American ‘zoku

It’s no secret I love the the whole bosozuko/shakotan/yankee thing, and it’s been really cool seeing it gain some ground in the US over the past 2 years or so. People have kind of known about it, but it took Arthur Fong’s over the top super high quality build to really cement boso’s legitimacy in the US.

And that might be the problem, with a high profile build comes the imitators. It makes me so happy to see someone like Yellow Sub step up and do his thing, but I dread the day coming when boso goes mainstream in the US, if there’s one thing americans are good at is fucking things up and half assing shit. I just want to see it stay pure and somewhat underground, I don’t want to ever see things like this Failstang become common, people just blindly following styling cues when they have no idea about it’s roots, it just starts to lose all meaning and look ridiculous. Keep it real, but keep it on the d/l, if everyone understood it and started doing it, it wouldn’t be cool.