How to Be Grunge (for Guys and Girls)

Boys

Jeans are very important to grunge. Ripping your jeans is acceptable, but not too much! (Ripping them too much will make you look dumb.) But if you do, consider wearing pajama pants under it, to keep from freezing. You can also patch your jeans.

1. Listen to grunge music!
   

   Mark Arm, from the band Mudhoney
   Above-ground grunge includes the big four: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice In Chains. Original, more underground bands include Mother Love Bone, Mad Season, Screaming Trees, Temple of the Dog, Mudhoney etc. (Knowing underground bands is a must! If you don't, you don't have it down.)
2. Don't buy expensive things.(things from thrift stores and flea markets are a good way to shop.) If you buy pre-ripped jeans for seventy dollars and call yourself grunge, you're a poser.
3. Buy Grunge t-shirts with bands like Soundgarden and Mudhoney on them.
4. If you want to dye your hair, dye it with Kool-Aid
5. Flannel shirts are acceptable. Especially if your sleeve is ripped a bit but not all the way around.
6. Big sunglasses such as the ones Kurt (Jackie O) wears are cool, or the black ones Layne Staley (Ray-Ban Predator 2) wears in the video for "Would?".
7. Drawing on white T-shirts is grunge.
8. Summer can get hot. So get a pair of three quarter jeans, but not too baggy and rip up the ends where the fold is, using a sharp object, burning with a lighter can work too. Long dirty white socks and ripped up chucks go well with this as well.
9. Kaki shorts or cargo shorts was popular by Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam.
10. Corduroy was another material Eddie Vedder and Kurt Cobain wore. The Corduroy Coat was/is grunge.
11. Grunge did not care what they wore. They wore whatever. They would get out of bed and wear whatever they were wearing.
12. Buy actual CDs, it's cool to have an mp3, but have more CDs (or vinyl). It really adds to the feel of it.
13. Don't pay attention to any of these steps. Wear what you want, just realize that just because something hasn't been washed, doesn't mean it's dirty. You can wear what you want. Grunge comes from your own intuition.

Girls

1. You don't have to do much for the clothes, just a t-shirt and jeans and maybe some flannel will do.

Both

1. You can listen to the grunge music in the guys section, but the feminine grunge bands are L7, Bikini Kill, Hole, Babes in Toyland, etc. That goes for both types.
2. Buy stuff from thrift stores and flea markets. Don't buy expensive things because, once again, if you buy pre-ripped jeans for seventy dollars and call yourself grunge, you're a poser.
3. Have a couple grunge band T-shirts, such as Screaming Trees and Hole. Also, find old bands, and make sure you research them cause you don't want to sound poser-ish when people ask you about the band.
4. You can be a part of the punk/grunge riot grrrl movement. Look up its views and respect it.
5. If you want to dye your hair, dye it with Kool-Aid.
6. This is your choice, of course, but many grunge artists let their hair grow long and greasy.
7. Buy thrift store, flea market, and garage/yard sale items. Some stores are fine. Like Wal-Mart, Target, etc. As long as they're cheap.
8. Draw on white t-shirts with black permanent marker.
9. Flannel was only necessary because gigs were often played in cold temperatures in the Northwest, and it was durable and cheap. It's a good choice, but not necessary.
10. Wear Converse All-star. Don't replace them if they become dirty and ripped up. Dr. Martens are more punk but those are all right too. Or simply wear cheap shoes from your local Sam's Club!
11. Wear black sunglasses. Not sports shades. The old Blues Brothers ones are great.
12. For cold weather, wear straight leg jeans. Cuffed if they're too long. Ripped up is good, if you do this wear long johns underneath or patch them with mismatching fabrics. Also, you can paint on them. Go totally DIY.
13. For warm weather, wear cheap shorts. Or cut off some jeans.

The Attitude

1. Don't care what other people think.
2. Kurt Cobain hated conflict. He just wanted to share his music and express himself.
3. Most "grungers" were rebels. They disliked society and media and didn't trust large firms and corporations.