A Played out Brand by Nigo from Japan, rocked by wangsters and hypebeast. Copied Nikes AF-1's (which are now also played because of bape's replica "Bape-Stas".)
Wangster: "Yo Yo check it out, i went down to new york, and got me a new fitty cent album, souljah boy album and some Bape hoodies and shoes yow!"
Normal Person: "Faggot, your whack ass style wont get you anywhere, face it your a normal person tryina play tough"
Normal Person: "Faggot, your whack ass style wont get you anywhere, face it your a normal person tryina play tough"
by Yomomomomoma December 01, 2007
Some clean ass shoes that come in a shit load of colors. Bapes were created in japan and spread to the U.S. bapes is short for bathing apes. When he made the shoe, he gave it the name bathing ape meaning "spoiled kid".. like a momma ape bathes a baby ape.... u get it? So if u got bapes then u must be spoiled. But once again, they some clean ass shoes!
by that boi dee October 13, 2007
A tacky overpriced fashion by some guy named Nigo in Japan. Bape caught on around the mid 2000s around 2005-2006 in America mainly because it was spearheaded and shown off by guys like Lil Wayne, Pharrell and the whole Hyphy movement. Bape also spawned a fashion that's dead now thankfully and spawned a many imitators using the overdone design atheistic as Bape, on hoodies, shirts, and other shit and sold for less than Bape, to people who couldn't afford it or simply lived in cities with no stores that sold it(almost every American city that's not L.A. or New-York).
Bape further proves that if you slap rarity, a high price, and put the only stores that sell it in famous cities know for status(New-York, Los Angeles, Tokyo) that you can get a few status obsessed assholes with the money to blow to buy something that's just ugly, like most clothing items that cost money, just overdone with a label on every inch of the clothing.
Bape is only supported now by rich hypebeast who want to be urban in the suburbs. Even then, you may find it rare to find a hypebeast who still wants Bape.
Bape further proves that if you slap rarity, a high price, and put the only stores that sell it in famous cities know for status(New-York, Los Angeles, Tokyo) that you can get a few status obsessed assholes with the money to blow to buy something that's just ugly, like most clothing items that cost money, just overdone with a label on every inch of the clothing.
Bape is only supported now by rich hypebeast who want to be urban in the suburbs. Even then, you may find it rare to find a hypebeast who still wants Bape.
by RolphSemensDickOvensUWIDI March 12, 2011
A Japanese clothing company that makes ugly clothes that look like pajamas. They are ridiculously priced, and bought by spoiled rich kids because terrible rap artists like Pharrell, Lil Wayne, and Young Jeezy wear them. If you wear this brand of clothing, you are nothing but a mainstream trend follower robot.
by zetox August 27, 2006
by BathingApe671 April 26, 2013
1. word used to describe anything incredibly over-hyped.
2. word used to define clothing incredibly unappealing to the eyes.
2. word used to define clothing incredibly unappealing to the eyes.
by babybrother3294 September 28, 2010
by SnakeDR303rd March 27, 2011