AIBU in thinking of goths?

[TiggyD]

www.newsbiscuit.com/2014/07/21/hot-summer-could-wipe-out-goth-population-experts-warn/

All those poor young lads in black leather trench-coats. All those...er...curvy young ladies in their corsets and chunky boots. No wonder all their hair goes crimpy.

I'm going to put a saucer of snakebite outside the back door tonight. Might help a bit.

[GodDamnBatman]

Naw, the heat's just picking up where the 80's left off.

Most goths I know, are wearing normal clothes and raising kids, just like all the skaters, punks, and kids with funky hair colors. Apparently needing a job took precedence over "being yourself". :)

[ravenAK]

wgw is indeed becoming more family orientated every time GothMummy .

Dh's band are playing in November, so the dc get to see them, which is nice...

[BoulevardOfBrokenSleep]

raven, oddly, those are almost exactly how I had pictured they'd be, I was trying to imagine the offspring of a New Rock boot and a flipflop!

[GothMummy]

Skinny jeans would be horrible in this weather!

Im lucky, its fine to have weird hair/artistic clothes where I work.

[GothMummy]

Oh...now I have to guess which band on the line up is your husband's, Raven!

Does anyone remember DracFest in Whitby, 1997? It was a festival with camping, sooo hot! We all melted!

[ravenAK]

Saturday night, between Hugh Cornwall & the lovely Bad Pollyanna, starts with R... .

I know quite a lot of people who went to Dracfest but I missed it - was living at the other end of the country back then.

There's AltFest coming up if you fancied re-capturing the joys of goffcamping!

[Morloth]

Hah, try being a goth in Sydney in summer.

42 degrees and velvet DO NOT go together.

[McFox]

I remember trailing round a very sunny Whitby on holiday with my family in the early 90s all trussed up in a corset, floor sweeping tasselled black skirt, DMs and a sullen face, thoroughly unimpressed at being in holiday with my family at age 15. The shame! Especially seeing as the place was crawling with older, cooler goths

The tragedy that was that holiday was compounded when my mum dragged us to a barn dance - you can imagine how well I fitted in, how I flounced in protest and just how massive my pout was. The gothic barn dance is now the stuff of family legend

[RJnomore]

I've spent this afternoon trotting round Belfast in abut 26 degree heat with dd1 wearing a turtle neck velvet dress a pair of docs and a leather jacket. I kid you not.

She coped very well, even complained of being chilly once or twice, except for teh eyeliner continually sliding down her face

[Coumarin]

Oh my... Ophelia I think I remember you too!

[SaucyJack]

Ophelia- did you have a sister and sleep in coffin? I remember an article in Just 17/Bliss which was a girl pretending to be a vampire.

[MrsBoldon]

Ah, this is reminding me of the summer I nearly died of heatstroke on several occasions in my velvet jackets, long skirts and thick long very very black hair which of course could NOT be put in a ponytail.

The back of my neck developed a very painful sore patch from all the sweating but this just added to my mournful expression. My arms and fingers were wonderful shades of green from the cheap jewellery and I used to get very angry at the world (and how it just didn't have the capacity to understand someone as tortured and individual as me) if I was refused entry to a shop due to the rat on my shoulder.

Yes, that's right. I couldn't understand why they wouldn't let me take a rat into a shop...where they sold food. The same rat that frequently scratched the fuck out of me as got tangled up in my cape of thick hair. And I bloody reeked of patchouli. It was hard being me. Because I was a complete knob.

[TiggyD]

Coincidence this thread really took off at midnight?

[ScarlettOHorror]

I thought I was goth but my 13yr old dd is hardcore goth. Black hair dye, trenchcoat, top hat etc in this weather. We're going on holiday next week, should be fun.

[ithoughtofitfirst]

My brother's boyfriend is always dressed head to toe in black with bird skull necklaces, doc Martins or those weird like daps with a platform. Also black.

He must get such a sweaty gooch in this weather.

[ebwy]

I just wore black Indian cotton in hot weather and was fine. Sadly I no longer have them so it's purple and black ankle length skirt and a black tshirt today. My kids are currently in their pants or nappy only to keep cool

[Voodoobooboo]

Dracfest 97, my lost youth........ I wonder whatever happened to that young man.......

I seem to remember summer goth being enough indian cotton to empty Madras, round mirrored sunglasses, strange velvet slippers with cross bars and a seismic shift from black to purple eyeliner to mark the change in the seasons. And i definitely had a lace parasol too.

[Ohwhatfuckeryisthis]

Aspire to this

End up like this

[NotYouNaanBread]

Head to toe PVC and summer was GRIM, I tell you.

[sashh]

Am I wrong in thinking some goths have adapted and transform in to steam punks when the weather is too hot?

[0pheliaBalls]

Coumarin no, that wasn't me. I did sleep in a coffin but only for newspaper/magazine shoots!

Saucy what do you think you remember me from? I was on London Tonight, that morning show with Anne and Nick, The Big Breakfast, The Kelly Show (in Northern Ireland), TV am or GMTV or whatever it was called then... Was in lots of magazines etc too, mainly the sorts of ones you get free with Sunday tabloids. Classy My USP in a world bristling with the undead was that I was part of a couple - my (very long time since ex) P was probably even more memorable than I was. We had fangs and everything

GothMummy I KNOW! I think I look/dress like any middle aged mum YET other mothers refer to me as 'the gothy one'. I don't even wear black much anymore! And the sweet little baby goths would no way class me as one of their own. My best friend has a theory that if you were ever a goth, part of you will always remain goth however 'conventional' you become - she calls it OnceA Syndrome as in once a goth, always a goth. I think she may be onto something

[shakethetree]

Tiggy - I've only seen a few of your posts but I had you down as a goth

[Coumarin]

Ophelia I didn't ask that, was another poster. I do think I remember you from a chat show in the early-mid 90's though.

[Coumarin]

The Big Breakfast! That was it. So not quite a chat show but it was a long time ago. I watched every morning.

[MichaelaS]

Really enjoying this thread!! Do you think we could have a mini Mumsnet meet up one Whitby goth weekend? Bet you never thought you'd sink so low in the 90s eh?

I think I'm doing pretty well still, my hair is browny purple (claims to be plum) and my DH still has waist long jet black hair, jet black plaited beard (a la jack sparrow) and desperately claims not to be a goth (remember when that was the biggest giveaway. Apart from the black hair, clothes, eyeliner etc etc of course).

Unfortunately our children have come out blonde. How old so they have to be before I can dye their hair? We live in a very multicultural bit of London and the school keep having "culture days". I know they are supposed to go in wearing various national dress costumes, but goth is a culture too, right? I am very tempted.