INTRODUCTION
After the waning of the punk culture in the 80s, the gothic sub-culture developed in England. From Goth tribes who are from East Germany and who lived around Crimea, the term Gothic has originated. Gothic, however, not necessarily connected with Germany, for forms of art and architecture as well as fashion, across Europe became a generic term.
In developing the Gothic sub-culture as well as the widespread art, architecture, and literature, UK has impacted greatly. In Britain, as a significant literary art form, the gothic romanticism developed.
From Punk, Victorian and Resurgence dressing styles mixed with the contemporary clothing styles, gothic fashion borrows. It entirely gives the impression of a person trying to time out of the traditional sense of social organization and make up an incoherent look.
ELEMENT
Typical of gothic sub-culture and fashion is the use of dark colors, black specifically. European followers of this subculture, both men, and women, to create a Gothic subcultural fashion statement dye their hair black, wear dark or black clothes and paint their nails black.
In Europe specifically in Britain, the fashion industry has adopted this fashion trend and began to promote and sell dresses tailored to fit the gothic subcultural tastes. For gothic clothing samples such as gothic corsets and pirate shirts, colors like black, gray, brown, and deep blue are used.
To compliment and distinguish these dark shades white is freely used. Combining the dark shades with the impression of other brilliant colors like red, green, maroon, beige and yellow a few pieces of gothic clothing were made since no restriction made by designers only to clients from the gothic subculture.
Even non-followers of gothic culture can find this outfit appealing.
Black Frilly Gothic Corset
Influenced by the gothic subcultural movement, black frilly gothic corset fits closely to the body laced with frills lined on top and bottom edges. This gothic corset merged with black colors which follow the gothic subcultural model to give the required resurgence look.
Gothic pirate style
Lived in medieval times on the sea and land are the Pirates who because of indulging in piracy were outlaws. The gothic subcultural folks who want to liberated of the social codes were attracted to the idea of pirate fashion because of this.
In the medieval times, these pirates comfortable to wear in various weather condition of both water and land often wore loose long-sleeved shirts which usually went up to the thighs or waist. This wonderful style usually comes in dark or white shades and around the collar both in front and on the edges of sleeves often have frills.
Vampire Goth fashion
To apply to a genre of literature that merged elements of both horror and romance Gothic Fiction first used way back in the late 18th century. Ranging from the beautiful to the frightful, vampire goths often attempt to look similar to a vampire.
Using makeup to feign blood, black clothing with red patterns, long straight hair, long nails among others are the usual fashion elements..
