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The story
A thread titled “I’m pushing 40 but I still dress streetwear” popped up on Newsoku VIP, sparking a wide-ranging chat about fashion for people in their 40s and beyond. The original poster claimed to stick to street-style staples like collarless T-shirts and varsity jackets, prompting pushback from other users, including comments like “A guy pushing 40 basically never goes out in a collarless shirt.” The discussion also turned to brand preferences, ranging from Uniqlo and select shops to the merits of luxury labels like Prada and Louis Vuitton, and even claims that LEE overalls are starting to trend — turning into a broader debate over where exactly age and fashion draw the line.
What people said
I'm pushing 50 now and I still dress streetwear.
You again
It's the "Cure Bozu" guy lol (a recurring 5ch nickname/in-joke)
Huh? I'm going for a Yosuke Kubozuka or Tomoya Nagase vibe, you know.
Even Akihiro Miwa (flamboyant veteran entertainer) would be stunned.
Summer's got fewer fashion options, so I wish it were winter already.
How old are you? Streetwear's great, right?
Huh? What's that supposed to mean?
I'm going stylish, not streetwear.
Fair enough.
By the way, what brands do you wear? Just curious for reference.
Embarrassing if I'm wrong, but that looked stylish, right?
Neighborhood is stylish.
? Prada? Saint Laurent?
Prada's cool, right?
Mostly Uniqlo.
Other than that, if I find something I like at a select shop, I'll grab it.
Which select shop though?
Right now the sharpest look's gotta be LEE overalls.
With regular people panicking that "slim's coming back now that oversized is swinging the other way!", rocking overalls to stand out from that crowd is apparently what's been trending since late August.
In most corners of streetwear culture, a T-shirt counts as underwear — you're supposed to layer something with a collar over it.
Going all-collarless is only for when you're deliberately going for a "beggar-ish" look.
That's basically what punk or gangsta style is about, right?
That's not right.
Plenty of people wear nothing but T-shirts.
Don't just make stuff up lol
(Kasuga)
United Arrows, Beauty & Youth, Green Label Relaxing, stuff like that.
Heheheheh lol
Muahahaha
Maybe just accessories.
At this point, anything that screams "Louis Vuitton" at a glance is just tacky.
You think? I want the one Hidetoshi Nakata used to carry.
If you want it, let's go buy it.
Don't get cocky.
I just like red.
My varsity jacket's red.
Got a problem with that?
You can find them lying around on Mercari (Japan's big resale app).
Huh? I live in Gifu though?
If you're in Gifu you can just go buy one.
(People from Gifu hang out in Nagoya as a matter of course, so they'd never say "there aren't city-style stores because it's the countryside.")
Grunge stuff, mostly.
Not that naming brands would mean anything to you.
Honestly, I got sick of "streetwear" — a look that only works on ugly people — back in middle school.
Supreme, Stussy, New Era, Nike, right?
That's basically Yamauchi from Kamaitachi (the comedy duo).
Tch, quit acting tough lol
And you're lame yourself lol
Grunge, lol
Ripped jeans lol, sounds like it reeks lol
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
“Streetwear” originally refers to a casual style rooted in skate and hip-hop culture, and even fine-grained etiquette debates — like whether to layer a collared piece over a T-shirt — aren’t unusual within that scene. The brand names that came up in the thread, such as Supreme, Stussy, and Neighborhood, all belong to that lineage, but it’s also common to mix them with mass-market or select-shop brands like Uniqlo and United Arrows — the two aren’t necessarily at odds. The claim that “LEE overalls are trending right now” is worth taking with a grain of salt, since it’s just one poster’s personal impression with no supporting data cited. As for the link between age and fashion, Japan still holds fairly strongly to the idea of “dressing age-appropriately,” while the people actually living the style pushed back, insisting they have no intention of changing how they dress just because of their age — and that gap in attitude was the recurring fault line running through the whole thread.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Newsoku VIP) thread “I’m pushing 40 but I still dress streetwear.”
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