Their influence on your attire?

[MC Moot]

I just got my Tee from the Rational Animal event, it’s suave, great graphic, good quality…I will be the dopest kid on the block…I was thinking that I came about buying the shirt cause of Horowitz modelling it…then I was thinking about the American Indian Movement shirt I snagged after I saw MCA sporting one in a pict,although familiar with AIM and supportive of the cause, I can’t deny the connection….Also, when they were in Italy on the paegant they were sporting gentlemans day suits,with the hat and feather…just like the guy on the Moretti bottle….I want a suit just like that…..you bought any duds directly or not so directly influenced by them?

[Pootytang]

My O-scope t

[buddmonkey]

In High school I went and bought shirts that were just a size too small after watching the "So Watch Want Video"...... I think there was a time I raided my Dads closet for the old Disco Look, to mimic "Hey Ladies".... Niether style stuck with me for verry long....

[Loppfessor]

At some point I owned a Body Movin shirt....umm that's all. My style is my own

[MC Moot]

My O-scope t

I was so tempted by that lime green mankini;)

[MC Moot]

In High school I went and bought shirts that were just a size too small after watching the "So Watch Want Video"....

Yep,I bought a Knicks shirt cause of the one D wears in the vid,old logo...and I sported a big ass wool toque with a pom,pom on the top ala MCA...:D

[b i o n i c]

my red hooded sweatshirt, though adam sandler mightve gotten that first



im not sure but i heard somewhere that the beastie boys started wearing non-fashiony clothes (the color coordinated jumpsuits, etc) for shows because they didnt want kids copying them and spending tons of money to look like them... wonder if theres any truth to that

[buddmonkey]

Oh and I've got a "beard like a billy goat"....

[pm0ney]

They definitely influenced my style a bit. Mike D. and Adrock anyway. MCA wears too many earth tones for my tastes.

[facedownfall]

Iwas thinking that I came about buying the shirt cause of Horowitz modelling it…

Not trying to be rude but it's Horovitz. ;)

Since I was 15 my whole wardrobe has been inspired by them. I'm 29 now so I've changed styles to be more fatherly like but I can rock it old school sometimes.

Christmas '92 I got the same belt as Mike D had in the So What'cha Want video. I also had a blue knit cap like he wore in the video.

Oh that year I was also envious of the hat Adrock always wore..it's red/burgundy or something but I got one similar to the one he wore for "Live at PJ's" when they were on Dave Letterman.

About the same time, I also bought some Adidas Campus black shoes when they were sold in stores during the mid-90's. In the past few years though, I've ordered them from a website..I've since switched to Vans but I use my last pair to cut grass in.

I remember in 1994, I copped the whole Adrock look from their David Letterman appearance, I was rocking red Pumas, the Ill Communication white and red ringer, and some khaki work pants, with the backwards hat. When I wasn't rocking the Pumas, I had my Adidas on...I became known around my high school as Beastie Dave...some still call me that.

I hit a dork phase when Hello Nasty was out as moving out my soon to be wife cleaned out my closet of band t-shirts and posters. So I was rockin' American Eagle clothing for a few years.

One staple of mine since the mid 90's has been wearing a web belt..I'd but them at the Navy Exchange before I joined the navy myself..they don't make them that long, so even though I hate Hurley I bought one of their web belts and it's my favorite, the black is fading out on it, but yeah I wear it Beastie Style with it hanging down....I have a Bullhead one but it's still new looking.

Around 2003 when the Beastie Boys started playing a few shows and Horovitz was rocking that zippered BAPE hoodie..I wanted one..my wife searched all the over internet but the price tag was way too much..she bought me a similar one by this skateboard company called AMERIKAN that looks Beastie-ish.

What else...I printed out that the ILL logo from the Mike D shirt that someone had posted on here and made two shirts...the grey one didn't quite show up with the blue and white, the white one I wear as an undershirt for work sometimes...I was going to wear it to the San Diego show in 2004, but didn't.

I remember wanting to get those Adidas tracksuits they had been sporting during the Pageant, Adrock's chico's bail bond shirts that he was sporting in magazines, and the The Fever shirt. My wife got me the yellow Built By Wendy shirt (Chico's Bail Bonds), a similar Puma track jacket, and The Fever shirt...

My wife is awesome!!! Started out slow but she accepts the Beastie Boy in me I guess. :cool:


This is from 1997, check out all the Beastie Boys posters I used to have:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/daveblev77/detail?.dir=8ff5&.dnm=0d7f.jpg

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/daveblev77/detail?.dir=8ff5&.dnm=ea65.jpg&.src=ph

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/daveblev77/detail?.dir=8ff5&.dnm=0fef.jpg

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/daveblev77/detail?.dir=8ff5&.dnm=cc73.jpg

[cj hood]

what are you talkin about......they wore the exact same suit in vegas that i wore at a job interview last summer......they bitin me!

[bigblu89]

Other than a few actual BBoys shirts that I've had through the years, they haven't had much influence.

Once I stopped fitting in XL sized shirts, my wearing of band/concerts T's ended.

[b-grrrlie]

I had a total drag king period when Yauch dressed as an old man. I had the trousers, shirt, even the wifebeater and big old fashioned boxers... :D

[MC Moot]

Not trying to be rude but it's Horovitz. ;)

Since I was 15 my whole wardrobe has been inspired by them. I'm 29 now so I've changed styles to be more fatherly like but I can rock it old school sometimes.



Indeed! Typo! Yeah I find they have had significant impact on my style regardless of whether or not I recognize it....remember when they did Letterman with the matching parka's (Ill Comm)...well,I would have never considered actually wearing a parka but that sealed it...timberlands,no,parka yes!

"I'm A Step Up To The Mic In My Goose Down"

The only actual bboy shirts I've snagged have all been at tour stops...but the mechanical parrot shirt I ordered last year is the best!

[kleptomaniac]

my shirt that looks eggzactly like the one yauch wears in the so what'cha want
video was entirely a coincidence :eek:

that worked out for me well

[facedownfall]

Indeed! Typo! Yeah I find they have had significant impact on my style regardless of whether or not I recognize it....remember when they did Letterman with the matching parka's (Ill Comm)...well,I would have never considered actually wearing a parka but that sealed it...timberlands,no,parka yes!

"I'm A Step Up To The Mic In My Goose Down"

The only actual bboy shirts I've snagged have all been at tour stops...but the mechanical parrot shirt I ordered last year is the best!

Letterman with parkas??? when was that..that wa this year right? I remember the SNL show where Yauch had on a goose down coat.

Once I saw Carharrt stuff in a redneck store while shopping for my brother-in-law so I was not rocking that.

I love the parrot shirt, I get lots of strange looks of people trying to figure it out....my all time fave is "it's not the heat, it's the humidty"..I love those blank stares I get when people read it.

[b i o n i c]

im not sure but i heard somewhere that the beastie boys started wearing non-fashiony clothes (the color coordinated jumpsuits, etc) for shows because they didnt want kids copying them and spending tons of money to look like them... wonder if theres any truth to that


answer me dammit

[dave790]

The other day I took out of my wardrobe, forno apparent reason, a green jumper, black jeans and a white t-shirt. With my old school white Adidas shoes I walked out the door, before realising I was wearing similar attire to Adrocks in the 3 MC's video.

All these bits have been brought over time, so it's not like I've gone out and tried to copy that exact style. It's quite common anyway...all I know is that I thought he looked very cool in that video when I was younger, and what do you know a few years later I'm dressing exactly the same.

Now i think about it, I have far more stripy jumpers than i did before that recent Letterman performance...yikes!

[Kid Presentable]

answer me dammit
Yeah, I've heard the theory before. I can agree, but I guess we'll never know.

[ggirlballa]

i started wearing adidas cuz of them & run dmc

i would go to school & my friends would say "missy elliot look?" or "hey lady sov!" and i'm all "no beastie boys damn it!":p :cool:

they say i dress like missy elliot or lady sovereign at times but whateva

i got 2 beastie boys shirts i'm wearing one right now actually.

but mostly i wear what i want

[pshabi]

Pretty much everything I've done for the last 12 years has been influenced by the Beastie Boys.

However, the avatar outfit isn't everday attire, I must admit.

[Justin]

Just the shoes.

[hitmonlee]

i remember the HOTTEST guy in school, he transferred from canada, well he had an aloha mr hand tshirt
so, so hot
and the second hottest guy in school had a some old bullshit tshirt
he got in trouble and had to turn it inside out, as we weren't allowed to wear clothes with swear words on them

anyway, since then, i've owned two aloha mr hand tshirts
the first one i wore to death, and adding extra glitter (i was a teenager obsessed with glitter) didnt help
the second one is getting holes in it, i think i have moths :(

[FunkyHiFi]

In a poster I own for the Check Your Head album, Ad-Rock is wearing some large sunglasses I always liked. A year after I bought that poster I got my first set of contacts in 1999. And never having owned a pair of sunglasses, after paying for my lenses I immediately walked over to a Sunglass Hut & looked for something similar and found some. Not my favorite brand but there they were, a pair of big wraparound Oakley Frogskins (http://www.x-wear.com/cot/product.asp?s%5Fid=0&dept%5Fid=3458&pf%5Fid=PAEKOILCPLFKOHNC) (mine are all black; I still use them!).

[pesto pizza]

at the moment i'm wearing a green bape hoody,stussy army belt and black adidas campus so i'm totally copying mike d.normally i copy adrock and only my sister and brother know what i do i'm 33 and they accept it even i know it's a little sad.but everyone else copies idoits like 50 cent and eminem.

[MC Moot]

Letterman with parkas??? when was that..that wa this year right? I remember the SNL show where Yauch had on a goose down coat. .

Nope it was after the release of Ill Comm...I remember Letterman intoduced them by saying to the effect of "frankly these guys scare the hell out me"

[the9thbeastie]

Nope it was after the release of Ill Comm...I remember Letterman intoduced them by saying to the effect of "frankly these guys scare the hell out me"

It was this show: http://www.beastiemania.com/gigog/show.php?g=19941210

[MC Moot]

It was this show: http://www.beastiemania.com/gigog/show.php?g=19941210

uhhh nope,that was a SNL appearance....they don't have it in the gigography,matching parkas with faux fur hoods and all...(y)

[the9thbeastie]

uhhh nope,that was a SNL appearance....they don't have it in the gigography,matching parkas with faux fur hoods and all...(y)


I am not sure what performance you're recalling. I think between YouTube and those of us that have these old TV appearance clips on VHS or DVD-R...there aren't any appearances on Letterman or SNL that slipped past us in 1994-95.

The SNL appearance had featured them wearing winter coats (Mike D has a North Face down jacket). The 1994 letterman appearance http://www.beastiemania.com/gigog/show.php?g=19940804 featured them wearing their normal street clothes.

[Laver1969]

uhhh nope,that was a SNL appearance....they don't have it in the gigography,matching parkas with faux fur hoods and all...(y)

Are you possibly confusing an SNL appearance with the Alive video?

[ggirlballa]

Are you possibly confusing an SNL appearance with the Alive video?

i think so, they look like telletubbies (sp?) in that video

dope vid:cool:

[kleptomaniac]

dope vid:cool:

like your avatar! ;)

[ggirlballa]

like your avatar! ;)

oh shit i for a while i forgot that my avatar is from that video, well now u reminded me(y) :D

[M.C. Guevera]

I used to wear those big expensive name brand clothing from Sean John and Rocawear, but ever since I've gotten into the Beastie Boys (and to a lesser extent, Quarashi), I've worn regular T-shirts, regular jeans, stuff that they would wear. It's certainly given me more money to spend on other stuff!

I also got black Adias sneakers because of them. But the most obvious Beastie influence is that I shaved my head and cut a line in the middle like Adrock in the "Sure Shot" music video. I also had facial hair under my chin for a while. My aunt says that I looked just like him, but I didn't see it.

[b-grrrlie]

While I was studying (5-7 years ago) I got a schoolmate of mine to buy the Sounds of Science box cause he got curious about Beastie Boys cause of me wearing their T-shirts all the time... :D

[MC Moot]

Oh and I've got a "beard like a billy goat"....

"I get my haircut correct like Anthony Mason..."(y)

[MC Moot]

I am not sure what performance you're recalling....there aren't any appearances on Letterman or SNL that slipped past us in 1994-95..

Well it was a long time ago,but I am sure of it.....matching winter parkas,hurricane as well,introduced by Letterman saying "Frankly these guys scare the hell out of me...."....hard to contest if Beastiemania has no match,though,amazing site.....if it's a figment of my imagination it's delicious not delusional!
:D

[Jitters]

I only wear Adidas but I've always liked them but it was slightly inspired by them and Run-DMC.

Clothes wise I have a blue jacket like their green and yellow ones but I just liked they way it looked. The only thing of theirs that I have straight up ripped of is Mike's Bathing Ape shark hoodie, I just really liked it and wanted one because of how cool it looked.

[acamus]

Thing is if you grew up around the same time as CYH and IC and you were white, you were probably wearing similar things like skate shoes, jeans, t-shirts and beanies. To dress like them from other eras would be more copping THEIR style, but then what's wrong with that? They sample sounds, lyrics, artwork. It's okay to sample clothing styles too.