Analyzing Jughead: Ripping the runway
Jughead has always been a popular character, but now he’s even influencing runway fashion! At trendhunter.com, they’ve uploaded pictures from the Dharma Taylor Autumn Winter 2010 collection, and suspicious pointed hats are seen throughout.
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Runway fashion is totally different than regular everyday fashion, however. If you’d like to look cool like Jughead, it’s possible! And the best thing is that this style can be translated across the gender board.
1. Black pants
History: The most common item of clothing in Jughead’s repertoire is The Black Pant. This tradition Archie Comics artists have with Jughead’s black pants seems inexplicable-my theory is that it was just easier to color his pants black instead of thinking up some color or kooky design. Artists are humans, too, trust me.
Where to Buy: You can buy black pants anywhere. I would suggest making sure the pants are jeans; even though it doesn’t state what material Jughead’s pants are made out of, it would seem most logical that due to his lazy lifestyle, he would just throw on a pair of jeans and be done with it. Also make sure those jeans are slim-fit jeans; Jughead’s pants are hardly ever baggy. If you’re really slight or really daring, go ahead and make a statement-buy the skinny jeans.
2. Crazy-cool shirt
History: One thing Jughead always has is some sort of crazy shirt, be it his signature “S” sweatshirt, a message shirt, or some shirt with a crazy design.
Where to Buy: Girls: Forever 21 is a great place for message tees and crazy shirts, as is Hot Topic. If you like buying online, I’d suggest fredflare.com, a kooky website full of pop-ironic shirts, tops, accessories and toys. Examples:
Forever 21
Hot Topic
fredflare.com
Boys: Forever 21 can also be a good place for you, as well. They’ve been developing their recently-added men’s section for a few years, and-at least on the website-they’re getting better at catering to the trendy male. Hot Topic is also a good place for guys looking to jazz up their wardrobe with zany shirts. You can try fredflare.com, but their men’s section isn’t as plush. Your best bet for online crazy shirt shopping is uneetee.com. Members to the site can submit their shirt designs, so any shirt you”d get would be a one-of-a-kind shirt. Talk about unique! Since the shirts at uneetee are artist-submitted, I wouldn’t want to show their designs without their permission, so you’ll have to click on the link if you want to see the shirts. But, I do have Forever 21, Hot Topic, and fredflare.com shirts to show you:
Forever 21
Hot Topic
fredflare.com
3. Cool shoes
History: Jughead has almost always worn flat sneakers. While no logos are visible, the best example of Jughead shoes (as seen above in the black pants picture) are the classic Converse. It doesn’t particularly matter if you choose high-tops or low ones since it’s not touched on in the comics, but my preference is for the high-tops, simply because they’re more iconic, and like the picture above, it seems as though he likes wearing them.
Where to Buy: Again, you can buy these pretty much anywhere, so wherever you usually buy shoes, go look in the sneaker section for some Converses. If they don’t have any, get any type of fun, flat, sporty-looking shoe. The zanier they look (pattern, color), the better.
Alternative: If high-tops can’t be found or just aren’t your thing, you can get some totally retro-looking ’80s-style sneakers. You know, the puffy-looking kind, like these:
You can either go to your local Nike store and get a very expensive pair, or you can easily find a just-as-stylish knock-off at your favorite shoe store. If you get these or the Converses, not only would you be stylish, but you’d also be hitting on that pop-ironic trend where everything old is new again (here’s a challenge-if you can find those old “Pump” sneakers-the ones with the basketball pump in the shoe tongue, it would be the best find ever as well as the best way to one-up the pop-irony going on).
Is Jughead your fashion icon? How does he inspire you?
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Great post! Thanks for your comment. I’m an Archie gal from waaaaay back.
I started collecting Archie Comics when I was about 11 or 12 years old. There’s nothing like a good Archie comic book, especially ones from the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s.