Historical Events That Influenced Fashion In The 1970's

“Subcultural “tribes” such as punk, goth, and grunge influenced fashion design, while hip-hop fans adopted “urban” fashions”. (FACS). Fashion in 1970’s included bright colors, polyester material, and flared pants, which many people wore in different ways. In the 1980’s had lots of brown and tan color clothes, but had bright colored sunglasses and accessories. There were many historical events that happened in the 90’s that influenced fashion. In the 1990s, the internet became of age and that changed things forever. After the internet became popular people who worked in the computer industry started to have “casual Fridays” and could even start dressing down. “In 1991 “World Wide Web” (WWW) debuts and technology boomed after that; all of this sped the flow of information.”

Another way a historical event impacted fashion was MTV and MTV music video awards. Most celebrities came to the awards and most of them wore all different types of things. People at the show and people watching on TV would see their clothes and want to go buy and wear them. Different 1990s events affected fashion and still do today. The 1990s included many different types of fashion trends which influenced many different things and many different styles. There were many different popular things in the 1990s, one of the many things included grunge fashion. The clothing style included crumpled, ripped and torn clothes, men would wear T-shirts with flannels around their waists with baggy pants and popular Doc Martens. Many girls wore black tattoos chokers and black chunky boots. (FACS). “Black was considered the “color of the decade.” (FACS). The fashion trends also included hip-hop, which had some similarities to grunge. “Rappers wore baggy pants so low on the hip that the tops of their boxers were displayed.” (Frankel 68). They also wore top brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Polo Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Nautica. Another popular style in the 90s was getting tattoos and piercings and then