Nirvana tees and ’90s jeans: The fashions of Boston Calling Spring 2014
By: yiseowl - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 1:52am
Music and fashion trends work in cycles: Guitars are cool, then lame, then cool again. Jeans go from high-waisted to low-rise and back. Just when you finally perfect that Don Draper side-part, everyone’s rocking long, unwashed locks. It probably has something to do with the Oedipal progression of idolizing our parents, then rebelling against everything they stand for, then growing to love and embrace them.
There’s nowhere better to observe these cycles at work than music festivals, bringing out swaths of young people eager to look super trendy by wearing stuff that was cool 20 years ago, and 20 years before that. The best example? The band T-shirt that dominated this past weekend’s Boston Calling Spring 2014 edition wasn’t Jack Johnson, Death Cab, or Modest Mouse. It was Nirvana.
Just as fun? The people who couldn’t care less about trends and just wear whatever they want. This past weekend myself, Jim Martinho, Katie Pelkey, and @OnlyInBOS took to the concrete jungle of City Hall Plaza to document (via Instagram, obvi) the best and worst of Boston Calling fashion.
FLORAL SWAGGER FOR DAYS
SO YOU JUST ASK YOUR BARBER FOR “THE MACKLEMORE” OR WHAT?