Clothes and music- are they connected?

Think of vintage clothing and what type of music springs to mind? 40's, 60's, 80's? What about rave music? The first image that popped into my head was people wearing neon clothing. So this got me thinking, are clothes and music connected?

I used the website ask500people to see what people think about the relationship between fashion and music.

The first question I asked was: are clothes are music connected?

As you can see from the chart below, people agree that there is definately a connection between the two.

So having established that fashion and music hold some kind of relationship, I created a more visual question to find out if people associate the same type of clothing with a particular genre of music.

Using four images of different items of clothing I posed the question: Which of the following items do you associate with rave music?

69% of people said that they associated neon clothing with rave music.

It may be a bit of a sweeping generalisation that everybody who likes rave music wears neon clothing, as this is probably not the case. Yet many people who like indie music tend to all wear a similar type of clothing: the same applies to emo and punk music.

Whether all fans of music follow a corresponding fashion is arguable, but the majority opinion is that there is a clear link between the two.