In today’s world, how people act, what they say and what they feel is not so much dictated by what’s immediately around them as it is by the culture they belong to. And when we say culture, this does not necessarily equate to the culture of the country they belong to. Nowadays, culture can refer to anything from music genres to neighborhood cliques.
The way people dress has long been affected by the culture a person belongs to. Japanese people would persist on wearing obi while Americans might usually be seen in shirt and jeans. Some people, however, subscribe to a different form of culture clothing.
Some style of dressing up depends on one’s music genre preference. One good example is the hip-hop music. Hip-hop, generally, is more than just music. It is a way of life and affects the way a person, dresses up, speaks and thinks. This is the reason why there is an upsurge in people who follow the hip-hop or the pop way of clothing. That, in itself, is a different form of culture clothing.
Culture clothing is sometimes referred to as alternative clothing. Culture clothing basically stands for individuality in the same way that music genre stands for self-expression. It provides an alternative to the stiff way of clothing of yuppies that symbolize the rigidity of the system. It usually goes against mainstream way of clothing.
For the hip-hop culture, culture clothing basically consists of oversized shirts and baggy pants for boys as well as fit shirts and denim skirts for girls. There is also the excessive use of big “bling” – earrings, necklaces, bracelets, etc. Some even go the extent of having their teeth gold-plated.
Gothic fashion is another form of culture clothing. It was inspired by the Victorian culture of mourning and is usually characterized by excessive morbid use of dark colors. As opposed to Gothic fashion, punk fashion is characterized by loud colors and outrageously eye-catching hair styles. It was inspired by the fashion style of Vivienne.
