alternative fashion
Subcultural clothing choices
Alternative fashion encompasses clothing and styling that deliberately diverges from mainstream trends—goth, punk, steampunk, lolita, grunge, and similar subcultures.
The term signals affiliation with countercultural communities and rejection of conventional aesthetics: She's been into alternative fashion since high school.
What counts as alternative shifts as mainstream absorbs former subcultures.
- gothMelancholic music subculture
- dark academiaAesthetic romanticizing scholarly Gothic elegance
- punkRaw, fast rock genre
- safety pinsShielded-point fasteners
- band teeGarment featuring musical act
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