Grunge
Most readers will be familiar with grunge for it’s association & tag for late 80’s & early 90’s alternative bands such as Mudhoney & Nirvana. Orignally a tag given to the music by Mudhoney to describe their sound. But along with the music came the grunge ‘fashion statement’ something which threw the fashion magazines & designers at the time into a frenzy.

Grunge as a fashion was based on the attire of the bands at the time. Taking flannel shirts, band tee’s & ripped jeans. Of course the look wasn’t to fit in with the fashion associated with grunge it was merely due to the inexpensiveness of the clothes in the first place. Thus making grunge cheap & cheerful fashion ironically taken on by designer labels at higher prices.
But grunge was more than that to the media darlings, taking grunge as a cult statement along the lines of Generation X & focusing on the superficial aspects instead including a hilarious piss take called ‘grunge language’ made up by Sub Pop's Megan Jasper.
Later on of course the grunge look was abandoned for the next trend in the fashion industry but it’s still a style that continues in the alternative scene nowadays.

With a more current grunge look taking some of the older elements of band tee’s & ripped jeans alongside doc martens or black converse (Kurt’s choice of footwear in ’94).

The more mainstream approach to grunge though includes hoodies & baggy jeans in the outfit but this easily gets confused with the whole nu metal kid look.
You’ll be easily able to find current grunge-esque items by raiding band merch shops such as t-shirt grill & Attitude as well as the more nu metal orientated shops like Loser kids & K8's sk8's.
Not to forget your best bet is vintage shops for more authentic old band tee's (that is if you don't have any already!) & decent non-designer trashed jeans. Or take the d.i.y approach & trash a pair of jeans up yourself.
Article: Leona
Sources: Wikipedia

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