The Streetwear Report: Inside Europe’s Biggest Essentials Fashion Moves

Streetwear environments are the kind of place that either allows brands to run with the fads and run, or allows brands to establish a platform.  Essentials hoodie is not just about using the Post-it note to display a logo, it’s about something that you can make all your wardrobe around for season after season. The ideas are neutral, oversized, the fabrics are heavy weighted and it’s consistent across everything — from hoodies to tracksuits to shoes. Let’s take a closer look at what items the store offers and why each one should have a place in rotating your stock.

The Brand’s Approach

Essentials’ good reputation rests on their self control. As for competing on flash, the label is more focused on a minimalist approach, as is evident in its colorways, silhouettes and branding. shop-essentialshoodie.ca rides on this wave of minimalism throughout the site’s categories. There is no feeling that it fits on, stacked ups, or that it doesn’t belong, at all. This sort of crew makes a 3-year-old hoodie look best with an out-of-frosty pony jacket from last month. Also, you won’t see seasonal color changes or anything that will pull you away from the rest of the catalogue for one-off changes. Each new piece fits into a palette with the many pieces you already have, so you don’t get an outlier patch of furniture in your room.

Essential Hoodies

As always, the hoodie reigns supreme in the stars and stripes lineup of fashion, so it’s hardly surprising that it still is. Drop shoulders, heavy weight fleece and a boxy fit that fits oversized and true to size as desired. Easy to pull into multiple fits around a single hoodie, washed neutrals to deeper hues, the fabric also is durable enough to stand up to every day wear and tear without pilling or otherwise becoming unwearable. Wear Essential Hoodie on top of a jacket in the winter or as a stand alone with joggers for an easy evening but still effortlessly stylish.  Pick one in your standard size for something that looks less size. If you prefer a big fit which made the brand famous, chose the larger one.

Essentials Tracksuit

The tracksuit set has the same quality fabric as the ones, straight pigsuit-style. Matching top and bottom with a roomy fit across the chest and shoulders and tapered at the ankles. It’s athletic with a you-don’t-need-to-be-technological approach and it’s comfy first and foremost. Add sneakers and then Essentials Tracksuit is a running errands fit! You simply have to replace it with something more streamlined in the shoe and it instantly takes a step up into the evening. You can also break the set down and wear the top or bottom separately with something else in the wardrobe as neither will lean into a matching set look.

Essentials T-Shirt

This t-shirt collection has the biggest restraint overall. More substantial cotton than a regular tee-shirt, it’s in a square box shaped dresser and encompasses few, typically just some little logo placement, instead of any over the top branding on the neck. You can wear Essentials T-shirts under a jacket or hoodie or on their own with pants and a hat. In this evening the days include when you want the outfit to be casual. Far more durable than usual fabric because it does not thin out over time or from repeated washings, and drop shoulders complement the silhouette of the hoodies. Choose a pantone neutral color for something you use on a regular basis, or for the rotation a more dramatic color.

Essentials Pants

The pants as a whole follow a similar design to the rest of the collection – while looser throughout the leg, they taper at the bottom and pair with almost everything else on the site.  Essentials pants and joggers are the No. 1 choice in the area, and they use a fabric that’s structurally nearly the same as the hoodies and tracksuits—so, anything from two different sets would appear on purpose. The waistband holds in all day long and the tapered ankle finish ensures a clean silhouette with sneakers and/or boots. Take a neutral pair to start, and develop another color when you make sure you have your pair that fits on you on a stretcher.

Hats and Shoes

With caps and beanies, it’s a pretty simple fare to keep things pretty simple, with small logos finishing the look. And, just as the fashion grasp, shoes complete the ensemble with the same thinking: neutral shades and a low profile from which the Essentials shoes doesn’t stand out in order to not steal the spotlight from the rest of the attire. Both work to tie in the whole ensemble around the hoodie/tracksuit, and not detract from it.  If you always wear the same tone with your hooded sweatshirts and jackets, you can get away with wearing that same tone with the shoes and hat, but be careful not to look completely uncoordinated; if you don’t care, just wear anything to make the rest of the outfit more of a harmonious whole.

Create a Full Fit

What makes shop-essentialshoodie.ca really effective are the connotations that the categories have with each other. Having a Hoodie, paired with a pair of joggers, and a cap makes an outfit.  That’s the benefit of having a brand with the same style palette and same fit across all categories: When you purchase one piece you’re not just purchasing one piece — you’re buying a health care wardrobe that fits! Let’s take one or two basics (hooded sweater, joggers) as the starting point and gradually add stuff as you see what you are grabbing at the most. You can create any Category with any name, and don’t need to build them in any particular order, since they all fall under the same group, with one link to shop-essentialshoodie.ca.