The
1990s inspired a new wave in fashion, with an anti-conformist approach inspired
from the punk sub-culture.
It was the decade marked by the beginning of
accepting tattoos and body piercings in the mainstream culture and the
popularization of an causal look, including trainers, hoodies, jeans, and
T-shirts. The 1990s were a decade of minimalist fashion aesthetics that
recycled some fashion styles from previous decades, such as 50s, 60s and 70s.
The
grunge fashion style made popular faded floral prints, slip dresses and plaids.
Grunge was a fashion style born in Seattle and made famous by Pearl Jam’s Eddie
Vedder, Hole’s Courtney Love, and Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain. The generation X of
the 90s adopted an anti-fashion statement.
Flannel
becomes popular in the early 1990s. The flannel
shirts of the decade were loose fitting and padded, for optimum comfort.
Other
popular men attire were polo shirts, anoraks, wool sweaters, black leather
jackets, corduroy, Acid wash denim jackets, and sheepskin coats.
The jeans become
straight leg. Grunge bands, skaters and rappers popularized the baggy carpenter
pants.
Surfers’ favorites were the cut off jean shorts, the baggies and the
colorful board shorts. Popular accessories were trapper hats, Converse All
Stars, tuques, Doc Martens Boots, white Adidas trainers, Aviator sunglasses,
and neon colored trainers.
Slacker style featured sleeveless flannel shirts,
and full length granny dresses with floral motifs.
Women wore baby
doll dresses, mini dresses and
miniskirts, oversized sweaters, neon colors, denim button down shirts,
sweatshirts,
T-shirts, black leather jackets, trench
coats lined with fake fur.
Many women
wore bike shorts, tight-fitting trousers, leggings, colored tights, and
tartan skirts. Popular accessories for women in 1990s included
headscarves, leotards, leggings and exercise-wear, cowboy
boots, court
shoes, and penny
loafers. In the mid 90s become popular slip
dresses as part of a trend of wearing underwear as outerwear.
In the mid 90s the hippie fashion of
60s made a revival with turtleneck shirts, hippie style dresses with floral
motifs, gypsy tops, and lace blouses. Very popular were also the olive green
dresses and blue or yellow denim shortalls.
