Where does your "look" come from?

[wormsinwombs]

crack whores

[phee]

crack whores

That is so sheik these days....

[synthier]

er, it just sort of happens. i suppose it's inspired by:

kelly bundy (hell yeah!)

audrey hepburn/grace kelly

tribal dancers, the equestrian look, and the girls in 80s metal videos.

...which makes it sound like i don't know how to dress myself.

[Simon Bar Sinister]

today's look is entirely from the K Mart line.

[the_fairy_gothmother]

I think of myself as almost utopian when considering dark fashions. If I could totally pull off the true 80s punk/goth fashions of hair, makeup and clothing from Britains scene I would probably have made that my look but with fine thin hair, a large chunky body and whatnot I did not want to pull off a complete look unless I could do it properly. I am absolutely fascinated to this day with that style. I take little bits of everything however and try it on and mix and match. As of lately sigh... Yes I have been doing the cyber goth or graver thing but its been fun. I have here a chart you may have seen. Thing is for me I could probably say I am part of every single one of those creatures sadly even the emo who maybe its not my place to judge (i try being non judgmental tho I know its human nature) but should not really be on this chart but oh well from the outside they will always get thrown into our mix due to the hair, piercings and dark clothing. Oh and the baby bat I am no baby bat for sure. The thing is I just like having fun with my look. On 4th of july during fireworks I walked through my town in all my cyber gear with my parents and their friends. Funnily enough though my parents thinks I am a freak some dude was like happy Halloween sarcastically and my mom was like MERRY CHRISTMAS back to him. More often than not I get more people asking to take my picture or pose with me. The attention is to be expected because alot other outsiders/norms/ whatever non goth people when they think of goth they think of vampire goth or mopey goth and the baby bats that hang around the malls at hot topic. Popular culture has even depicted us as that. So when they all see cyber goth they are like WHAT THE HECK IS THAT!!!!! Which in a way I like it though I am not out for attention it is great to see the expressions of passerby wondering what I am. In Germany however I would not get the same because many of their cyber goths and rivet heads do go out in the open daily. Here however popular culture has not yet really discovered the cyber goth which is maybe another reason why I like doing it. Yes in our world its exploded into a huge trend but its as of yet to hit mainstream unlike many of our gothic predecessors who we see stereotyped and made fun of or portrayed in media. Trad Goth well thats a look I will always admire though never fully be able to pull off. Romntic goth kind of melds into vampire, victorian and medevil goth. All having a thing for period dress and drapey sleeves and long black hair. Fetish goth hehe well of course I got my kinky side and thats only a look reserved to the bedroom. The hippy goth I have some bohemian pieces in my wardrobe but that and my chill attitude in life is about as hippy as I get because I like to bathe, shave and there will be no flower power happening in my life. The j-goth. I find the lolita style very cute and when I have the money I will indeed play with this style. As for the rest there are some elements of them that make up my complex gothic DNA. Metal head oh yeah I was christened into my lifestyle with metal and will forever be faithful to the loud, head banging,black leather clad long haired, heros of my childhood they may not really be considered goth but nothing feels more home that being at a metal festival or concert with the thundering drums pounding so loud they create extra heartbeats in my chest and the vocal frenzies and guitar shredding that is eargasmic and erotic and insane. LOL. Steam punk is piquing my curiosity for sure. I do have some goggles which are steam punk fitted with cyber goth lenses. I loved alot of anime with steam punk themes like Hiyo Miyazakis films think spirited away and howls moving castle. When I traveled to England years ago I seen the early stages of steam punk blossoming and it really can be its own thing or ad a gothic flavor to it. Goths embrace it because its classy and theres the antiquity about it. Our love for the older things strange and most wonderful embody steam punk. It goes well with victorian goth since the fashions are similar and from the same time period.

Anyways I been rambling on here. I think I tired myself out and will actually go to sleep.

[scyko_kitty]

My look is all me, it started when my (extended faimly) Brother was killed 9 years ago... after he died I changed and now I am what I am, I do steal Ideas from Visual Kei once in a while

[torn asunder]

you know what struck me as i was reading thru this thread? a sticker i have that says:

"you non-conformists are all alike!"

[Tyger]

you know what struck me as i was reading thru this thread? a sticker i have that says:

"you non-conformists are all alike!"

[phee]

I am not popular enough to be different....

[Joey Deadcat]

I'm too different to be popular.

[phee]

I am a loner... like everyone I hang out with.

[synthier]

I am a loner... like everyone I hang out with.

[FarrIL]

I couldnt pick just ONE subculture, I had to pick and choose which parts would go together well.

Platforms from Rivetheads and Cyber Goths.

Black and neon colours (because they just go well together).

Somewhere in there, my love for Black/Hot Pink came out and it's one of my favourite combinations.

Goggles.... Cyber goths.

I blame Scene Kids and Hot Topic for bringing back skinny denim. BUT, they tuck into my boots oh so well.

There is no ONE thing that my style/look originates from. Odd.

[candyman]

I have a new look that is totally my own...just kidding I wear what the Army tells me to wear now. Wow it is weird being on here...

[Raev]

I'm too different to be popular.

Please, you and I both know better.

[KatRN05]

My look is whatever I feel like putting on. I don't have a specific "look".

[EAF (1)]

My look depends on the day...What's clean and what's functional and what's an ok looking combination that I can make thereof. But what posses me to buy such fashions in the first place is about what catches my eye, the price it is, and how it looks on me. I just like what I like and sometimes I dress like a total moron because of it.

[Destroit]

I look like what the City of Chernobyl would appear as if all the radiation its covered in powered the place with life enough to uproot itself and walk into CC.

No, I'm fucking around, so srsly not that badass...

I look like what the City of Chernobyl would appear as if all the radiation its covered in powered the place with life enough to uproot itself and walk into CC.

No, I'm fucking around, so srsly not that badass...

[Destroit]

I think what I enjoy about the goth/rivethead culture THE MOST is the fact that threads such as this or discussions that goths get into about fashion leads to everyone saying the same thing..."my look is all me, I mix everything!" yet somehow you go to CC to see all of these goths and they all look the goddamn same. Dreadfalls, vinyl, big boots, short skirts, lots of make-up.

So I will go out on a limb here to be the first original rivethead out there by saying that I derive all of my style from other cyber-industrial lolita rivetheads, and for that, I am now completely original because I look like the rest of you all.

Damnit...now that I'm the only one who is original...everyone else is going to copy my style that everyone else has already been wearing for years and say that they came up with it .

I think what I enjoy about the goth/rivethead culture THE MOST is the fact that threads such as this or discussions that goths get into about fashion leads to everyone saying the same thing..."my look is all me, I mix everything!" yet somehow you go to CC to see all of these goths and they all look the goddamn same. Dreadfalls, vinyl, big boots, short skirts, lots of make-up.

So I will go out on a limb here to be the first original rivethead out there by saying that I derive all of my style from other cyber-industrial lolita rivetheads, and for that, I am now completely original because I look like the rest of you all.

Damnit...now that I'm the only one who is original...everyone else is going to copy my style that everyone else has already been wearing for years and say that they came up with it .

[Scar My Machine]

My "look" comes from my parental DNA, call it nature if you will. My clothing/dress style are simply a combination of mood/impulse/cost and things that catch my eye.

[bane Raziel]

i personal go with the 'just raised look' lots of tatters and bad stitching. if i look like an extra in a zombie flick... its been a good day

[Raev]

I think what I enjoy about the goth/rivethead culture THE MOST is the fact that threads such as this or discussions that goths get into about fashion leads to everyone saying the same thing..."my look is all me, I mix everything!" yet somehow you go to CC to see all of these goths and they all look the goddamn same. Dreadfalls, vinyl, big boots, short skirts, lots of make-up.

So I will go out on a limb here to be the first original rivethead out there by saying that I derive all of my style from other cyber-industrial lolita rivetheads, and for that, I am now completely original because I look like the rest of you all.

Damnit...now that I'm the only one who is original...everyone else is going to copy my style that everyone else has already been wearing for years and say that they came up with it .

*cackle*

[victoriavengeance (1)]

the hair is generally derived from pin up mixed with edgy colors. choppy short layers for volume. etc.

clothes span anywhere from super preppy to contrast the dark eye makeup and hair, and a lot of eighties. leggings. band tees. big hair. when I go out, like necto or city club, it's heavily electro skanky influenced. bright colors, nipple tape, short skirts, ripped up clothing and tights, big hair.

my every day look is pretty much skinny jeans and a hollister tank top, backcombed poofed pin-up hair with flowers in it.

converse.

pretty lowkey, sometimes hooker boots. little brit mod here and there.

I like to call my look the recovering scene kid.

[JJ_Spade]

I blame the 80's for my style as far as fishnet tops go. The crazy contacts I'm going to say manson and twiztid.

[Epic_Fail_Guy]

I don't know where my "style" came from. I just picked out shit that I thought looked pretty nifty and would like to have in my wardrobe. I don't dress the same everyday, but If I wind up looking like a specific subculture, or completely unique, either way doesn't matter, I wear what I want to wear. I'm really not bothered if I look like a stereotype or not.