Fashion Guide

There are obvious staples when it comes to OG scene and emo fashion. Skinnyjeans wins the award for most-remembered, but there were others. A LOT of the fashion was DIY alterations of generic clothes or band/fandom/pop culture merch you can easily find in stores today.

Accessories were often chosen to match outfits, not piled on with the goal to wear as many as possible. Long necklaces with a short necklace, with or without a choker. Bracelets and hats with colors that compliment the outfit.

Honestly, just look at images of OG scene kids and you'll see a variety of things aside from the few people mention. Eventually you'll be able to capture the look even while you're branching out to make the style your own. There are a few styles of scene fashion that can be sort-of categorized. Still scene, or based in scene, but also branched out to be a sub-subculture, which I'll cover later.


Staples!


  • Tank Tops (especially layered), band t-shirts, altered t-shirts, quirky t-shirts (especially in bright colors), cartoon/anime/fandom shirts, off-shoulder sweaters and shirts
  • Dual-color skinnyjeans, skinnyjeans in general, checkered pattern skinnyjeans, Tripp/cybergoth cargo pants, shorts (especially with leggings under), skirts (especially with leggings or jeans under), leggings as pants, tutus over jeans
  • Canvas high tops, chunky sneakers, vans, creepers, platform shoes and sneakers.
  • Fingerless gloves, fishnet gloves, quirky socks, jackets with thumb-holes, anime/cartoon/fandom jackets, brightly colored jackets with seamless patterns, dresses over jeans.


Accessories!


  • Checkered, studded and spiky belts, belts with stars, skulls, glitter and fandom imagery, seatbelt-style belts.
  • Spiked chokers, tattoo chokers, chunky necklaces, necklaces with diamonds, anchors, brass knuckles, handcuffs, razorblade and other weapon pendants, fandom pendants, random/quirky pendants.
  • Skulls, tiaras, and fandom merch in general were also common, like Batman and other comic book characters.
  • Kandi, sillybandz, jelly bracelets, silicone wristbands, threaded/friendship bracelets.
  • Piercings, especially ear gauges, snakebites, septum piercings, conch piercings, nostril piercing. Tattoos (especially star tattoos) fandom tattoos.
  • Hats with attached mittens (especially quirky animal/dinosaur/monster ones), beanies, snapback hats (especially fandom ones), bows, headbands, raccoon-tail hair extensions, hair extentions in general, pins/buttons.


Brands!