Starter jackets are jackets made by the Starter Clothing Line

Starter Clothing Line

-Rise and expansion:Starter was founded in 1971 in New Haven, Connecticut by David Beckerman, a former basketball player for Southern Connecticut State University, to manufacture team uniforms for high school athletic programs....

 that were a fad

FAD

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 in the early 1990s. Starter jackets were typically designed to show allegiance to a particular professional or college sports team, and prominently featured both the team's logo and colors. There were widespread robberies of the jackets as they became a larger status symbol that were well covered by the media.

Cheaper Starter brand products included the Starter Cap and the Starter Hoodie, and were also similarly designed for a particular team. These too were a fad in the early 1990s popularized by Hip-Hop artists. An example can be seen in the 1991

1991 in film

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 'hood' film

Hood film

Hood film is a film genre originating in the United States in the late 1980s to early 1990s, which features aspects of urban culture such as hip hop music, street gangs, racial discrimination, poverty, and the problems of young black men coming of age or struggling in a predominantly white society...

 Boyz n the Hood

Boyz N the Hood

Boyz n the Hood is a 1991 American hood film written and directed by John Singleton. Starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Ice Cube, Laurence Fishburne, Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Angela Bassett and Regina King, the film depicts life in poor South Central Los Angeles, California and was filmed and released...

directed by John Singleton starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube

Ice Cube

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 and Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne

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