Wakadaisho: Gleaming the cube
Kitazawa Building 2F, Kitazawa 2-30-11, Setagaya-ku +81 (0) 3 3465 0931
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A selection of the vintage skateboard clothing at Wakadaisho. Plus a black Polo shirt of recent vintage.
Wakadaisho’s wares exemplify the glory days of skateboarding before hip hop ran over it with a cultural truck.
The shop's inventory is largely a collection of late '80s skateboard brands -- from the sanitary Powell Peralta skull-and-sword-laden imagery to Santa Cruz’s screaming hand logo to the riskier edginess of Pushead’s stippled skating corpses for Zorlac. This shop is fraught with examples of a time when skateboarding was almost purely a punk rock pursuit, not urban swagger with oversized pantaloons and Dr. Dre beats. The few skateboards here are fish-shaped, not the sanitized, ovoid wooden pills of today.
Along with the vintage skate gear, Wakadaisho stocks a sampling of vintage and retro blue jeans, Vision Street Wear sneakers circa 1987, contemporary skate backpacks and tons of cell phone straps and keychains so integral to doing business in Japan.
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