Alternative fashion is fashion that at one point stands out from the mainstream fashion trend.In general, alternative, or ‘alt’, fashion does not conform to widely popular style trends of the times that have widespread popularity.It may exhibit itself as a fringe style – extremely attention-grabbing and more artistic than practical Scene fashion is youthful subculture followed by teen in western countries.It is categorized by specific colored clothing, bright hair colors.Scene fashion is known for its bright colored clothing, skinny jeans, ear gauges, sunglasses, piercings, large belt buckles, wristbands, finger less gloves, eyeliner, hair extensions, and straight, androgynous flat hair with long bangs covering the forehead and sometimes one or both eyes.Scene people often dye their hair colors like blond, pink, red, green, or bright blue.There are many types of alternative scene fashion,let us see a few examples,
JAPANESE ‘DOLL’ LOLITA FASHION: The people who follow this culture can almost be described as living dolls.This is mostly followed by girls.Japanese girls wear clothing and accessories that are opposite to the Japanese beauty standards.They were bold make up like western countries and dress extremely girly which almost makes them look like dolls.
DRAG CLOTHING: The term “drag” refers to the wearing of clothing of the opposite gender.They wear heavy make up wigs and dramatic clothing exaggerating the fashion of a particular gender.
GOTH: The goth subculture has associated tastes in music, aesthetics, and fashion.This fashion is marked by dark and analogous features.Both male and female goths can wear dark eyeliner and dark fingernail polish, most especially black.Styles are often borrowed from punk fashion.They also may wear silver jewelry.Their clothing, including black frill blouses, midi dresses or tea-length skirts, and floral lace tights. sometimes these clothes are worn with accessories such as bracelets, chokers and bib necklaces.
People following these alternative fashion are often criticized for their lifestyle and are victims of stereotypical comments but in reality they are just normal human beings expressing their taste and style in fashion.
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