The fact that people are actually throwing around the term "grunge" is
so weird...I was young enough in the 90s (born 1994) where I wasn't
shopping for clothes, or trying to get any type of 'look' using a term
like grunge or punk or anything (actually didnt really care how I
dressed until like freshman year or later lulz thats a product of having two brothers and being a tomboy country kid) actually i never really
witnessed any fashion,..uh movements, i guess, as a kid in my tiny little
country town, until maybe the emo thing was all big. but it's weird people are now saying like "that's so grunge-y".
I even just got an email from lookbook saying, with a picture, "Bebe Zeva
completes her black & grey throwback to grunge icons with an
American Eagle Outfitters graphic baseball tee, flannel shirt and AEO
sneaks!
"
Maybe it's just weird because the 90's still seem very tangible to me. when that whole neon-craze-80s movement sort of happened notto many years ago, it felt like the 80s were ll solidified and in the past, whereas even though i was just a young unknowing kid, I still remember how everyone around me had that look and now people are citing these references and it's almost surreal. but these are people the same age as me, too. Maybe it was just because i was really a "kid" so long. I had no urgencey to grow up and wear nice clothes and makeup and whatnot (nor much now...) so i never entered, not had an opportunity to enter that worl really. the internet is making it so every trend that comes along is almost done to absolute death so quickly. like, we see so many versions/images of a trend so quickly it gets old so fast. that whole "peplum shirt/skirts" thing already feels so old and contrived feeling.
and the grunge this is just weird, too. it looks like everyone is playing dress-up because they are going at it to quickly and eagerly, to obtain this new 'look'. It's interesting though becuse besides the high cuts, crop tops, and flannels, it doesn't really feel like what the 90's seemed like at all. Now, people are doing grunge AND trying to be so good looking/pretty by new standards (keep in mind im approaching this 100% from my female's POV) they don't look grunge-y and dirty and carefree at all, they actually look insanely uptight trying to obtain this image. I watched a documentary filmed in a school in the 90's, for my sociology class once, and it was pretty interesting just how baggy and careless they all dressed, even the rich kids looked poor lol. I think the standards of obtaining that image were lower because the internet wasn't there for them to dissect themselves apart on viewing thousands of images a day.
Also for the fact that this whole fashion movement is completeley rooted in the past, not a current band or anything. even the "emo" and "scene" things centered around bands, and personally i felt myspace reallycaused emo music and fashion to evolve into scene music and fashion while it still used often, and then it grew up and became hipster on facebook/tumblr/etc. and now it's like this grunge thing is just a sub-topic of this whole 'hipster' trend. someone on tumblr, i don't remember who, said it was just a bunch of "priveledge white girls wearing a nirvana shirt" and even if that sounds condescneding it seemd like the perfect way to put it.We have gotten to the point where we are now not so much referencing the past but revisiting it and dissecting it. Depending on how you define post-modernism, it's kind of interesting.
It's also annoying though...extremeley annoying. not the "grunge thing" but just this whole internet fashion thing you know...every new trend that breaks through immediatley gets chewed up and spit out my tons and tons of these people who obviously have money to burn, and most of them look to be "privledge white girls" skinny straight haired white girls, ya know, so maybe it's easy to feel annoyed because they seem to have it all so easily. the body, the look, the nice pictures, the blog covered in endless, in this case what they're calling "soft grunge" photos..
.I actually have a couple friends, they don't follow internet fashion close enough to know what I mean if I said grunge was apparently cool now, but they both are knock-out naturally beautiful and have crazy fast metabolism. They always invite me to eat unhealthy food with them and it's usually also at the only times i get a chance to see them. I eat healthy just naturally, I've never liked pop, i love veggies, grilled chicken over fried, etc. so I am lucky because i get less tempted I guess, but i have horrible metabolism. I have the body type that puts on muscle very easily but is very hard to loose fat. I have narrow shoulders/hips so it all goes to my stomach instead of evening out. I ran track and XC right along with one of these friends and ate healthier than her but wouldn't dream of having her body. sh has the type of body girls get who do crazy cutting diets for those bikini hows, y know? but back to the point, both of them just have it so god-damn easy, everything is just handed to them and they don't have to try and get people to like/be interested in them, it's the other way around. So maybe I think of them when I get pissed off at this whole new "grunge" trend..how contrived it feels. it isn't even being created by a social/music movement, it's just these privilege fashion girls trying to act cool and carefree, when actually it's insanely contrived, and it's like they're using it to try and come off as badass when they are just ..boring..i guess.
