool
deftones was my first ever unsupervised concert when i was 13 in 2003. seeing young people at this show, ladies especially, melts my heart. thank you for doing this street style reporting, i think we’re in dire need of it!
Omg!! So sweet. Thank you for reading ❤️❤️💋💋
I’m a 40-year-old OG Deftones fan going to see them in London this summer, already planning my outfit with my friends. Love being a girl and having cool looks for shows and love all these babes with their great outfits! (I have a beautiful pale yellow Deftones shirt which I’m planning to wear with a silk Ganni tiger print skirt which is the exact same shade, magically, and which makes a perfect look for an ageing rock girl IMO!!)
omg! i am so excited for you!! this deftones shirt sounds major, pale yellow?! a nice visual contrast w/ the deftones color scheme. may I ask how you found them in the uk in the '90s?xx
Kerrang! The only magazine that mattered!
45 year old hardcore kid here. I love this. These kids’ perspective isn’t all that far removed from what I was thinking / imagining when I went to Lollapalooza 1994 or the first year of the Warped Tour as a little punk rock skate rat from a tiny town in the super rural Midwest.
omg hi! that's so cool, i wanna know more! where were you getting your clothes?! and was it intimidating to go to these shows as a someone from a small rural town? / exciting? (both i imagine!!)
It was super intimidating but I lived for it! The only image I had in my head of what “a punk” looked like was based on third-hand copies of Decline of Western Civilization and skateboard videos / mags. I lived in fear of being called a poser. As for where I got my clothes - direct order from Revelation Records, CCS, etc., mixed with Dickies and flannels from Wal-Mart & secondhand stores.
oh i love this!! direct order. cool!! someone else just told me they wore a dickies shirt to a deftones show in early 2000s, it was his first show. i didn't really know about dickies being a style thing back then?!
For sure! Dickies pants — particularly the 874 work pants — have been a staple of hardcore punk since the early 1980s. This was inherited from original UK ‘Spirit of ‘69’ skinheads (i.e., not racist, working class kids of all stripes who loved Jamaican music, etc) who were recodifying workwear as a proud assertion of identity. Dickies, Doc Martens, Ben Sherman — this is how all these brands (as well as Fred Perry) — ended up connected to hardcore and punk as all the skins ended up part of that scene as time went on. As a kid from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Minneapolis was actually our closest ‘city’. The Baldies — the original anti-racist skinhead crew, which eventually morphed into the SHARPS as well as Antifa — were from there and I’d occasionally see photos of them in the news from years past. I was obsessed with everything about them and that included Dickies 874s and any bomber jacket I could find at a military surplus store. https://www.tpt.org/the-baldies/
oh yes!! silly me! I was thinking about how when I was around skaters and not quite punks in the mid 2010s people would make fun of them and say as a joke "dont wear dickies if you don't work!" idk why but the punk connection was just not there for us LOL
Minneapolis!! I would love to go there
I visited Las Vegas a month ago and stayed at the MGM. Friday night was the Chromakopia tour and Saturday night was Deftones, and both times I was fortunate to be getting drinks at a bar in the hotel right when the concerts ended. I go to a lot of music festivals and concerts, but literally getting to sit down and watch them all pass by and observe their outfits was so interesting. Both nights I was also parking in the parking garage and the line to park on the Chromakopia night was insanely long compared to Deftones, which definitely makes sense because those fans skew older and therefore more upwardly mobile and probably stayed in Vegas for the show.
I think the tour is largely over but if you can go to a Tyler the Creator concert in the future and make a substack post about it, his success with younger Gen Z like my sister (she is 19 and I am 26) is so fascinating. In 2022 I loved seeing CMIYGL outfits on TikTok, it was very much Harry Styles Love On Tour vibes if it was street style-ified and Chromakopia had a very specific color palette and style, moreso than CMIYGL in my opinion.
It's super cool to see how the rise of TikTok and OOTD culture has inspired much more interesting concert attire. My first concert was MGMT in 2013, and I'm pretty sure I wore Hollister jeans with a bandeau and Pacsun "tribal" print muscle tank. I'm glad teenagers have more swag and aura now.
omg i'm obsessed with this comment
that is so funny that you say that because the guy i was sitting next to at the deftones show was a big tyler fan!! i would love to go to one of his shows.
he's been so influential on style - on an episode of the podcast i talk about the overlapping / diverging influences of tyler and mac demarco on style in the 2010s.
and also funny about what style looked like in the recent past before tiktok!! this was also the time of my first big "style moments" at concerts, and i do feel like it was a bit of a style doldrums. then again, i wore the same vintage tie dye mickey mouse tank i wore to disney in my first post on American Style to a show at the Masquerade which I write about in this post, the night I got my first kiss, I think...
I can't wait to get to that episode! I started listening in February 2023 and I've been slowly making my way through all of the old ones. Do you think you'll go to a show on Yung Lean's tour later this year and do a report from there? I was thinking about it while listening to the Grisch episode. One of the most stressful style-related moments of my life was choosing what to wear to Bladee at Brooklyn Mirage last year lol
omg I grew up in the suburbs of atl and going to the OG masquerade was so special (my parents would drive me because i didn’t have a license yet lol)! I remember when they tore it down ;(
Omg! I loved that place so much...
why is the group of high schoolers towards the end making me want to cry when i'm only 5 years older than the oldest of them. i love it so much
Actually so heart warming! Everyone looked so amazing ❤️ Jo-Elle ate it the fuck up! Hope she got her flowers all night. Alt teens are a gift to earth.
I remember being this age and putting together my fit for a show while fantasizing about falling in love with someone/getting into trouble at the concert xx
Domi, Annalise and Ravyn’s outfits seem so dress to impress to me! I wonder if they learned about outfit construction from DTI?
Interesting! I think this is their vibe!! I think if anything DTI takes cues from this style already existing then forms a kind of reciprocal relationship 🔁
This is the best thing I've read all year.
Chris!!! Thank you.