How big is grudge and rock in Seattle today? (Olympia: neighborhood, buying)

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by MechAndy

California also had a similar style but it was a bit earlier.
While most people remember the 70’s for the disco thing with dance suits, a large portion of us wore waffle-stomper style boots with vibram soles, Levi jeans, down jackets and yes flannel shirts.

As a resident of both states I see lots of Washington girls wearing expensive pants with holes all in them.
You don’t see that in the San Francisco area much at all anymore.

I’ve always been a fan of grunge type cloths for colder winter weather but I sport board shorts a tee shirt (maybe a Pendleton over the tee shirt) and sandals or skate board shoes when it’s not freaking ice cold.

Grunge type cloths is still worn on the Olympic Peninsula and in rural NorCal but I’d hardly call it a fashion, it’s more like practical clothing for those areas.

Fashions come and go like holes in pants or a Flock of Seagulls hairdo.

Waffle stompers! Those evolved to mimic the fashion in the late 60's for hiking boots with vibram soles. The waffle stompers were actually shoes, not boots, that were designed to look like what you might call low-top hiking boots (I'm thinking of high-top sneakers vs. low-top sneakers). They were popular in the 70's with college students, even conservative students.

Bell-bottom jeans were another carry-over from the 60's. Plaid flannel shirts were at one time (and still are) a practical part of hiking attire, along with the leather vibram-soled boots. Maybe that was one source of the fashion influence. The REI look. I've seen comments on the Seattle forum in past years, about how everyone in Seattle dresses like they just got back from a week-long camping trip.

I see the shredded-looking jeans among women college students even now, in Denver's university area. It's surprising how long that fashion has lasted.

[Flyers Girl]

Originally Posted by homesinseattle

I’m a 50 something guy, moved to Seattle in 1989 when grunge was taking off, saw many a show back in the day, my favorite venue was the Crocodile Cafe. Some of the songs still hit me hard when I hear them played, good memories.

Ah, the Crocodile Cafe. My friend and I specifically sought out that place on a trip to Seattle in 2001. We saw Buckcherry. But we were there more for the venue itself. Loved seeing all the old band stickers on the walls and ceilings.

[Flyers Girl]

Originally Posted by Matt Marcinkiewicz

'90s Seattle band Sunny Day Real Estate just played Buffalo last Tuesday. I opted for bar trivia instead, though I would've gone to see them on a different day. Caught Portland's Modest Mouse near Niagara Falls two days ago...I'd imagine that these days Portland would have a somewhat significantly better music scene than Seattle, but I need to visit and investigate for myself

Wow, that's a blast from the past!

[jabogitlu]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

I see the shredded-looking jeans among women college students even now, in Denver's university area. It's surprising how long that fashion has lasted.

They were fashionable when I was in high school (around 2004-2008) but fell out. Surprisingly they are back in fashion again with Gen Z... I just shake my head at them because now I'm an old fart.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by jabogitlu

They were fashionable when I was in high school (around 2004-2008) but fell out. Surprisingly they are back in fashion again with Gen Z... I just shake my head at them because now I'm an old fart.

I didn't realize they've been in and out of fashion, and back in, and back out. It seems to me they've never gone out of style, but maybe that varies by geographic location. Since I'm in the Southwest, but also in California and the Seattle area in any given year, I'll catch a glimpse of them somewhere, and just assume they're still popular everywhere.

What I've also noticed, is that bell-bottoms have had comebacks in every decade. I've seen them in fashion magazines, where they'll show up for a few years, then disappear, then next decade come back. Now they seem to be just one of many current variations on pant-leg shapes on the market.

[rjshae]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

What I've also noticed, is that bell-bottoms have had comebacks in every decade. I've seen them in fashion magazines, where they'll show up for a few years, then disappear, then next decade come back. Now they seem to be just one of many current variations on pant-leg shapes on the market.

I used to love bell-bottoms back in the day... up until a wasp flew up my pants leg.

[ssmaster]

Originally Posted by someguy1234

Seattle was never like that, not even 30 years ago when "Grunge" was a popular musical genre. Are you asking if there is currently a big music scene in Seattle?

When I was in high school in Seattle before grunge a red plaid flannel shirt over an ac/dc or van halen T-shirt was almost a uniform

[MechAndy]

I’m sure some enterprising company put the waffle stomper name on their shoes.
We basically called all shoes/boots that had the vibram style treads on their soles waffle stompers because that’s what the tracks looked like when you walked in the snow.
Part of the fashion for some was to keep their lift ticket attached to their down jacket when they came back to school on Monday so that people would know they went skiing.
A rock and roll tee shirt under a flannel was indeed part of the uniform, that and a 4 finger lid.

[Hemlock140]

I just realized that I have several flannel shirts from Duluth Trading hanging in my closet that I wear in the winter. I was never into grunge though. I just like to be warm.

[Bubble99]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

I didn't realize they've been in and out of fashion, and back in, and back out. It seems to me they've never gone out of style, but maybe that varies by geographic location. Since I'm in the Southwest, but also in California and the Seattle area in any given year, I'll catch a glimpse of them somewhere, and just assume they're still popular everywhere.

What I've also noticed, is that bell-bottoms have had comebacks in every decade. I've seen them in fashion magazines, where they'll show up for a few years, then disappear, then next decade come back. Now they seem to be just one of many current variations on pant-leg shapes on the market.

There does seem to be more people wearing ripped jeans now in the US cities now, but I think it is mostly girls but it not grunge they are after and into wearing flannel and rock band T-shirt. I don’t think they listening to grunge or rock bands.

There is some grit fashion becoming popular in some US cities now like this https://www.gritnglory.com/ and https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/01...g?v=1458756692 and https://www.gritnglory.com/collections/whats-new

I thought Seattle was hub for rock bands? Now I hear other cities may be more into rock.


Looking at the past threads of Seattle there seems to be this myth going around that Seattle had lot of people into rock and roll, heavy metal and grunge. And that is false. After reading in the 90s and 2000s there was younger people into grunge but was a smaller sub section of the population that even if you where living in that time line it was sub section of the population.

And going on to saying today in Seattle look today is more hiking look, jeans, khakis, cargo shorts, cargo pants, yoga pants. Nothing remotely grunge at all.