What’s Your Take On… Grunge Girls?
Style.com says Seattle girls circa Soundgarden and Cyclops are It.
Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Sep 06, 2011 at 02:00PM
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Although not overtly Seattle- or Northwest-centric, there’s no way style.com could have thrown Beauty Icon: The Girls of Grunge up over the weekend without this landscape or our scene.
Yes, of course Courtney Love is in it, as is Bridget Fonda’s character in Singles. Portland gets a couple of mentions, as does, ahem, Portlandia. But what to make of the larger idea that the early ‘90s—when, as style.com reminds us, "of Nirvana’s Nevermind and Pearl Jam’s Ten,"—keep creeping up in the realm of fashion and style?
Is it just me or does everyone except Seattle want to glorify, romanticize, and generally bite the style of Old School Seattle?
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You still see lots of grunge style on Capitol Hill. I’m not really a fan, since it makes everyone look dirty and smelly. But it’s definitely there.
It’s more of a punk grunge, like the Kathleen Hanna, Justine Frischmann, and PJ Harvey photos, than the basic, unstylised flannel slacker look of Bridget Fonda or Kim Deal.
Granted, I’m not FROM Seattle (who is?) – but I’ve lived her 15 years and still adore hints of grunge: loose floral dress and cardi’s, lots of layers, leggings, short lace-up boots (though maybe this time around with a pointy toe and kitten heal, instead of the traditional Dr’s.)
Victoria
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loved the movie but Bridget was actually a little too cutesey for Seattle. not enough tattoos or piercings… the actual look for girls was more ‘punk goths go camping at the renfaire’. guys were more distinct – on every corner was a handsome guy who looked ready to commit fratricide & usurp the throne…
- it was fantastic.
can’t stand the nerdy look nowadays. how today’s girls do without eye candy i just don’t know.