The 1990’s – a decade filled with mini dresses, flannels, crop tops and scrunchies. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Alice in Chains – are all bands had a huge take on the sometimes bizarre 1990’s fashion trends. It is known as the ‘anti-fashion’ era, as people took to minimalism in their clothing. Slowly, the 90’s trends have made their way into the fashion of today.
Grunge in the 1990s
A look that dominated in the 90’s was the grunge look; inspired by the popular grunge bands of the 90’s. Grunge fashion began in the year of 1992.
Teenagers aimed to look as if they’d gotten out of bed and thrown on whatever they could find. Long, unwashed hair made you a ‘hottie’, and dreadlocks were even better to achieve the low maintenance grunge look. Piercings and tattoos were all the rage, and the more visible they were, the cooler you would be.
Popular Grunge Trends – flannel shirts, loose & distressed stone wash jeans, flared jeans, doc martens, rock concert t-shirts, thrift shopping, clunky boots, converse all stars, denim jackets.
Hip Hop Trend 1990s
Sportswear became acceptable and even fashionable to wear in the early 1990’s
. Spandex tights were very trendy on girls – especially if they were fluorescent. Nike and Adidas were considered to be up to fashion.
This trend influenced the ‘gansta’ look , bringing in backwards caps, hoodies & all the other infamous clothes associated with rap. Basebal and basketball jerseys were consistently worn, along with halfway-down-your-ass pants.
Gothic Fashion 1990s
Then, there came the gothic 90’s fashion. Typically, a goth would sport dyed black/exotically coloured hair, have painted fingernails (usually black), wear plenty of eye liner – either on their eyes or outlining their lips, have a pair of black leather boots and a morbid ‘I don’t care about anything really’ attitude.
Popular Gothic Trends – corsets, studs and spikes, chokers, leather, lace, leather boots, gloves.
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oooooh, i love 90’s fashion! i usually find that clothes at my grandmother’s closet (in 90s we get packs from USA and that was pretty cool in poland! ex: ‘i’ve got trousers from America!’ and everybody was jelaous!). and i hate expensive ‘flannel shirts’ from stupid shops like H&M, wchich really are just shit… i love grunge, not ‘post-grunge’ — THIS doesn’t exists for me!
great note!
WOAH ^ language. i think you need to have more picture