“STONEWALL MEANS REVOLTING QUEENS…AND DON’T YOU FORGET IT,” Gay & Lesbian Pride Parade, Boston, Massachusetts, June 1984. Photo c/o Men of All Colors Together collection, via @northeastern. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #StonewallMeansFightBack (at Boston, Massachusetts)
The rest of us are fine in whatever the fuck we wear.
I love and adore goth fashion, but honestly if someone who looked like Paris Hilton came up and started talking about The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees and Sisters of Mercy and Virgin Prunes or whatever, and were really into death and dark romanticism and stuff, they’d be as welcome in the subculture as someone wearing $500 worth of Killstar.
You can make a goth outfit with stuff from the thrift store, paint, and fishnets for under $30. That’s what 80s goths did and that sort of DIY needs to come back. My friend knew a goth chick back in the day who used to cut up shirts she found in the dumpster. Even if you have 0 sewing skills there are tutorials out there that will help you. Youtube is full of tutorials. When I was in highschool my outfits came from walmart and goodwill, with one or two items from hot topic when I got birthday money. If anyone needs help making a goth outfit on a budget contact me and I’d be happy to help, but don’t feel like you have to. People who won’t accept you for superficial reasons are elitist pricks that you don’t need in your life.
and consequently, it has been just as commercialized and commodified
fuck capitalism, make your own back patches for the bands you like, draw on your shit with sharpies, cut up black lace thrift store curtains and safety pin them into new stuff, rehome leftover bat decorations after halloween as Stylish Avant Garde Accessories™
$1 eyeliner pencil and one decent pair of boots will get you everywhere you need to go
also never underestimate the stylistic versatility of sticking black electrical tape all over yourself
you can spend a lot of money trying to “look goth” but don’t let anybody make you think you have to
The intellectual picture of the atmosphere of craftsmanship from which the storyteller comes has perhaps never been sketched in such a significant way as by Paul Valéry. “He speaks of the perfect things in nature, flawless pearls, full-bodied, matured wines, truly developed creatures, and calls them ‘the precious product of a long chain of causes similar to one another.’” The accumulation of such causes has its temporal limit only at perfection. “This patient process of Nature,” Valéry continues, “was once imitated by men. Miniatures, ivory carvings, elaborated to the point of greatest perfection, stones that are perfect in polish and engraving, lacquer work or paintings in which a series of thin, transparent layers are placed one on top of the other – all these products of sustained, sacrificing effort are vanishing, and the time is past in which time did not matter. Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated.”
Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller” (via helloalexcl)
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