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Philadelphia Streetwear: South Street Holds the Line

Philadelphia's style history is as deep as any city's on the East Coast, the town gave hip-hop some of its earliest legends and gave menswear the term "jawn." Its streetwear still runs through the street that has always run it: South Street, with the metro's reach extending out to King of Prussia and up the Lehigh Valley.

South Street: Platinum

Platinum trades on South Street, and there is no more Philadelphia address for a streetwear shop.

King of Prussia: Free Press

Free Press holds down Gulph Road out in King of Prussia, in the orbit of one of America's biggest retail concentrations, and deliberately independent within it.

The Lehigh Valley: The One in Allentown

An hour north, The One trades on Hamilton Street in downtown Allentown. The Lehigh Valley is its own market, growing fast and heavily Latino-influenced, and its streetwear demand is real and underserved.

The corridor

Philadelphia sits in the middle of the densest stretch of the network: Newark and New York to the north, Sneaker Junkies in Providence and Gift in Waterbury beyond, and the Pennsylvania page covering the state.

The full story has the receipts

Every shop, address and detail is in the full guide, and the store map covers 21 states.

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