The Grunge Look: Alice in Chains
Clothing style
By: Karen Mason Blair
Date: 1990
Source: Mason Blair, Karen. "Alice in Chains." 1990. Corbis. Image no. KB001123. Available online at http://pro.corbis.com (accessed July 11, 2003).
Introduction
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the city of Seattle was the center for a growing high-tech industry second in size only to California's Silicon Valley. The city became home for the thousands of young, upwardly mobile professionals ("yuppies") who worked for gigantic companies such as Microsoft and Amazon. So-called "grunge" fashion developed as a reaction to their chic, dressed-up style by the city's anti-establishment youth. In deliberate antithesis to the corporate look, Seattle's young people began to favor the torn jeans, clunky boots, and plaid flannel shirts of Washington State's lumber country.
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