Clothing
Clothing is a strong signal that all gangs show. The clothing gangs wear allows rival gangs to identify who is friend and who is foe. For example, the uniform for Hispanic gangs are standard and easily recognizable. Gangs such as The Latin Kings would wear long white T-shirts, baggy pants, and either a bandanna or a hat sometimes both. Black gang members are individualistic with their clothing. The gang would wear a specific clothing and certain accessories the would match their crews colors. For example, the Crips and the Bloods, The bloods gang color is red so to identify themselves they would wear red.
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Famous quotes containing the word clothing:
“Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 3:4.
“You will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“The band waked me with a serenade. How they improve! A fine band and what a life in a regiment! Their music is better than food and clothing to give spirit to the men.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)