Finish Your Breakfast: How Cereal Mascots Influenced Today's Style Trends

Style was really part of a complete breakfast.

Jun 29, 2013
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Saturday mornings were awesome as a kid. Your only worry was waking up early enough to watch the illest cartoons, and breakfast was always a huge bowl of sugary cereal. People have waxed nostalgic about those glory days in many forms of media, be they comics or full-on song and dance. However, what most people don't realize are the parallels between popular cereal mascots and their inadvertent influence on today's trends.

Bear with us here, we took a look at some recent designer collections and street style shots, and the results were surprising. In fact, the following evidence is proof postive that tour favorite cereal mascots subconsciously influenced your style*. Read on and finish your beakfast to find out How Cereal Mascots Influenced Today's Style Trends.

*Or you know, we just noticed some coincidences between outfits and cereal mascots and threw this together for fun... because entertainment.

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Tiger Stripes

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Mascot: Tony the Tiger, Frosted Flakes

Danny Brown's Jeremy Scott x adidas Originals jacket is totally Grrrrr-eat!

Chic Sailors

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Mascot: Cap'n Crunch, Cap'n Crunch

The theme of this John Galliano collection was clearly "Crunchitize me, Cap'n!"

Bunny Ears

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Mascot: Trix Rabbit, Trix

Trix are for kids, Comme des Garcons however, isn't.

Excessive Fur Coats

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Mascot: The Crazy Craving, Honeycomb

Remember this '90s mascot? Kids would turn into him when they needed a bowl of Honeycomb. We're guessing Kanye West was one of those guys.

Colored Jackets and Baseball Caps

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Mascot: Dig'em Frog, Smacks

Kellog's Smacks mascot is probably the best -dressed creature in the cereal kingdom. Channeling his style is a smart move.

Multicolor Everything

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Mascot: Toucan Sam, Fruit Loops

Street style veteran Wanny Di Filippo is no stranger to standing out. It'd make sense if he started every morning with a bowl of Fruit Loops to help him decide which colors to wear.

Pointy Everything

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Mascot: Count Chocula, Count Chocula

Gareth Pugh subconsciously paid homage to the chocolaty cereal mascot in this design.

Pastel Frankenstein Looks

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Mascot: Franken Berry, Franken Berry

Thom Browne's A/W 2012 collection was no doubt inspired by his childhood breakfasts.

Green Coats and Hats

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Mascot: Lucky Leprechaun, Lucky Charms

Not only magically delicious, they're stylishly delicious too.

Owl Masks

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Mascot: Newton the Owl, Cocoa Hoots

Maybe Kanye was onto something? This obscure mascot for Cocoa Hoots predicted the trend in the '70s.

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