Wholesale clothing is now available from most major brand names and designer hip hop wear manufacturers.
Some recent trends in hip hop clothing have seen a move away from in-your-face rapper influenced designs to more mass-market friendly designs from major clothing manufacturers. In other words, the clothing designs have lightened up quite a bit - acknowledging that hip hop clothing - and the attitude projected by the entire hip hop crowd - is just like most other trends: more imagined than real. Designer jeans and other designer urban wear are no exception.
As designs began to migrate from the rapper-inspired, and usually rapper-owned clothing shops to more established, mainstream labels the transformation was quite predictable. It is a bit of a joke for major clothing designers to pretend they are rebeling against the status quo. They and their customers are the status quo.|Because of changes in the fashion market enterprising clothing merchants can purchase decent sized lots of slightly outdated items and sell them in bulk at wholesale prices - often on the internet. These items usually go for much lower prices than you can find in most trendy stores that stock designer clothing.