/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10580426

You like goth rock - you are goth. No matter how you dress or what other genres you enjoy. Many bands and goths dress pretty normie so clothing is just an optional addition.

There is no single set of rules of what hairstyle you are supposed to have, what to wear or how to do makeup. Trough the time many local scenes had own styles of dressing up evolved that differ from other countries or continents. There are some popular trends but they are just trends. Some of them emerge, other disappear. Like there were years when color was very popular and years when people wear mostly all black. There always were people in the scene who dressed in their own way other then trends with community as well as xeroboys and xero girls copying certain styles to the level some scenes looked like an army of clones. There are elegant vampires as well as punk zombies with cadaver style makeup and clothing torn apart. Cemetary ghosts and top hat undertakers as well as people who only wear turtle neck and jeans and no makeup. We are fat, we are slim, we are average, we are straight, we are gay, we are of different political affiliations etc. Only music as in enjoying goth rock genre is a common denominator that decides if you are goth or not. You don't have to like goth rock only.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0EwiZcfhKI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPw7nlluRdc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFLvtgI1RxA


Well, one can argue that we also have in common a way we dance to the music - as this is very characteristic aproach to dancing - the stranger and odd looking the better and more respect you get. Which is kinda reverse of mainstream club dancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc4PMDP4Ng0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zmZruWQZIM

You dress the way that emerged within fans of the goth music genre or inspired them like the '70s horrors, dark colored punk etc. - if you don't listen to goth at all you are not goth.