Emo Fashion

What does Emo stand for?
Emo has derived from a genre of music, hardcore music from the 1980's and in the 90's the music genre transformation lead to the development of emocore. The softer approach of the music lead to the development of the Emo genre. This type of emotional type of music with punk, rock influences caught rapidly the public's attention and expanded into a highly mediated style. The term Emo was quickly related to being emotional and hypersensitive, leading to speculations that Emo lovers are individuals who feel misunderstood and are highly depressive. The media helped spread this genre around the world and more and more people started to relate to Emo subculture.

Emo fashion style
Every music genre develops it's own fashion style and characteristics, just like punk, rap, goth and others. Emo fashion style is very easy to recognize as it has a little bit of both punk and rock fashion styles. The main characteristic of the Emo clothing is color. Dark colors match perfectly with this style, thus black, dark red, dark gray, dark green are the most popular colors when it comes to Emo fashion style. Unconventional is the way to go when it comes to creating an Emo look, so the outfits are meant to capture attention.
Emo clothing is usually characterized by the following fashion items:

# skinny jeans for boys and girls

# tight dark colored T-shirts featuring different Emo prints

# belts with oversized belt buckles

# studded accessories

# Chuck Taylor All Stars

# skate shoes

# hooded jackets