It looks like the old lady there at the church. Johnson: The sleeve lengths on all these joints are just horrific.īeavers: I hate that color, taupe. The jackets at the time went to the end of your hand, and we all have long arms-our hands go to our knees, so our jackets go down there. He's already tall and slender, and it was a lot of material. Wade: I know his suit jacket was long as s-t. They all had the Steve Harvey back-in-the-day thing going on.īarnett: I honestly am going to go ahead and say Chris Bosh might have had the best suit on. His was one of the worst, looking back on it.īeavers: Melo's outfit looks like something- whew -I don't know. Gaines: Melo had the super-extra baggy! I think his fashion game has improved a lot since then.
What were you going for? What was the vibe?" Wherever, I don't think they've done much since.īarnett: Carmelo just made his own kind of suit. With Melo's suit, it's, " Wait a minute, Melo. Over time, everyone's cracking jokes, that I look like a deacon or-there's certain things they say. Melo was probably the worst one out of everyone. We designed that signature look, and he wore it very well, and it was pretty well-received. Jenks: It was our signature style that we put him in that year. You wouldn't catch me dead in a suit that size. I doubt if they're still in business now if they're still making suits like that. I got from a close family friend out in Georgia. Hayes: Think about the Michael Jordan-Allen Iverson era that started the baggy clothes look. The NBA player until now has never been a forward guy. It may have looked good at the time, because that's what they knew. It was a learning process for everybody, there was a curve. So you're dressing in whatever the regional guy thinks is hot.īeavers: Where they came from, nobody wore tight clothes, everything was baggy. Up until then, it's clear they wanted to emulate the players that came before them, like a Michael Jordan sort of style, or an Allen Iverson style.īoswell: They were from inner-city areas that are rich in love but not finance. It was right before athletes really started mimicking their favorite rappers, wanting to emulate them. Johnson: Right around this time was the whole metamorphosis between rappers and athletes. That's where the NBA was when we first got in. At the time, hip-hop culture was baggy jeans, Sean John jeans, hats to the side-that was the Allen Iverson culture. Hip-hop culture had a big effect on fashion. Wade: It was just a different time when we came in. Gaines: We swore we all looked good, man, I tell you!īeavers: They look like preachers and deacons. Sami Jenks, stylist at Elevee styled James and Anthony for 2003 draft Rachel Johnson, stylist for James and Bosh Waraire Boswell, designer to James, Wade, Anthony and Bosh How did we get here? To find out, all you have to do is turn back the clock-and shield your eyes.
Today, James totes a $41,000 alligator bag Anthony wears fur hats to postgame pressers Wade designs his own ties and Bosh owns upward of 55 pairs of dress shoes. But what's clear is that the suits were bad and, ironically, that we can point to the 2003 draft as a jumping-off point for NBA fashion as we now know it. There are a number of interconnected theories and stories that help explain what happened. (Programming note: Check out ‘The 2000s’ on CNNTV and CNNgo Sundays at 9p ET/PT starting July 8.) That Jarvis Hayes might have thought, "F-k it, I'm gonna button all of these, I don't know where to start or end." That the pants were the worst part-that, no, it's got to be the collars-that, no, no, just look at those shoes. It is said that, on draft night in '03, Kirk Hinrich resembled a kid on his way to his First Communion.
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