"We're presenting positive role models who wear hip-hop clothes, and that's something that you haven't seen before on television."

Designers report a sharp increase in the sale of fake hip-hop clothes, and store owners are bolstering security as increasingly expensive brand names become thieves' new targets.

He wore hip-hop clothes without fear of harassment.

Two boys in hip-hop clothes, one aiming a handgun at himself, illustrate suicidal tendencies nurtured by poverty.

He came in his hip-hop clothes, and struggled mightily with celibacy, keeping rocks in his pockets to remind him of his course.

Ms. Whitcomb, 24, said she prided herself on taking women's figures into consideration, instead of making them swim in oversize hip-hop clothes for men.

I was supposed to wear glasses and a pocket protector instead of hip-hop clothes.

He dressed in hip-hop clothes and liked to clown around.

"At school, everyone else wears hip-hop clothes," Ford says, "but I'm an individual, and I think 50's clothes are cool."