Drug Dealer Fashion

imme

Certain fashion brands now seem to be de rigueur for younger drug dealers and their hangers on.

Canada Goose and Moncler seem to be a uniform for them these days.

Even on the warmest days you can see young goosedown jacket clad guys going about their business in €600 jackets.

Was there ever an easier way to recognise them before now.

Is there any other item that is a style signifier for drug scum.

L1011

Nike Airmax 97s, grey North Face tracksuits, actually nearly anything North Face at all now.

Risingshadoo

I don't know...guns maybe?

Lurching

North Face.
Used to like that brand.

The Bishop Basher

Man bags..

I don’t get it.

They look like knobs.

Saw one yesterday and it was confirmed.

GinSoaked

North Face still like that brand but you need to understand that they have a fashion range as well as a range for genuine outdoors users.

ChikiChiki

What's the story with the Canada Goose trend. Seriously popular around Dublin this winter. Even the auld ones were kitted out in them.

Bobblehats

Big long streaks of lads, in a long coat with the fake fur hood with the hands buried in their pockets. They don’t stand out nor look like archetypal drug dealer at all

magic_murph

ChikiChiki wrote: »

What's the story with the Canada Goose trend. Seriously popular around Dublin this winter. Even the auld ones were kitted out in them.

Prob all knock offs selling for 60quid

Cupatae

imme wrote: »

Certain fashion brands now seem to be de rigueur for younger drug dealers and their hangers on.

Canada Goose and Moncler seem to be a uniform for them these days.

Even on the warmest days you can see young goosedown jacket clad guys going about their business in €600 jackets.

Was there ever an easier way to recognise them before now.

Is there any other item that is a style signifier for drug scum.

So goose jacket = drug dealer scum

How anyone pays 600 for them absolute muck jackets is beyond me .

Bobblehats

Cupatae wrote: »

So goose jacket = drug dealer scum

Goose down = pat down

L1011

The Bishop Basher wrote: »

Man bags..

I don’t get it.

They look like knobs.

Saw one yesterday and it was confirmed.

Bum bags hung around the neck is one I've seen quite a bit.

r93kaey5p2izun

Moncler jackets, EA7 or Hugo Boss shorts, t-shirts and tracksuits. Cross body man bag essential and is the most reliable indicator now I think.

Thelonious Monk

Every kid in my area wears a north face jacket and grey tracksuit bottoms and weird looking runners. I don't think it's drug dealer fashion per se, just the way youngfellas dress nowadays.

Hangdogroad

That hideous shorts/white socks combo that seems to be inspired by Mexican American gangbangers.

Potential-Monke

Doesn't matter what kind of clothes they're wearing, you pick them out immediately by the tracksuit tucked into the socks. Didn't realise they had upgraded from Addidas and Nike tbh, I don't look at them long enough to know what brand it is. Just throw my internal disdain at them and move on.

double jobbing

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Doesn't matter what kind of clothes they're wearing, you pick them out immediately by the tracksuit tucked into the socks. Didn't realise they had upgraded from Addidas and Nike tbh, I don't look at them long enough to know what brand it is. Just throw my internal disdain at them and move on.

I've wondered lately whether Adidas and Nike are now seen as Dad brands for these lads. Everyone under 20 seems to wear Under Armour, North Face etc. Yet it seems to die out once they pass 21 or thereabouts and they move away from the skinny jeans/ trackies and the teenager brands.

Canada Goose is comical looking stuff. I've seen lads wearing them in the height of the recent sunshine, no wonder they're all so skinny the weight must be sweating off them :pac:

That's another one that's changed lately. Young lads are skinny again. 5 years ago when ****e like Geordie Shore was at its height there wasn't a teenager around who wasn't a weightlifting gym junkie.

double jobbing

re the drug dealer image, I don't think a 600 quid jacket necessarily means they are one (not to mention plenty of drug dealers haven't a pot to piss in). I'm 35, when I was in my late teens early 20's most young lads didn't spend much on going out clothes. A decent button up from Penneys or T Shirt from Jack Jones or Jean Scene or whoever was all most people were in to. I didn't know anyone who went to BT, it would have had the image as a D4 joint.

Difference is back then we were often out three, four nights a week. There simply wasn't the money left for expensive clothes.

Things are different now, I don't think most young lads go on the sauce more than once a week, if even that. There aren't the amount of nightclubs to head to as there were, certainly not on a Thursday or a Sunday night. Young lads have more of their money available for clothes than we did. If you're on 400 quid a week minimum wage or as an apprentice, living at home no rent, only out once a week, a 600 quid jacket isn't all that much. Also rave culture not being what it was- 15 years ago I wouldn't fancy destroying an 80 quid Ralph Lauren shirt with yoked up sweat for 12 hours every weekend, a 20 euro shirt was much more pertinent.


The increased popularity of the League of Ireland in the last 3- 4 years has also influenced it a bit. Casual culture labels, stuff like Stone Island and Lacoste have got very popular in the last few years.

L1011

double jobbing wrote: »

The increased popularity of the League of Ireland in the last 3- 4 years has also influenced it a bit. Casual culture labels, stuff like Stone Island and Lacoste have got very popular in the last few years.

Bloody kids, wouldn't know what hit them if they had to do a cold night in Buckley Park *grumbles in old duffer*

jimgoose

Bobblehats wrote: »

Goose down = pat down

Watch it!! :mad:

Ultrflat

Lurching wrote: »

North Face.
Used to like that brand.

I moved to Craft just as good if not a little better.

jonnny68

add in Dsqured2, Kenzo, McQueen, Valentino, Gucci to that list too, previously high end labels but absolutely ruined now, avoid.

castletownman

You can spot the undesirables from a mile off when the fella is wearing those grey cotton tracksuit bottoms and designer runners (usually white), and their toddler is kitted out in the exact same gear. Like mini me.

Eduard Khil

Parka Jacket with shorts and Gucci runners

the purple tin

The lads who are heavily dressed in hot weather must be using their own supply. Heroin users are always feeling the cold.

MY BAD

double jobbing wrote: »

The increased popularity of the League of Ireland in the last 3- 4 years has also influenced it a bit. Casual culture labels, stuff like Stone Island and Lacoste have got very popular in the last few years.

When I was a teen in the late nineties Stone Island and CP company were popular on the terraces in certain circles. It's more popular now though. I think expensive brands have always been popular among the working class

Richard Hillman

Shorts, even if its cold and of course the Canada Goose jackets.

I used to work in a high end store. You could always spot the drug dealers. Massive jacket and always paying in cash.

imme

L1011 wrote: »

Nike Airmax 97s, grey North Face tracksuits, actually nearly anything North Face at all now.

Is North Face not more scummy fashion chic than drug dealer style.

imme

ChikiChiki wrote: »

What's the story with the Canada Goose trend. Seriously popular around Dublin this winter. Even the auld ones were kitted out in them.

Yes it has been taken over by drug dealer types and hangers on.
It is similar in parts of the UK.

I suppose it is a status symbol, wearing something identifiable that cost €600 +++.

What do the yummy mummies of Foxrock or the skiing dads of Leixlip do now with their Canada goose jackets.

imme

magic_murph wrote: »

Prob all knock offs selling for 60quid

They are doing a booming trade in a Southside department store.

If there so many fakes would the Canada goose people not want to do something about that devaluing their product.

jodaw

imme wrote: »

They are doing a booming trade in a Southside department store.

If there so many fakes would the Canada goose people not want to do something about that devaluing their product.

Not really a whole lot the brand can do about fakes. The more popular a brand becomes with a segment that generally does not have the finances to purchase that brand, a gap opens in the market.

Lets be honest, they are more interested in a badge than the benefits of duck down. Sure most of them have argos microfibre duvets.

If the counterfeiters can sell a piece of crap with a fake badge on it,manufactured for €10 for €60, then drug dealers are in the wrong business

Rodin

It's not cold enough in Ireland for Canada Goose even in winter

everlast75

Bobblehats wrote: »

Goose down = pat down

They were those jackets because every time they see a cop, they duck.....

r93kaey5p2izun

In my experience, when it comes to the teenage lads, it's now a thing to be able to produce the BT receipt. That's considered essential. Majority of these lads are indeed selling.

Phoenix Tangy Teaspoonful

Phoenix Tangy Teaspoonful wrote: »

In my experience, when it comes to the teenage lads, it's now a thing to be able to produce the BT receipt. That's considered essential. Majority of these lads are indeed selling.

The mind boggles imagine going around with a BT receipt, they genuinely must not have even one brain cell.

Also would an intelligent dealer not have enough sense to not dress in a way that draws attention to themselves.

Tacitus Kilgore

mariaalice wrote: »

The mind boggles imagine going around with a BT receipt, they genuinely must not have even one brain cell.

Also would an intelligent dealer not have enough sense to not dress in a way that draws attention to themselves.

You would think that, but most of these geniuses want to be known as dealers by their family, peers and the gardaí, they just don't want to get caught.

Doesn't make sense but neither does wearing a wooly moncler hat, canada goose jacket, pair of hugo boss shorts & gucci sliders when it's 25 degrees out, and the same uniform for when it's 0 degrees out.

D3V!L

mariaalice wrote: »

The mind boggles imagine going around with a BT receipt, they genuinely must not have even one brain cell.

Also would an intelligent dealer not have enough sense to not dress in a way that draws attention to themselves.

No, because they're not intelligent. They're sheep that follow all their peers in the way they dress making it look like an identifying uniform.

jonnny68

D3V!L wrote: »

No, because they're not intelligent. They're sheep that follow all their peers in the way they dress making it look like an identifying uniform.

pretty much spot on, no sense of individual style whatsoever.

s7ryf3925pivug

I need a new jacket apparently.

Tacitus Kilgore

They look like little birds with their tiny sparrow legs sticking out of the bottom of what look like ruffled up binbags.

Those gucci hats with the snake are the worst looking thing i've ever seen too :pac:

This is probably an urban myth, but apparently one of the big American urban fashion brands use to ignore a certain amount of shoplifting by young black teens, knowing it was the quickest way to make something popular or acquire a bit of a cult following.

BuboBubo

Used to buy North Face for work wear myself, comfy stuff. Looked at the website recently to buy more, now most of the stuff is garish looking.

Snickers all the way for me, hope the dealers don't get into that stuff

s7ryf3925pivug

BuboBubo wrote: »

Used to buy North Face for work wear myself, comfy stuff. Looked at the website recently to buy more, now most of the stuff is garish looking.

Snickers all the way for me, hope the dealers don't get into that stuff

Yeah I thought the same when I looked a couple of months ago.
I prefer to wear roughly the same clothes all the time. I hate having to find new ones when brands discontinue what I usually get.
The current vogue for tight trousers is particularly annoying.

bullpost

double jobbing wrote: »

I've wondered lately whether Adidas and Nike are now seen as Dad brands for these lads. Everyone under 20 seems to wear Under Armour, North Face etc. Yet it seems to die out once they pass 21 or thereabouts and they move away from the skinny jeans/ trackies and the teenager brands.

Canada Goose is comical looking stuff. I've seen lads wearing them in the height of the recent sunshine, no wonder they're all so skinny the weight must be sweating off them :pac:

That's another one that's changed lately. Young lads are skinny again. 5 years ago when ****e like Geordie Shore was at its height there wasn't a teenager around who wasn't a weightlifting gym junkie.

I think the middle-class teens are still gym bunnies - probably due to the rugger influence.

1800_Ladladlad

An awful lot of the grey goose and stone Island gear you see is fake. They do be in the family pub in town selling all sorts. Those lads who are top-heavy wearing bet on Kenzo, armani, north face tops, with bet on skinny jeans, no socks and fluorescent runners are priceless. The lads out in clubs (the local) are gas. The height of fashion and the spitting image of one another.

I use to wear alot of skate and outdoor brands, but now they're everywhere in mass quantities and variations, and the quality is absolutely p*ss poor. Vans for example. I remember buying a basic entry level pair in the early 00's for roughly €40, now that same pair is €85 in schuh.:rolleyes:

s7ryf3925pivug

bullpost wrote: »

I think the middle-class teens are still gym bunnies - probably due to the rugger influence.

Nah it's not just rugby.

Getting fit is a good thing per se, but I suspect it comes from feelings of inadequacy sometimes.

Availability is a factor. Only the most basic gym equipment was available to most people my age when I was a teenager before college. The utility of deadlifts and creatine and stuff like that was not common knowledge either.

fatbhoy

Just looking at some of the Moncler stuff now online: some really lovely stuff, especially the sweatshirts.

Patrick2010

Passed over the Luas tracks in Rialto on Friday and saw 5 lads going the other way, 4 wearing North face jackets and one wearing a "man bag" that in my time as a teenager would have been called a handbag, when did this fashion start??

freshpopcorn

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Doesn't matter what kind of clothes they're wearing, you pick them out immediately by the tracksuit tucked into the socks. Didn't realise they had upgraded from Addidas and Nike tbh, I don't look at them long enough to know what brand it is. Just throw my internal disdain at them and move on.

I thought that wasn't as popular now.
They generally wear no socks now with trackies and white socks with sliders and shorts and a big jacket!

BattleCorp

Thanks for the tips lads. I now know what not to wear when I'm selling recreational pharmaceuticals.

BalcombeSt4

imme wrote: »

Certain fashion brands now seem to be de rigueur for younger drug dealers and their hangers on.

Canada Goose and Moncler seem to be a uniform for them these days.

Even on the warmest days you can see young goosedown jacket clad guys going about their business in €600 jackets.

Was there ever an easier way to recognise them before now.

Is there any other item that is a style signifier for drug scum.

How do you know this? Do people you buy your drugs of wear these funny clothes?
And how do you know there not method actors, preparing to play unstylish drug dealer?
De Niro became a taxi driver to prepare for Taxi Driver.
Some of the Trainspoting lads hanged around with ex-Heroin addicts & Ewan McGregor wanted to inject Heroin into his arm, so just smoked it instead (I think).
Snoop Pearson who was a hitwoman on The Wire, went & took method acting to the next level and eh, killed someone.