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:
“You will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.”
—Lucy Stone (1818–1893)
“You can’t be what you don’t see. I didn’t think about being a doctor. I didn’t even think about being a clerk in a store—I’d never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.”
—Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)