In the early '90s, I hewed to grunge fashions, such as they were: jeans with holes, t-shirts with logos under plaid shirts, Doc Martens, and a brown leather blazer (as opposed to a biker jacket. Pride of my wardrobe, bought for $7 at St. Vincent De Paul, disappeared at a party. Waah…). I also strove to keep my hair at a consistent degree of lank. I took showers, but I didn’t wash my hair more than once a week. Usually on Saturday, so I could exchange the denim and flannel for a micromini and a turtleneck. Anyway, I brushed it, sometimes with a solution of conditioner and water to keep dreads from forming, and took action if it became downright greasy. Anyone else do this?
No.
But thank you for answering my question. Back then, I always did wonder whether kids looked that way on purpose, so now I know.
Thanks, sweetie. 
Have a nice day.
[is overcome by helpless laughter out in the hallway]
Still do on those week long fishing trips! 
Does have the colorful hair wraps with bells and crap tied on the end count?
Never the grunge hair even though I was and still am a HUGE Kurt Cobain fan.
I did do the Courtney Love kinderwhore thing for awhile-baby doll dresses,bra showing,messed up hair w/ baby barrettes etc.
Yes, it does, evilbeth. How did you keep that clean?
Um. I still only wash my hair once a week or so. This is a fashion thing? I thought I was just being lazy.
Whatever works for you, Opal. The thing is, I didn’t realize until much later, after she moved out, what was bothering my roommate. I couldn’t understand her complaints: I wasn’t dirty, it was just my hair. What it was, was all the smoke it retained. But you don’t smoke, so you should be okay.
I had grunge hair in high school. I used to wash it every day, but I usually left conditioner in it and let it air-dry. That gave it the same greasy, unkept appearance :).
A typical high school outfit was a rock tee shirt, black leggings, Doc Martins, and a flannel. My favorite flannel shirt was a black and white one that got caught on a fence once and ripped. The rip got bigger and bigger until the whole bottom of the shirt was in tatters. My mother used to scream at me for wearing it.
Rose
Oyeah, Blue! Did you ever wear the black leggings under ripped jeans?
Ripped jeans, t-shirts, leather biker jacket, boots, unkempt hair? I’ve always dressed that way.
Guess I’m “stuck in that phase” even though I was that way before Cobain regrettably put pencil to paper and mumbled his way to stardom.
No greasy hair here. But I had the hairwrap thing. And a variety of hair colours, frequently more than one at a time (Rainbow Brite, anyone?)…
I had the grunge look down through most of the '80s, actually - baggy ripped jeans, flannel shirts, oversized leather jackerts. When Nirvana got real popular I got compared to Kurt Cobain a lot because I had pretty much the exact same hairstyle.
Was it Jello-red, Badtz?
Apparently I was a grunge fashion-maven as far back as about 1975. And I’ve kept it up, more or less, ever since.
Yes, I just cut my hair, but it’s hardly ever neat. And I don’t think I own a pair of jeans that doesn’t have a hole in them. My flannel habit came mostly from living in Maine where flannel isn’t fashion, it’s function.
All in all, I’d say me and Neil Young are simpatico.
I sure did, Rilch.
Mom loved that too.
Rose
I did the grunge thing too…long dirty blonde hair, boots, ripped jeans, jackets, long-sleeved shirts under holey shirts etc…it was fun but I grew out of it.
I just washed off the wrap when I washed my hair–it didn’t clean the hair inside but that’s okay because once you took the wrap off, that hair pretty much fell out and broke off anyway! I also did the Kool-Aid hair color thing too!
I had a pretty cool hair wrap: alternating red, blue, black, and green threads with a small silver ankh at the end. It was cool because my hair was really long at the time, although one time when I was skateboarding the ankh wrapped itself around the bow of my shades and whipped me right in the eye.
Overall I was clean; hell, I washed my hair two times per week most of the time. Otherwise I was all about flannels, Docs, leather, my vintage t-shirts, the works. At the time I played in a punk grunge band. Now it’s called alternative rock. Go figure.
Wow, cool.
Other people who don’t wash their hair more than once a week. I am vindicated! (And “grungy”, apparently.)
My hair is very long and thick. I like my long hair, but it takes way too long to wash it every day. My hair is also dense enough that it doesn’t show the grease and dirt for quite awhile: about two weeks, actually, but I really haven’t gone more than two weeks without washing it.
Really. I swear.
(When it gets REALLY nasty, I tie a bandana around my head.)