90’s fashion styles – Popular 90s fashion trend: the cutoff jeans
90’s fashion saw a definite shift towards minimalism in everything,
hair styles, jewelry and attire. As a supreme example of this not even
the length of jeans was spared with cut-offs and slashed jeans being the
norm all throughout the decade and sharing other media influences.
Cutoff jeans were all the rage for both men and women, women sometimes
combining the cutoffs with baggy sweatshirts, simple t-shirts or
whatever you wished. The fact is that since the nineties were a decade
of minimalism and grunge this meant that most people enjoyed the idea of
wearing older things, going to thrift stores, and cutoff jeans were the
epitome of this trend since they had to be quite worn and faded in order
for them to become cutoffs. Cutoff jeans were not as much a fashion
statement as a way of benefiting from the sturdy of denim when doing all
sorts of activities which implied moving around a lot. As we all know
the way jeans are made is not that sports friendly, but in cutoffs you
could play any kinds of sports or do any sort of household chore without
skimping on the style or sheer sturdiness. The most important aspect
when it came to cutoffs wasn’t necessarily how much you cut off, or for
that matter how much you left, it was all in the fringe, and all the
washings that were require in order to obtain the perfect distribution
of fabric.
On the other hand those who were more influenced by the music that they
listened to as opposed to sheer market powers were more likely to wear
their worn jeans slashed at the knee, below the knee, above the knee,
wherever. Nobody knows if it was supposed to mean anything but what
everybody knew was that it was cool, hence everybody did it. Jeans saw
their definite peak of popularity during the decade, being on a steady
climb since the seventies, and they became even more popular in places
where before the nineties they were forbidden, meaning beyond the Iron
Curtain which fell during that time all across Europe being topped in
1991 by the fall of the USSR, thus for the first time allowing youths
from most of the globe to be able to at first legally buy jeans, and
then to slash them, cut them, color them or wear them on their heads
with the rest of the civilized world. |
