This is the blog of a historian named Charlotte (she/it/they), known across the Internet as PhD, DSc, MD, PT Discworld. Officially a PhD! (also received a Professor of Thaumology from Unseen University, Ankh Morpork). She has interests in goth music, science, academia, Doctor Who, Discworld, and various other topics. Trans as fuck. GNU Terry Pratchett
The biggest pet peeve of mine are “goths” who excuse their shein amazon aliexpress hot topic hauls with “my thrifts only have granny clothes” as an excuse to why they can’t thrift. 100% of the time, it’s people who go to thrift shops and expect to find hot topic and killstar and overlook the 80s black clothing that looks shapeless or outdated when unstyled. All you have to do is add a belt, some pins, and maybe a chain, maybe distress it, and it will look 100 times better than the ugly ass shein clothing you are already buying. The visual parts of goth are built on those common 80s basics that you can find literally everywhere styled in unconventional ways. Granny thrift stores are the actual goldmines for dirt cheap goth clothing . You are just uncreative and lazy and refuse to put effort into your looks
here are some ideas and general advice! this post is specifically gonna prioritize cheap/DIY stuff as its the easiest for beginners and i like saving money. i will link some shops but its never necessary to buy from designated “goth brands” to be goth.
i will also try to cover a broad range of styles but i stick to a lot of 80s inspired & deathrock type stuff so it may lean toward that.
AND !!! if you have anything to add feel free to reblog!! there are definitely things ive missed and like i said i tend to lean towards specific styles so if you have a different perspective please share!
before we get into it properly, heres some art i made to better show some of the things i’ll mention as well as to provide a bit of inspiration :D
