Define and contrast

Goth is a word that means alot of things. May envisage it as the black clad, vampire lookalikes. Others see them as Twilight loving teens.

To me goth is neither of these and is all of this. Goth to me is whatever you want it to be. It is not about rules and regulations on dress, hair, music and attitude. Goth is simply a word that encompasses an attitude of alternate. Punks, goths, emo's, skaters, hippies and anyone else that does not follow the Topshop/River Island trend. To me the value of goth is that you can be whoever you want to be.

If you want to wear all black and don a leather floor length jacket then go for it. If you want to wear mismatched florescent patterns, wild shoes and crazy makeup then that's great to. Each is goth in its own way. Each is alternate in its own way. So why is this not a diary of alternate fashion? It is simply because goth, like punk or emo is simply a label to represent something. Alternate means not the norm and with no restrictions. Although that is the ultimate goal, to label it as goth gives an initial structure to the inevitable anarchic style it will become. As I will discuss over the time of the blog, there is more to goth than all black and that goth simply defines an aesthetic, giving it structure to allow everyone else to understand the madness.