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Could grunge be a wardrobe saviour for less-than-glossy mothers?
Toying with the idea of a camouflage parka for autumn, I was struck with a style epiphany. The new mood for ’grunge’ is the PERFECT trend for mothers who spend any part of their day interacting with young children. In case you missed it, the 90s trend has had an update for now, heralded by Heidi Slimane at Saint Laurent and soon-to-be appearing on a highstreet near you.
For women like me who have a toddler and a baby it is nothing more than a fashion revolution. The new grunge
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mainstays of durgey hues, sombre checks, dark denim and prints that look like someone’s been sick on them… well, it hardly matters if someone IS sick on them, right? These are the kind of clothes that don’t care if they’re clawed with grubby paws or dribbled on, or grass-stained because you got too involved in a game of hide-and-seek. They were born to look dirty.
Which means that I no longer have to hide the stains, or get changed five times a day to be considered half-decent. In fact, as the whole ethos of grunge is the antithesis to
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squeaky-clean, a bit of kid-dirt actually adds to the look – who’d have thought it?
The icing on the cake is that the grunge-effect also applies to hair and makeup – a blessing to any mother who sacrifices a shower to get out of the dammed house! We no longer need to hide that we haven’t washed our hair for a week, or that our mascara is left over from yesterday. Rough-around-the-edges is suddenly bang on the money.
The last time we had grunge as an excuse to look less than polished, I was far from having kids so didn’t make the most of it. This
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season I’ll be making up for lost time.
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Molly Gunn - 8 Sep 13
Could grunge be a wardrobe saviour for less-than-glossy mothers?
Toying with the idea of a camouflage parka for autumn, I was struck with a style epiphany. The new mood for ‘grunge’ is the PERFECT trend for mothers who spend any part of their day interacting with young children. In case you missed it, the 90s trend has had an update for now, heralded by Heidi Slimane at Saint Laurent and soon-to-be appearing on a highstreet near you.
For women like me who have a toddler and a baby it is nothing more than a fashion revolution. The new grunge mainstays of durgey hues, sombre checks, dark denim and prints that look like someone’s been sick on them… well, it hardly matters if someone IS sick on them, right? These are the kind of clothes that don’t care if they’re clawed with grubby paws or dribbled on, or grass-stained because you got too involved in a game of hide-and-seek. They were born to look dirty.
Which means that I no longer have to hide the stains, or get changed five times a day to be considered half-decent. In fact, as the whole ethos of grunge is the antithesis to squeaky-clean, a bit of kid-dirt actually adds to the look – who’d have thought it?
The icing on the cake is that the grunge-effect also applies to hair and makeup – a blessing to any mother who sacrifices a shower to get out of the dammed house! We no longer need to hide that we haven’t washed our hair for a week, or that our mascara is left over from yesterday. Rough-around-the-edges is suddenly bang on the money.
The last time we had grunge as an excuse to look less than polished, I was far from having kids so didn’t make the most of it. This season I’ll be making up for lost time.
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Molly Gunn is the Curator of Goodness at Selfish Mother, a site she created for likeminded women in 2013. Molly has been a journalist for over 15 years, starting out on fashion desks at The Guardian, The Telegraph & ES Magazine before going freelance in 2006 to write for publications including Red, Stella, Grazia, Net-A-Porter and ELLE. She now edits Selfish Mother and creates #GoodTees which are sold via TheFMLYStore.com and John Lewis and have so far raised £650K for charity. Molly is mother to Rafferty, 5, Fox, 3 and baby Liberty. Molly is married to Tom, aka music producer Tee Mango and founder of Millionhands. They live, work and play in Somerset.
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