[l33tbro]

I think the distiction you may be missing is between fashion and style. Anyone can be fashionable by buying what's in season or mimicking a celeb. Being stylish is what's beautiful and admirable.

You don't even have to be a mod, rocker, or any of these subcultures. You can be an old bloke on a Segway rocking a Fubu shirt and cargo pants and completely transcend the streetscape.

My favourite stylish people integrate a sense of fun and playfulness to what they wear, but I think the most defining element of style is risk. Having the balls to say you're different.

[Retric]

> Having the balls to say you're different.

While still conforming.

An overweight guy walking around in a loincloth is not going to 'work' for ya even if it may have been in fashion at one point.

[emodendroket]

Well, many forms of art are more interesting precisely because they have to work within constraints. In this case, the constraints, things like "your clothing has to cover your buttocks and your chest," are not particularly limiting anyway.

[l33tbro]

Sounds pretty cool to me if he's owning it. All subjective either way.