Circa 1997
was my bigest goth year, but the year before was a bit more amateur.

I had convinced a friend of mine to drive from Swansea (where I was at Uni) to Cardiff so I could buy myself a big, frilly, white shirt (interview with a vampire style).
So then came the next big goth night out... The shirt was ready to go, but I took the advice of a few goth ladyfriends of mine. Trousers.
"What do you suggest?" I asked.
"Do you have any leggings?" They replied.
Thinking about it, I had some I used for mountain biking in the winter. So big frilly shirt leading down to black SKINtight leggings over big muscular legs (I mentioned the mountain biking earlier), tucked into black Doc Martin boots as they were the closest I had to Army boots or New Rocks at the time.

Now if this wasn't bad enough, I let the aforementioned goth girls do my makeup.
I was looking for the pale face, sunken eye, vampire/ghost look that was in fashion in goth clubs at the time.
They, for some reason only known to them, gave me the pale, adam ant minus the stripes look with added blusher.
I looked like a 17th century transexual lost in the 80s, but didn't know better.


Now I'm into electro-industrial and know I look cool in my combats, new rocks and t-shirts with UV circuit boards/manga/etc
( Weetobix, Thu 24 Aug 2006, 15:36, Reply)