first impressions on bape?

[apes_bathing2]

just wondering what were everyones first impression when they saw bape. i thought "wow $100 for a shirt with a ape on it". and $200 for knock off air force ones. but this shit quickly grew on me.

[bapesta balla]

i thought fuck that shit is tight, but im broke! lol

[mythbauer24]

i thought it was something diff, but pricey. then i quickly grew to LOVE IT

[bapevt2]

I thought it was stupid... then i found the bapetalk forums and we've been going steady ever since

[Djizzl]

i thought it was tha freshest shit in life when i 1st saw it n i still do :cool:

my FIRST encounter wit bape was from a fape site tho when i saw all tha crazyy color combos. bought 2 pairs n then learned a lil more bout tha real shit n got really blown away...partly by tha prices n partly by tha ill designs lol

[kidrobot69]

my friend show me bbc when it first start off. i was like naw taht shit aint gonna last long at price. but i kept checking the site out and saw the all new things come out of it. then about the time i got my first bbc tee, i found bape. yet i still do not own a single bape item:(

[YoungGeneralNYC]

first impression when i read the first post of this thread... "WOW this shit is POINTLESS"

[Bape_lovers]

i first saw bape on a TV drama..the actor wore a hand-print t..it was fuken awsome..n i luved it ever since

[pogrebin soy]

i remember i was looking through every single site listed on www.iloveyourtshirt.com, because i wanted some fresh t-shirts. I eventually got to bbcicecream.com. I remember seeing the designs and being like "whoa, this is exactly what i was looking for". I browsed the site over the course of a couple of days and had all this stuff picked out that i was going to order, and i hadn't noticed the prices until i added a bunch of stuff to my cart. Then i was like "WTF?!?!?" and i just blew it off until i got a job and got enough money to buy the shit.

[blaze]

haha first piece i bought was a kaws x bape fireman tee saw it at some store downtown for 170 and was like shit i love this tee but its so much. took a few months to convince my mom to get me it haha. then i started lookin at the shit and saw it on pharrell (especially my grail the og red camo which i now have) and was hooked ever since haha
im a shopaholic anyways so used to spendin big money on "clothes with logos"-kanye west haha

[bigj713281]

i remeber seeing bape on mtv news they were showin bws new york openin n i was like dammm look at them shoes so i googled it n i was like damm that much 4 shoes (pickyourshoes.com)fuck it so then i found some fape sites n was so close 2 gettin fape shyt but i didnt want 2 get called out. then i found bt n bt2 market place n when i found tees 4 40-60 dollars then i was like fuck that fake shyt

[solefareal90]

i frst so nigo on this DUB magazine...and he had some apes...brazil colorway,and i loved custom air forces,or just any kind of air forces in wierd colors,and i was like "wtf r those"...then the madness began. =)


made a long story short^

[astro-dog]

I remember my friend had the cotton candy hoody and i was like waaaa instantly in love.

[SHESHYNES]

at First, I Thouht It Was Overpriced....even When My Bf Offered To Buy Me Stuff I Still Thought It Wasnt Worth It Because Most Of The Logos Were Too Repetitive. Ive Always Liked Pharrell So He Was A Big Influence On Me Buying Bape. Had Friends In Bws Even Before I Started Buying Bape. Dated Sum Bape Heads. Ape Generals Logo Just Got Me. AlwaYs Loved The Planet Of The Apes So I Started To Relate. Now Ive Spent A Few Gs In Bws, Made Some New Friends,and The Rest Is Sheshtory.

[blackmushroom]

Well I just liked being fresh, and I was like "well, this seems to be the new thing" so I bought an og blue camo for like 200 from a friend, and then I really started liking everything that had to do with bape.

[bapesta balla]

i got my first hoody bout 2 weeks ago from my friend bigbapesta

bache animal kingdome hoody $250

only thing i have so far =[

[bapeluv]

my favorite rapper wears it!!!!! LoL, hell no, that ain't it. something different and exclusive (back then it was harder to get) Walked by the Kyoto's BWS a couple of times then finally copped some bapestas and T's. Interested in it before, couldn't afford any of it, but since i stepped my game up, 1 of the reasons i go to japan n HK is for the BWS and BBC stores.

[SantaDuJuan]

Honestly, I wondered why they were so overpriced.
But then I found that one pair I just had to have, and I'm loving them.

When I first opened the box, I was shocked at how bright they were.

[Lil yoshi]

the first time was on that snoop dog and pharrels video lets get blow i saw that red camo hoddie and I was like dammmmmmm i need one of those but never had the chance but like 1 year ago i went to BWS Ny i saw al that camo shittt I drove crazy now its like my obession if dont rock bape u aint nothing

[wzcefiro]

Saw Pharrell wearing BBC(tees and Classic IC)+Bape(trucker) on Snoopdogs MV drop it like its hot.....since then........

[Enray]

Don't flame me, but when I saw the camo with rhinestones, I thought it was crazy ugly. But I've always loved the shoes and the shark, so I'm trying to get one of those for under 200. (I know I can't.)

[apes_bathing2]

at First, I Thouht It Was Overpriced....even When My Bf Offered To Buy Me Stuff I Still Thought It Wasnt Worth It Because Most Of The Logos Were Too Repetitive. Ive Always Liked Pharrell So He Was A Big Influence On Me Buying Bape. Had Friends In Bws Even Before I Started Buying Bape. Dated Sum Bape Heads. Ape Generals Logo Just Got Me. AlwaYs Loved The Planet Of The Apes So I Started To Relate. Now Ive Spent A Few Gs In Bws, Made Some New Friends,and The Rest Is Sheshtory.

sheshynes you are sexy as hell, how old r u if u dont mind me askin?

[Yom]

wondered into the BWS in harajuku in 2000 and thought "hasnt this guy just stolen the pic from planet of the apes?" but did really love the camo, just too much for my pocket at the time. re-discovered it a few years later and wished i had splashed the first time.

[Powerz22]

Someone had a batch of Fape Ts from China, asked me if I wanted some. I didnt know what it was and declined. Decided to google it an saw the site, then one day I stummbled upon BWS in London an have been purchasing ever since.

[BUKIsunrise]

AlwaYs Loved The Planet Of The Apes So I Started To Relate..


you sit on a throne of lies. lmao. jk. bape needs dr. zaius. ursus is over-rated.:p

[corey]

i first saw the ice cream boutiques on pharrell looked around and found bape then bought sum stas and that started it off

[Asami]

Some dudes on a dutch forum were talking about it, so when I hit up a local boutique (Patta) I asked the dude if he sold it. He said he didn't, but told me about the brand and the lining up and everything, and near the end he mentioned you could get the real gear in Hong Kong, where I just happened to be going 2 weeks later. Got my first Bape tee there at the Anytime store, and the rest is history ;) .

Highpoint was visiting several BWS in Japan this summer, of course.

[bigtulley]

when i first saw bape in 2005, i saw a pair of orange and green chompers that my friend had bought from bws nyc. i was like, what are these? i loved the colorway, because they were very different. he told me they were "bapes" and then showed me the website and i was like cool. i met another one of our friends that had some bapestas as well and at that time they formally introduced me to the bape brand. i hooked up with them about 3 weeks later to make my first trek to bws nyc. we stood in line and my first thoughts were like "wow". the colorways of the various bapestas just caught my eye like that. so much, that day i bought the italy chompers and the milo red bapestas for my first items. and the rest is history...

[westkid90]

When i first saw it, it was on lil wayne, and i didnt like it too much. wonder why :rolleyes: anyway, he was wearing the redcamo swarovski hoody, i kinda liked it, but it was kinda wack at the same time, cuz he had it on. But then i looked around and saw all the fape! i didnt know it was fape, goodthing a never bought it, then along came badboy and intoduced me to bt2! :D and he also helped me buy real shit on ebay, so since then its been fun!

[jinikari01]

GOOD THREAD...
this feels like a AA meeting. LOL!!!
HI, my name is jinikari, first time i got introduced to bape was by the j-pop duo m-flo and of course it was through VERBAL. A big fan of V. At first i didnt understand what the big deal was for him to wear bape. but more and more he showed up on mv and interviews wearing bape. i loved it. more and more, i realize how addctive i am to the brand.
my only regret i have... if only i knew about the brand back in 2002 when i used to visit japan every school break... damn you ex-gf!!! why didnt you tell me of this delightful company!!!

[chunger20]

believe it or not..through a hardcore band named
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they had a bape rip off hoodie using the college logo but said "A Cold World"
I thought wtf at first "ugliest hoodies"
looked into it more saw people in the cotton candy's and saw the multi camo hoood and the animal kingdoms thought those were tight and then led to me buying a fape and then more knowledge and now i reign supreme....jk...peace

[A Bathing Billionaire]

at first, i was skeptic about paying 70+ for t-shirts and 200 for some kicks, like some people here, but my friend put me on and ive been on ever since

[vanity rose]

"dude look at the f*$king price" http://smilies.instinctive-hosting.com/smiles/random/vroam.gif

[BapeManTaiwan]

i was like dang when i saw real bape cuz most i saw b4 was fake but i never messed with it until i decided to turn to my asian culture and now i got into it the older stuff is much better

[Skateboard T]

i first came across bape when my friend was looking for some af1's on the net and we came across a site that sold fake stas. i thought it was some kind of nike collab that i diddnt know about.

[SHESHYNES]

you sit on a throne of lies. lmao. jk. bape needs dr. zaius. ursus is over-rated.:p

shesh never lies you silly goose *muahz*

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j261/sheshynes/bape-1.jpg

ALL DAY

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j261/sheshynes/CIMG1274.jpg

EVERYDAY


:cool:

[Bapeman36]

when bape first came to recon i thought the shit was dope but the sizes were soo much different then they are today.. an XL was about the size of a Medium in most US brands

[WeezyF]

When i first saw it, it was on lil wayne, and i didnt like it too much. wonder why :rolleyes: anyway, he was wearing the redcamo swarovski hoody, i kinda liked it, but it was kinda wack at the same time, cuz he had it on. But then i looked around and saw all the fape! i didnt know it was fape, goodthing a never bought it, then along came badboy and intoduced me to bt2! :D and he also helped me buy real shit on ebay, so since then its been fun!


Yeah hating on Soulja boy and lilwayne is easy, but acknoweleding that maybe you just didnt like the hoodie is hard right?

[FreshKorean]

My sneaker friend told me about bape 2 years ago. That was when I started to like the design and he warned me about fakes the first day!!!

[tim2nyce]

the first time i saw bape was when i was surfing the web for sneakers and i came across 3peat.jp and i then first thing that caught my eye was the red bape camo and i was like damn $300 for a hoody?? then i ended up buying it :D

[icecreamman2]

dope designs. expensive but need to get me some

[Gin&Juice]

i thought the designs were insane and just made me wow, i needed to get me some especially the animal kingdom hoody so i saved up for a long time lol :)

[flu-roe]

gotta spend this cash

[a.sklar]

saw some of the shoes. went online, bought a pair - they were fake - i learned about it, then threw the shoes away

[flu-roe]

lol how much were they?

[EveryonesADamnBapeFiend]

saw the un-unkles on flightclubny.com while browsing for dunks, and I was like what the fuck are those?!?

[DUNCAN99]

i saw the shoes and was like shit nice colorways. i did some research and via hypebeast i landed on bt2. asked around for help in the bws london thread cuz i was going there and crs helped me out. then i went to london and bought a bapehead tee, 2 pairs of bapesta's and 2 keycords

[ShowerLauer]

My first bape experience was long ago when i saw some dude in the craziest hoody i ever have seen. (milo multi color hoody). Right after i surfed the internet for more info, and found the exactly same hoody at bt. I bought it and still have it. Bape is so rare in denmark, and thats what keeps me addicted. I feel fresh everytime i wear bape in the streets and so on. :)

[Yankskid55]

i must say great thread, so i wouldnt blame him for grave digging

i heard ice creams in drop it like its hot
connected it to bape
and it was love at first sight

[dopeboifreshyes]

my friend moved to the states from japan and when he went back to visit he brought me back a shirt and first of all i had never had a shirt come in a damn bag before i mean i was like 14 at the time and i didnt know why there was an ape face on it....but i rolled with it lol. then i finally started seein the sneakers and i was like idk if i should wear these bright ass patent/snakeskin knockoff af1 lookin shits...but of course i bought a pair and the rest is history

[bigyen]

"First impressions OF bape?" not "on"

[Stack Bundles]

my first impressions of bape? something elusive, rock and roll, underground, mysterious. it was like an exclusive pack of people who wore it and if people recognised it then they were cool people. a friend of mine works on ian brown's tour team and has rocked it for damn-near a decade, has hooked me up with some shit most of you would never see ... then hip-hop and america got hold of it and the rest is piss-history

[KIDtheSHIT]

Unfortunately the truth, stacks.

[crs-1]

my first impressions of bape? something elusive, rock and roll, underground, mysterious. it was like an exclusive pack of people who wore it and if people recognised it then they were cool people. a friend of mine works on ian brown's tour team and has rocked it for damn-near a decade, has hooked me up with some shit most of you would never see ... then hip-hop and america got hold of it and the rest is piss-history

Yeah definately have to agree with you mate. I remember mates of mine who worked at Mo Wax used to rock it and when you saw people wearing it you would ask "Where did you get that" and they would reply "My mate got it for me from Japan" and you would just go "Noooooooooo I want it but cant have it"

I have to say when it went to the US it was its downfall, not because the US shouldnt have had its own shop but it coincided with that whole "We can just put out any old crap and people will buy it" phase which we are still seeing now.

[paulio4prez]

its funny how it originated as such an underground subculture brand along side undercover and other brands... and now fape is on every dude trying to be cool. where as most of the other brands have stayed true to their exclusivity and design roots

nigo is more businessman then designer.

the opposite can be said of jun takashi, fujiwara, watanabe and others

[crs-1]

its funny how it originated as such an underground subculture brand along side undercover and other brands... and now fape is on every dude trying to be cool. where as most of the other brands have stayed true to their exclusivity and design roots

Its called Greed isnt it. Nigo doesnt really have any style/individuality its all ripped off from other people who he desires to be like, so its hardly suprising that when he got the chance he ruined it with the stuff we see now.

[KIDtheSHIT]

I miss those times when everyone was looking at me and was asking what I was wearing. And now I see so many fapers. So sad ...

[paulio4prez]

I miss those times when everyone was looking at my and was asking what I was wearing.

when the color camo hoodies with B A P E first came out, more than one person offered to buy the hoodie off my back.

of course i turned them down. i felt like the fucking man.

[Stack Bundles]

Its called Greed isnt it. Nigo doesnt really have any style/individuality its all ripped off from other people who he desires to be like, so its hardly suprising that when he got the chance he ruined it with the stuff we see now.

exactly he's ripped off nike, puma, countless corporate logos ... the guy has zero originiality and it's admired like it's the greatest thing ever.

i can't lie, i've owned a closet of nothing but bape at one point. he brought the camo print to life, but since hip-hop and america got hold of it, it's desire has dropped rapidly.

nigo as a businessman is someone i admire, but as an originator? please, he can't think of shit by himself. his most desirable parka was designed by skate-thing!

i know people who have met nigo and they've all told me he's doing nothing but staring outside of his car window looking at books/billboards/posters for which logo he can take and manipulate for himself.

[KIDtheSHIT]

when the color camo hoodies with B A P E first came out, more than one person offered to buy the hoodie off my back.

of course i turned them down. i felt like the fucking man.

Haha same here. When I wore my crystal purple camo the first time some guy asked if I bought it from Lil wayne lmao.

[crs-1]

exactly he's ripped off nike, puma, countless corporate logos ... the guy has zero originiality and it's admired like it's the greatest thing ever.

i can't lie, i've owned a closet of nothing but bape at one point. he brought the camo print to life, but since hip-hop and america got hold of it, it's desire has dropped rapidly.

nigo as a businessman is someone i admire, but as an originator? please, he can't think of shit by himself. his most desirable parka was designed by skate-thing!

i know people who have met nigo and they've all told me he's doing nothing but staring outside of his car window looking at books/billboards/posters for which logo he can take and manipulate for himself.

So he doesnt design and make all the stuff himself :confused:

you are gonna tell me next that Santa Claus isnt real :)

[Stack Bundles]

So he doesnt design and make all the stuff himself :confused:

you are gonna tell me next that Santa Claus isnt real :)

hahaha

dude, you know the majority of current bape fans think he's the greatest thing since sliced bread. they won't even recognise him ripping off recognised designs/ brands half the time.

[aznxjustin]

when i first heard bout bape i was like damnnn 70-80 bucks for a tee but that was when i was 13 lol when i had no money or job. now i look at it with a totally different perspective.

[(b)ape_child]

I was like 13 n compared how many gummy bears I could get for a t-shirt

it was a quite simple shirt too,, on some site my cousin showed me

[kidrobot69]

thought bape was stupid until i saw kanye rocking it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KANYE IS THE TRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTH!

[BabyMilo718]

was watching japanese music videos starting with m-flo, then learned verbal was in Teriyaki Boyz, saw the heartbreaker video, fell in love

[seXlexcia]

i lol'd

olooolololololololol

[FogTownEazy]

i thought , "shit, ive been looking for a hoodie that zips all the way up for years! thats genius!" lol copped a fake, found out it was fake, went on a mission....

[bapesta balla]

hahaha

dude, you know the majority of current bape fans think he's the greatest thing since sliced bread. they won't even recognise him ripping off recognised designs/ brands half the time.

honestly, sliced bread aint that good.


but seriously, i aint a big fan of nigo or anything, just like some of the designs.

[london kid]

i thought they was weird...the patent look nice but i wasnt feeling em...now i live in it

[twinkle little sta]

copped my first and felt "yeaa exclusive".. over the years ive seen the fapes grow and then i felt more superior

[luxplus]

When I first saw BAPE, I thought it was some stupid ass knock-off of Air Forces...then I found that weird BAPE website from a while ago and got hooked.

[DIRTY]

first impression was wtf is bape and why would spend your money on that? then i got some stuff and felt like i was the shit. when i wear my clothes and shoes people just stare and they hate. so i'm like man you aint up on this