I did the black hair dye too. My hair was naturally light blonde, but darkened with age. So back in grade 5 or 6, I dyed ot a lighter blonde. Then I decided I'd do it black, not for the goth look so much, as to try to get it closer to its natural colour (bleach blonde can only be dyed over with black or red). But, my roots are a dark blonde/light brown (hard to explain), so the black wasn't close. Lucky, my mom's friend is a hair dresser, so I got half of my hair *close* to my natural colour, while the other half has grown out to my actual natural colour. My fiance wants me to dye my hair black again, but I think black and my natural colour both suit me fine.

i am a naive goth right now... lol. i wear a lot of black and i'm putting down emo as poser goth >.< i know it's not a good thing

Luckily you have this thread to read and learn from! Avoid the mistakes of the past and prevent the further villification of the subculture by the young and naive.

Captain Nevarre

You know you guys are right about the crappy quality there. I just got a pair of pants there for the rather steep price of 55 bucks and theres already a decent rip in them after wearing them only ONCE! Even worse its right next to the zipper, great place to rip eh? Safety pin to the rescue!

Well I DO like the style of the clothing there, and some of the T-Shirts are downright hilarious. I shopped there because I thought I looked great in the clothes, not because I wanted to be goth. I am what I am, and as far as I can tell I'm just a dark gamer. I am curious tho if I can relate to you goths, wich is why I am here :]. I really dont want to throw down another $50+ for some pants and have them rip again, so can anyone name a few stores for me where I may find some decent quality/priced dark clothing?

I love my clothes to be covered in chains. I always think of them as the chains of society forever keeping me from being free. (Ive had a lot of unwanted trouble with the law)

Plus they scare old ladies at wal-mart

-Drakarad

I think i was too worried about my friends and family being naive about my new image. I never thought about it for myself. I am much more open now though, i don't disagree with everything.

Personally I prefer to have old ladies compliment me, and say they wish they had the guts to dress that way when they were young. They talk about how all the other girls look the same everywhere they go, and it's so refreshing to have someone interesting to look at.

I like that better than scaring them, personally.

LOL Jenny, I don't think I've ever had an ole lady COMPLIMENT my clothes. They usually snicker and grumble under their breath!

I did have an ole man compliment me and my friends once, which was cool!

Drakarad, you know generally when you have trouble with the law, it's because you're BREAKING laws. I work in law enforcement, and I hear young people all the time with similiar attitudes as yours. If you don't want trouble with the law, just be a good law-abiding citizen and it won't be a problem!

I once had an old woman asking me where I bought my New Rocks from becuse she liked them so much.

I had an old woman tell me she was intrigued my drainpipe Tripp NYC pants and how she found the design of zips going down the legs very interesting. When I explained it was simply to look nice, she was very aprroving indeed!

I went to a high school in a tiny, isolated rural town in Iowa. There were no goths. We had a small group of freaks, who were either gay or Wiccan or what-have-you, but none of them showed any signs of interest in goth music or style.

So, with no real guidance on the matter, I had determined in my mind that "goth" was equivalent to "pagan, Satanic, occultic, etc." I even started using the terms interchangeably in my every day conversation. One day I was surfing KaZaA for some good music and I came across "Evanescence" (!). I thought for sure that they were goth, but their lyrics seemed to evidence that the band-members were Christian. So it was at that point I came to the conclusion that one didn't have to be pagan or occultic to be goth. I dove headlong into the poser goth scene and idolized that stupid band for a year. That was only a little over 5 years ago, maybe. I will never live down that stage in my life.

I didn't have any goth clothes at the time, so I wore regular black jeans, a black t-shirt, and some homemade apparel (necklaces, crucifixes, etc.). When I discovered Hot Topic I bought as much of their crap as I could. Funny enough, my clothing was probably closer to traditional goth styles back when I first tried to get into the scene.

Most likely the funniest thing I ever did as a spookykid in high school was going through our library's computer section and setting all the computers' homepages to this goth website (I got called into the office for that one). I still laugh about that to this day. Fucking awesome.

Woah, someone was a vampire obsessive!!

Even little ol' vampire-lover me doesn't go that insanely far!!

Hey, Evanescence may not be Goth but they're a brilliant band and I certainly worship them and would do anything for them. So I'm an Evanescence whore? It makes me happy.

I agree! I still think Evanescence are a great band, Gothic or not, If anything I think it's worse not liking bands because they are not "goth" than thinking they are and "worshipping" them for it.

Frankly, I'm rather tired of the posts in this thread that consist of nothing but arguing over whether liking a particular band makes you "naive" or not.

I think the topic has been utterly played out, honestly. Closed.