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Traditionally alternative clothing, shoes and accessories have been largely procured from independently owned businesses, such as the boutiques found in artistic districts of large urban centers. As some alternative fashion have become increasingly embraced by the mainstream, these types of small, specialized retailers have become displaced ...
Streetwear is a style of casual clothing which became global in the 1990s. [1] It grew from New York hip hop fashion and Californian surf culture to encompass elements of sportswear, punk, skateboarding, 1980s nostalgia, and Japanese street fashion. Later, haute couture became an influence, and was in turn influenced by streetwear. [2]
An alternative lifestyle or unconventional lifestyle is a lifestyle perceived to be outside the norm for a given culture. The term alternative lifestyle is often used pejoratively . [ 1 ] Description of a related set of activities as alternative is a defining aspect of certain subcultures .
The first half of the decade was relatively tame in comparison to the second half, which was when apparel became very bright and vivid in appearance. One of the features of fashion in the second half of the 1980s was the interest in alternative forms. In the 1980s, alternative trends became widespread. [3]
The early to mid-2000s saw a rise in the consumption of fast fashion: affordable off-the-peg high street clothing based on the latest high fashion designs. With its low-cost appeal driven by trends straight off the runway, fast fashion was a significant factor in the fashion industry's growth.
The clothing associated with heavy metal has its roots in the biker, [1] rocker, and leather subcultures.Heavy metal fashion includes elements such as leather jackets; combat boots, studded belts, hi-top basketball shoes (more common with old school thrash metalheads); blue or black jeans, camouflage pants and shorts, and denim jackets or kutte vests, often adorned with badges, pins and patches.
Punk fashion circa 1986, a hairstyle with dyed red liberty spikes Punks in leather jackets with spikes and pin badges, 2003. Punk fashion is the clothing, hairstyles, cosmetics, jewellery, and body modifications of the punk counterculture.
Grunge fashion refers to the clothing, accessories and hairstyles of the grunge music genre. This subculture emerged in mid-1980s Seattle , and had reached wide popularity by the mid 1990s. Grunge fashion is characterized by durable and timeless thrift-store clothing , often worn in a loose, androgynous manner to de-emphasize the silhouette.