Your Current "Style"

[Drageuth]

I'm not really sure how to word it. Let's just say that everyone can generically fit into one sort of social catagory: gothic, preppy, conservative, punk, et cetera... now, no one is purely one of these - most people are simply more leaning towards one than another. These do not describe how people are, but are only a generic statement to help catagorize people so that we can label them with certain subcultures and et cetera.

So, what is your style? Include pictures if you want. I'm currently going for a more gothic/creepy look. My get-up will be finished by this weekend.




Yeppers.

[Koichi]

Psycho anime fanatic. That's me. I'm moving ever so slowly into the goth genre, however.

[Cyberxion]

Jeez. Um, my style? It's me. That's it. I'm me. I don't dress to conform, I don't act like something to fit into a social clique, I'm just ME. That's my style. Does my style make me popular? No. Being yourself doesn't, contrary to what people will tell you. Speaking your mind isn't attractive, nor is non-conformance. But I'd rather be me, doing my own thing in my own sytle, then trying to fit myself into such as "goth", "punk" or whatever....

And Megami, Goth isn't a genre. That is unless you are talking movies and books, but as we aren't in this case, I thougth I'd clear that up for you. Goth, more then anything, seems to be a way of dress. You ask any Goth what being Goth is about, and you'll get ten different answers from ten different people. They don't know what it's about themselves. So the dress is pretty much the defining characteristic of someone calling themselves Goth, and all the self-loathing and fascination with creatures of the night is all incidental garbage....

[Drageuth]

I agree, but sometimes the mood of some people really does form into these social cliques. I dress up in a gothic way just because it fits my mood at the current time. I also do it because it keeps those without an open mind off my back, and I hate people who don't have an open mind. They're so, oddly enough... narrow-minded!

[ edit ] And Cyberxion, I always thought this was a good explaination for why people become "gothic," in a sense:

"Most goths become goths because they have been spurned by 'normal' society because the way they want to live their lives does not fit in with how most people are told to live theirs. Goths are free thinkers, people who do not accept the moral rules of society because they're told 'This is just how it is' or 'This is what God says!'. Rather goths tend to listen to what you have to say, and make up their own mind. This kind of free thinking and rejection of dogma earns only rejection in todays society.

However because of this rejection from 'normal' society, goths have banded together to associate with other free thinkers. This has a beneficial effect on both the individual and society as a whole. For the individual they have a sense of belonging, and friends they can associate with. For society it removes one more misfit filled with rage from society's streets."

[Cyberxion]

But you dress in what you percieve as being Gothic, because it's what EVERYONE thinks it's what being Goth has got to be about. As I said, noone claiming to be Goth even knows what they are on about, beyond the dress. They all think it's about hating oneself and the conformity life forces on them, being poetic and artistic, and having a fascination with Vampires and shit, when it's really just about a different kind of conformity. Just because they aren't even aware of it, doesn't make it any less so.

Anyway, to each thier own man. If going to Goth route does it for you, then more power to you. I"m just sayinjg, is all....

[Drageuth]

Mreh. I think it's all a matter of what's going on in your psyche. I prefer black because it suits my mood - spikes and all that other stuff is just there because I like the metal, and yes, some of it is because it's the social norm for goth fashion statements.

[Cyberxion]

That I can respect, and understand to an extent.
Being Goth seems to be the only way you can make sence of things in your life, and it's the only way you feel you can fit in and just be yourself, free to think for yourself without the constraints you feel society has put on you.
I just find it silly to call oneself Goth just because it's popular to do so, or for all the wrong reasons. As totally undefined the reasons one would become Goth may be.
That said, if you feel better about yourself by aligning yourself with what you feel is an identifiable group, then that's good. Whatever helps you get through the day can't certainly be bad, and I mean that man, regardless of my personal views on Goths....

EDIT: Keep in mind that these are my views, and mine only. At no time should they be taken as cold facts, but rather as personal observations....

[Drageuth]

Hey, no problem-o. I understand entirely, and actually have my own rather objective views against a lot of cliques, goths included. It's becoming far too mainstream, something people just jump into because it's what's "cool" and "popular" instead of actually wanting and enjoying dressing like that.

[Cyberxion]

Originally posted by Karma
Hey, no problem-o. I understand entirely, and actually have my own rather objective views against a lot of cliques, goths included. It's becoming far too mainstream, something people just jump into because it's what's "cool" and "popular" instead of actually wanting and enjoying dressing like that.

Heh, that's pretty much what I was trying to say in a nutshell.

[NaturalMystic]

Well, good convo so far lol
my best friend...well he would know better about being a 'goth' or whatever. He went through his 'gothic' stage at one point...and because i was closed minded, i didn't hang out with him anymore because of what i thought about goths...but now he has moved on from that stage and does realize that he doesn't need to dress gothic for any reason...that he can still be the same person with the same thoughts without the clothes...im not too sure, ill have to ask him one day...
as for me, well i am myself i guess, i dress the way i wanna dress...

[Evil Ryu]

Much like Cyber, I am myself I guess I dress normally I don't really follow anyone's style, I just wear what I think looks alright on me. So yeah... Here's me...

[DudeCuda]

yeah, pretty much myself. though i prefer to look any way that makes me feared. not only clothes, but opretty much every aspect of my look. and really that does really reflect my mood as of late too.....

[artist088]

im one of the people that dress normal also. but this is partly b/c my school has uniforms . at home im usually wearing jeans and a t-shirt or undershirt. right now im wearing jeans and a hoodie.

[KnightofNachos]

Erm, it's really hard to say for me. I dress all sorts of ways. I dress preppy, punky, casually, and if I'm feeling like it I wear a suit and tie on some days. Oh, and on other days I wear my cape. Oh, and my hair is usually a random combination of colors. Sadly that variation of hair color is for some reason deemed "rebellious" and I get clumped together with the conformity thing again. I have blue, yellow, and green in my hair at the moment, but I'm not proving anything or for some reason displaying a series of beliefs based on hair color.

[Fett aka hmm]

I agree with you Karma, and Cyber 100%. I consider myself to fit into no category at all, I am myself. But people seem to to put me in the "goth" category, so whatever. I dress in black, wear spikes, would have died hair but school wouldnt allow, sucks.

What would you consider that?

And artist088, I feel your pain, it sucks so much to have uniforms.

EDIT: Karma isnt your signature from Left Behind by Slipknot?