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THE TRUTH ABOUT EMO KIDS.

We can fix the birth of emo fashion in 90’s (in the 80’s the aesthetic was the same of hardcore), in other words, during their fusion with indie. We musn’t to understand like a boom or a way to say I’m so emo!, because  that was the look that they were wearing, although theirselves don’t accept that they were wearing in the same way.Then, in this epoque, the emo aesthetic was created, and this was a mixture between indie and nerd aesthetic beucase in their lyrics a lot of times had philosophy and literature references and quotes. 
The boys usually have a short fringe. The look is so retro, rhombus or woolen sweaters, often sleveless, cardigans, straight corduroy trousers, super slim or straight jeans. Sneakers (Converse, for example) or boat shoes (they prefer the deck shoes with more sole). 1491 Doc Marten’s shoes (in black version) was a classic. The mosket-key ring reminds a 90’s air.

The girls usually wear a more fringe (but straight) or an hairstyle like garçon ormedium long hair (like Audrey Tatou in Amélie). Like boys, they usually wear vintage T-shirts, sweaters, slim or straight jeans, sneakers like Converse or Mary Janes (specially Doc Marten’s).
Both usually wear checked shirts. The socks might be in romboids or similar motifs. The brogues are used but in a less way.
 
Then, why had been designed as emo an aesthetic that is so different than the real? 
If you have a look at my last post, you can be that in 2000’s the emo genre fell into the mainstream and one of their bands (AFI) changed their look to horror punk style and later to a new concept of aesthetic, more androgynous and new. More bands were influected by them - or at least, they had the same influences - did the same. It’s easy to see pop-punk bands (for example Blink 182) which one of their members had a fringe yet or they make up their eyes with eyeliner (Green Day), etc…this aesthetic (fashioncore) was a logical evolution of the look that was selling in that moment but with a fake name. The scene people were in this moment dressed like fashioncores, were in charge of  to do an aesthetic evolution.


Then, is probably that you have a question…¿who are you to say what is emo and what it isn’t? 
For start, the information are obtained in through of people that are really involucrated in emo scene since years ago. I remember - in 2006 - how the information in Wikipedia had been changed in a progressive form. At first, it contains the true information, butfor the infoxication and time it converted in the idea of fake emo that everybody know. 
More or less in Wikipedia explained that they are young people that they didn’t have any obligatory aesthetic (like Punk), usually wore glasses, wore with stripped T-shirts with dark or not brightly colours. In it bands like Mineral or THe Gep Up Kids were mentioned. Now, this information has been deleted and reemplaced by that is commonly called as fashioncore.

It’s so easy to see old photographies by 90’s bands and we can see perfectly emos between normal people (basicaly they are worn by the same aesthetics cannons) or magazines scans.
For the people who don’t belive me or don’t believe the real information, the emo was a DIY genre because it takes away from mainstream…and the most famous suposed emo bands appears in MTV or wanted a lot of money for showing. In the true emo the most lyrics talks about existencial doubts, doing reference to philosophy, literature or art meanwhile the fake emo (called weemo too) talks about High Schools, being sad  because your boyfriend/girlfriend brokes up with you and to be a rockstar with hairspray and black nail polish. 

 Seventeen Magazine publication in 1997