Does your style match your music taste?

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I mainly listen to rock and metal, Korn Placebo Opeth etc (yes I’m stuck in a time warp).

I have blonde hair and wear glittery eyeshadow and pink blusher. I don’t own black eyeliner. I mainly wear floral dresses and espadrilles in summer. Fairisle knits and skinny jeans in winter.

I don’t have any piercings apart from an earring in each ear, and no tattoos.

I know it doesn’t matter one bit, but does anyone else have a music identity that doesn’t fit their fashion identity?

I like a wide variety of music and I guess it’s fair to say that I don’t have a particular style. I like all sorts of clothing and colours. I guess I’m a bit of a magpie.

I'm similar to @Funderthighs I used to admire the scary metal/goth look but I've never suited it, I have the sort of face that makes people think 'she's a nice safe person to watch my suitcase while I go to the toilet on the train'.

No. It did when I was younger.

I am also very much into rock and metal and pretty much lived the metal look too for a very long time.
But the style didn't actually suit me at all. I have realised as I got older that the style that suits me best is more 'British Countryside'. I'm not sure how else to describe it..But it's definitely not metal.

And I don't care. I like how I look and I like what I listen to and I find it entertaining that they don't match up.

Yes, I used to be like this. The one in goth clubs who didn’t look goth. Blonde hair & lots of pink.

I like heavy metal and glam rock. My first album was The Slider by TRex. I was born in 1960.

When I was young I was Sloaney and am very cashmere and pearls at heart.

Why should it? Why would I style myself to advertise a certain style of music?

I mainly like screamo and metal, but aside from a lip piercing I got when I was 13 I wear "normal" clothes. Mainly sportswear and summery dresses, along with some slightly "hippy" stuff. I have a few "rock" looking T-shirts, but aside from that, no one would think I'm listening to music that sounds like a rock in a tumble dryer while I'm walking down the street or sitting on the bus, which is funny to think about.

Now I'm in my 30s I tend to stay at the back of gigs with the older crowd and it surprises me that a lot of the younger people dress similar to the emo style that was popular years ago (probably a couple of decades now). Sometimes I seem to be the only person not wearing black!

I listen to 6music a lot and fall into being a stereotypical ‘6music dad’ style wise.

Think shackets, straight leg cut jeans, yellow beanie, greying beard and desert boots.

My problem is that I have very catholic tastes. I like everything from hip hop to Bach.

Clothes-wise, I’m a bit Britpop. Adidas Gazelles, skinny T-shirts, hoodies and mini skirts/shorts. I love a denim pinafore and a sparkly mini dress, too.

I am the woman who wore a deep blue lurex jacket to a Ruts gig. I loved dressing like a glam girl and always thought that was a more punk statement than the ubiquitous bikers leather and drain pipe jeans!

Wouldn't wear anything that's associated with the Northern soul uniform and didn't back in the day.
I'm near 60 and wear Lacoste,Ma.strum,bellstaff casual wear.

Yacht rock and twin sets for me.

My music taste is hard rock/ metal. No tattoos (I love them but very fussy about the thought of what goes on my skin, still working in mid 50's to get the right design and artist), only a single piercing in each ear. But I do wear a lot of black, and at gigs I'm full black eyeliner/shadow, corset and DMs. Equally though I will wear bright colours and the whole Holland Cooper look suits me.

Adidas trainers apparently were de rigour for 'indie' children, and as a large part of the music I listen to is 'indie', that's the bit that is related.

I don't think it's a thing nowadays.

I know plenty of goth looking kids who listen to Tayor swift and the like, and plenty of pink, glittery kids who love metal.

When I was at a Slipknot gig in December there were men and women in skirts and heels, tracksuits, goth and alt gear, jeans and a top and everything in between.

Your taste in music and your taste in clothes and makeup have nothing to do with each other.

Although I have known the odd person who makes their whole personality about how they are so different because they like X music and dress Y way, I'm always embarrassed for them.

My music taste is so wide and varied, and, at times I’m sure, questionable(!) it would be a bit impossible to pinpoint it to one particular genre so as to match my style to that, if that makes sense. Funnily enough I was only talking to my husband about this the other day because I was playing emo throwbacks from the noughties, saying how altho my music taste as a teenager was on the emo-side, my style was more emo-lite; checkered vans, lots of black eyeliner and many ear piercings but I gave the heavy side swept fringe and lip piercings a miss!!

Yeah, I’m into metal and I look and dress like it 🤷‍♀️ 😁