Goth is a music-based subculture that emerged out of nightclubs such as the F Cluband Batcave in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s, as well as gothic rock, a genre that evolved from British post-punk. The goth subculture is centered around fashion, music festivals, clubs, and organized meetings.

Goth is a music-based subculture that emerged out of nightclubs such as the F Cluband Batcave in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s, as well as gothic rock, a genre that evolved from British post-punk. The goth subculture is centered around fashion, music festivals, clubs, and organized meetings.

Goth icons include several bandleaders: Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Robert Smith of the Cure, Peter Murphy of Bauhaus, Dave Vanian of The Damned; Rozz Williams of Christian Death, Olli Wisdom leader of the band Specimen,[39] and keyboardist Jonathan Melton aka Jonny Slut, who evolved the Batcave style.[40] Nick Cave was dubbed as "the grand lord of gothic lushness".

Fashion

It is stereotyped as eerie, mysterious, complex and exotic. A dark, sometimes morbid fashion and style of dress, typical gothic fashion includes colored black hair and black period-styled clothing. Both male and female goths wear dark eyeliner and dark fingernail polish, most especially black. Styles are often borrowed from punk fashion and—more currently—from the Victorian and Elizabethan periods. It also frequently expresses pagan, occult or other religious imagery. Gothic fashion and styling may also feature silver jewelry and piercings. Ted Polhemus described goth fashion as a "profusion of black velvets, lace, fishnets and leather tinged with scarlet or purple, accessorized with tightly laced corsets, gloves, precarious stilettos and silver jewelry depicting religious or occult themes".

In contrast to the LARP-based Victorian and Elizabethan pomposity of the 2000s, the more Romantic side of 1980s trad-goth—mainly represented by women—was characterized by new wave/post-punk-oriented hairstyles (both long and short, partly shaved and teased) and street-compliant clothing, including black frill blouses, midi dresses or tea-length skirts, and floral lace tights, Dr. Martens, spike heels (pumps), and pointed toe buckle boots (winklepickers), sometimes supplemented with accessories such as bracelets, chokers and bib necklaces. . . . Holy shit, is that a goth girl?

indeed it was. In the snack section of a gas station store. She had the whole Shabang too. Currently she was just holding a plastic water bottle and some chips. She may look intense but she’s actually got sort of a gentle voice, but can totally make her voice sound like a dying crow. ~~wonder what her Spotify playlist is~~. ~~then again she seems more like a pandora gal. Who knows.~~ What’s her name? Well, her name is Queenie. She’s also kind of bold, and easily flattered. So yes, compliments work.

“Hello.”

Her voice cut off your thinking process.

“You alright? You’ve been spacing out for a while now.”