i appreciate you going out to the countryside to prove that you don't live online before getting into the nitty gritty that is the klein bottle that is internet fashion trends for weird functional Y2K jackets

This is one of the best videos I've seen from this channel. Documentary style, dynamic shots, multiple locations... SO cool! I know stuff like this isn't easy to produce, so props for all the effort. made for a great documentary.

Y2K seems to be "relaxed cool" which feels like a breath of fresh air

I always loved the overly complex and seemingly optimistically hyper futuristic aesthetic that seemed to be everywhere in the early 2000s like it wasn’t about functionality but just the unadultered imagination of what the future could hold

CONSOOOM MORE PRODUCT

I seen that Analog jacket on Depop about a year ago and never pulled the trigger..the regret is OVERWHELMING 😢

More utility and storage space in clothing needs to make a comeback. It is such a good idea in the first place, being able to hold more and do more with what you are wearing has always been a good thing!

The production of this video is amazing. The various shots from different locations are seamlessly interconnected both in terms of editing and content cohesion. The contrast between the cozy ambiance of your home and the dynamic outdoor scenes truly make the video stand out. Amazing job!

I have a Calvin Klein Jacket from around 2003, and it leans into this style. It looks like something you can see in Andor. It has an asymterical zipped flap that covers the main zipper. Also, I think Vexed Generation needs a shout-out in this space. Their work through the 90s and early 2000s is very, very technical and unique.

Been rocking an old north face steeptech jacket for a while now funny to see that era of stuff become a trend guess its cool for me cause i get more brownie points for no reason

Shoutout Allen, best shots in the game. Would also add Nike Code/Mobius by Tony Spackman to the list of 'brands'. Recently picked up the Analog Black Ops, lights fortunately still work

I love when you are reporting live from the scene (a meadow)

This was an amazing video Antwon!! Feels like proper investigation and journalism here and i love the variety of settings which engages my adhd brain. Also, the Zeon is legit a Gundam collaboration isn’t it? It has the logo of the principality and everything 😮😮

Allen is the man

What a stellar video mate.

Y2k tech jacket videos are my favorite genre of Instagram content. They're super interesting and definitely have an earnestness to them that makes me happy to engage with them. Big "I just think it's neat!" energy and I love that.

great video - i always wanted the burton MD ("analog clone") jacket (predecssor to the ipod variant), and when i discovered the term 'techwear' a few years ago i mostly thought 'this is like 90s snowboard/raver stuff with cuffed ankles' - at this point (as the silhouettes of that era have come full circle), it's cool to see the direct correlation.i think much of the DNA of that era persists in snowboard apparel design.

What's fascinating about the Zeon jacket in particular is that the artist who originally designed the Zeon mobile suits for Gundam began his artistic career as a fashion designer for mens businesswear. It would seem this design really has come full circle!

When I was a teenager in the late 90s, I had a snowboarding jacket that came with a built-in clandestine smoking apparatus. It had a bowl under a flap in the wrist of the sleeve, with a tube running up and out near the collar. Perfect for getting secretly blazed on the lift.

Hair lookin cuuute Antoine ❤❤ Fr tho really suits you

yeah I'm loving the outside bit that you've recently added. Nice touch

Probably your best video to date. Absolutely priceless. 👏🏾

Loved the different locations and type of shots Antman! Keep up the good work.

I have long thought about Heritage Techwear - all the way back to the creation of gabardine and the first Burberry trench coats; Barbour wax jackets; Prada Sport is another brand germane to the video and that era.

incredible production quality. Your ability to be educational and entertaining at the same time is one of a kind.

The intro is so good. Also love this mixed format, although it's kinda hard to hear you talk at times (when I'm on tablet).

I love Analog and I didn't even know that it was a tech-wear brand.

I love how you shot this videos especially the scene with the snow board. Really cool stuff!

by far the best acg/tech yt channel. then you upload great content like this and take things up another notch. interviewing two guests and the founder of Acronym?! what great content brother!

Massive respect for stashing Duplo, not many people know how good they are 😎 Great content as usual, thanks.

Lol analog synth

Great video! I'm glad some of these incredible examples of design are starting to get the recognition they deserve. A few years ago I thrifted an airwalk jacket with tons of insane tech features and I've never been able to part with it.

The other day I found myself wondering when the "Dog the Bounty Hunter" headphone Oakley Sunglasses were going to get their revival... it's about 20 years, so the it's about due. Anyway, excuse me while I dig out my minidisc player and check if the Nokia 3310 still has any charge left in it.

I'd love to see more videos on affordable techwear/techwear looking clothes without necessarily having any utility. I don't really care about branding I just think that some specific pieces look very nice. This hairstyle suits you very nice btw!

one of your strongest videos I’ve ever seen you just don’t stop improving

born in 88 lived through all this time! Dope breakdown of the resurgence and definately a more fun movement than some around.

I'd love to see some of those crazy early designs come back, or at least be updated for a modern audience. Definitely space in the market I think. Also, A+ work on the video production. Top quality!

ANTWON! Thank you for this! Been waiting a while for you to release- so stoked. Great job!

Production quality through the roof on this video. Good job man!

very impressed by the dude you visited who started his own seconhand shop. as a young person into seconhand fashion, that's literally a dream, but he just did it like no big deal

I dress vintage ivy prep and would never wear any of this stuff but I love these videos nevertheless. Function intersecting with fashion as tech comes and goes more quickly than ever is fascinating stuff. Great work.

I got a classic 2000s burton Snowboard jacket and it has alot of the techwear appeal in its design at the time. Glad I kept it

Woahhh... the "Zeon" was actually a GUNDAM COAT?? That's honestly so sick... since most gundam apparel is just cotton blend cheapest avail T-shirts, etc.... that stitched ZEON crest stopped me dead!

Fashion was sick in the early 2000's. I remember all manner of clothing specifically made for walkmans, phones, and mp3 players. Oversized pockets and stitched in channels leading from them to the neck for headphones. Shit was wild.

I used to own a ton of this stuff. It all wore out super quick, and never was around to rebuy a year later. Still miss the early techwear from the 70s-90s. There is a TON of lost techwear from the 80s that never left the cities that spawned it.

never fails to deliver, thank you for being with us even though techwear is dead

I need that Oakley jacket you showed in The Past Times Vintage

Around the same time as those Burton Analog jackets were the Burton Audex: snowboarding jackets with built-in speakers in the hood and Bluetooth capabilities. On the left sleeve, you had a window with a smart watch type interface that controls, making phone calls and audio controls. I still have my jacket from early to mid 2000s but the battery is shot and I don’t even think I have the speaker attachments for the hood anymore. I’ve been interested in getting 3-D printed blanks just to fill the holes up.

Great video Antwon, you clearly went above and beyond with every aspect of this video! Seeing the J111TS-CH come up in it shook me haha

Thank you Ant for bringing a design legend into the conversation 🙌

Vintage Airwalk is so slept on, there's absolutely tonnes of interesting stuff for very little money out there.

I really love the clothes that don't look like they are all that they are. VERTX has my favorite pair of jeans, and they look normal. Have a couple ScotteVest jackets that are pretty decent.

I'm never gonna be able to look at an acronym piece without thinking about Errolson's pronunciation of "Gundam" ever again

Liking the new cut Antwon

This is a great video format. Good job.

I have a long sleeve poncho-hoodie jacket that has snap buttons at the wrist, armpit and waist. The brand is something like Billabong or Airwalk, that type of brand.

Welp. Time to raid my old collection of y2k snowboard stuff that hanging around my parent's attic 😅

Ma veste préférée dans ce style: Burton x Carhartt.

I use to be a fan of oakley in my early teens, stupid high quality for the price (i have a t shirt fro’m them that’s 20yo) and love the backpacks I retired one that was my daily for overtime 10 years.

mf actually goes outside with his thousand dollars wardrobe smh jk jk, loved the video and especially the insights from Mr. E himself!

Philips Rush MP3!!! Still have mine!

SUPER-THICK inflatable jacket would be dope, with a nice exterior layer that traps warmth inside the huge tubes = fire

Worth seeking out Andrew Bolton's 'Supermodern Wardrobe' from 2002. This era has fond memories for me. Big collector of Mandarina Duck paper jackets (all long since decayed!) and the early Griffin Laundry/Studio stuff based on Ikea flat-pack ideology

I am 38, going on 39. I remember these trends. Honestly I blame video games and anime from the early 2000's. Look at any Square-Enix game from that era. SOOO MANY ZIPPERS AND BELTS. it is undeniably cool, in a "fuck it why not" way. Now I am firmly in the middle aged part of my life. I am looking for cargo pants that don't like I have side airbags, but I want the functionality. The best part about all these jackets and pants, where it eliminated the need for a backpack a lot of the time. (If you had JNCO Jeans they also eliminated the need for a parachute). I am curious to see how all this will be re-imaged when we have reduced the number of things we carry down to a wallet, phone, keys, and maybe a variation of Airpods. Also I am still waiting on my "Back to the Future" self drying jacket and affordable self lacing shoes. THOSE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE OUT 10 YEARS AGO!!!!

Could we get the full interview with Errolson?

Zaku jacket?!?!?

I wanna see more techwear snowboarding. Please put on some kind of trench or duster so it flows behind you. Or sling jacket lol

Do the materials hold ? I have some old windbreaker from Burton and some of the plastics have pretty much melted down.

Video about techwear for tropical areas (Florida, Latinamerica in general) when?

Another great video from my favourite KZfaqr: ThisIsAntwon

Lights in the hood actually sounds like a really good idea for the 6-month complete darkness we have here.

Fully fleshed out Fashion Journalism, my god we don't deserve Antiquity....

Here's a second comment following my digesting the video: - I think it would have been interesting to mention the sustainability aspect of shopping vintage tech items. Buying new petroleum-based clothing (made of polyester and nylon) has a tremendous environmental footprint and buying this stuff second-hand is a real boon from our planet. - That said, as the "CONSOOOOM" comment has underlined it above, shopping vintage tech items we don't really need is just another form of compulsive consumption and those funny little tech clothing videos are not just made to put a smile on our faces: they are advertisements, which I've certainly fallen victim to recently 😅. - To end this on a positive note, I'd say that it is very empowering to discover that a lot of the stuff that comes out today being passed off as new and innovative design is just an iteration of stuff that came out 20 years ago. You can shop second-hand pieces that are very similar to the new stuff (Analog ==> Acronym) for a fraction of the price, given you are reasonable with it and don't start binge-shopping😅.

That is a nice Jacket

what a quality video, congrats and thank you

Excellent video here boss

j120 is so so good. needs more love

Ace vid, what a total joy!

4:52 is that blue jacket real? if so what's the brand / make? I need that one

so many pockets, YESSSSSSSS

yooo, this is pretty cool! i didn't know Tumi made jackets; i have this really nice tumi bag (somewhere around 500-600$, don't worry; it's thrifted) that i carry with me for when i need a reliable rucksack, pretty amazing that they actually make other stuff too! tho i guess it is partly my fault that i didn't notice when i was researching the price of my bag. also, there was one time when i found a Porsche Design jacket at a local thrift spot, loved the look and feel, materials felt great, but sadly it had a giant tear going from the armpit down to almost the side stitching of the jacket, couldn't pick it up, ever since then i've really admired Porsche clothing and accessories; especially the old WWII military watches; just absolutely gorgeous timepieces!

Loved the video !

I love tech wear but there’s no reason for me to be in it when my weather is normally over 90 degrees

I would pitch in that if you find something you're interested in on a site selling archive pieces, don't be afraid to use their contact page or DMs to send an offer, they'll almost always take haggling well!

My biggest regret in life was turning down the oakley medusa complete with bobhead from a store.

Mate, that Zeon is one legendary sick J, my gosh.

Some of those jackets look like travel jackets.

blud took a trip to the Snowdome, wild

I bought a stool from a Japanese arcade on buyee. Niche AF 😅

1:59 The strap on the backpack is called a chest or sternum strap. Why is it over the throat?

"this shirt has three arms' immediately after "clothing that does stuff iand s useful' lol

I'm 2 meters tall, I want a jacket that actually goes down far enough to cover my bottom when I sit on things. There was a trend that had longer coats being in fashion, but that was over 20 years ago. Given that the weather here hits -30, I need things warm. Anybody seen anything lately?

12:10 you thought it was the Balenciaga $1750 bag of chips for a moment

no no i swear THIS is timeless. this isn’t a trend for real this time you guys.

yesssss the tekken shirt

Why is bro so philosophical 😭

Your best video yet keep it up

Really neat!

The problem back then was the price point. The good ones were bit to much for my tax bracket. Cheaper options were made of horrible polyester and made so much damn noise. I made the mistake of buying a convertible jacket for my daughter back then and I swear, it smelled exactly like a camping tent. She sounded like windshield wipers as she swung her arms. smh

Dang im not super into techwear, but this was a cool vid. What is that stussy jacket at 13:50 ? I cant find it