Goths in Hot Weather

Those goths really need some sort of summer wardrobe.

@Lemon

Meh, I roll my eyes at all cultural fads and never did have a connection to any of them. Oh well, if they want to play dress up they can go right ahead.

@Miss C

What the heck is a Didi-Goth?

I don't know... that's a quote from the linked blog. You'll have to ask the author.

"Meh, I roll my eyes at all cultural fads and never did have a connection to any of them." ...He said, wearing sneakers, bluejeans and t-shirt like all those other Westerners... ;-)

@Foreigner1

So are you saying Goths wear heavy black clothing in the sun for comfort?

Wow, it's only been live for 24 hours and already it's reached Kentucky. Hurrah! @Gaulder: a Didi-Goth is UK for a part time or beginner Goth. I suppose they've all become Emos these days or whatever they're called. Thanks for the linky Miss C :)

Any I'm wearing a dress shirt, kakis, and shoes from Ingeborg. Yeah, not very original but it's work clothing, can’t prance around naked ya know. If I wore the same thing at a goth club I would expect them to turn their nose up at me and call me a conformist and inform me on what I should be wearing. I've heard my friend talk about his days at clubs like those where he and his group would point out those not wearing the "correct attire".

*eye roll*

@GIHW

Ahh, cool. Thanks for the info.

Suuuure Gauldar! I myself am a Punk- I go clad in heavily spiked graffitied black leather and old military attire- The more layers I wear, the less problems with heat I have... :-D

No- some older folks around where I live still see sneakers, bluejeans and t-shirt als cultural fad that eventually will fade away, just as these Goths will.

Jeans, T-shirts and sneakers have been around so long that they can't be called fads. Not every fashion is a fad.

@Foreigner1

Really? I would have figured you for completly shaved with tatoos all over your body with a dietary habbit of eating nothing but live mice. Hmm, goes to show my judge of character. Ya, I guess it's like people living in hot and arrid desert atmospheres who layer on the black clothing. Most of the money I spend clothing wise probably goes into cool looking T-shirt, I love my shirt that is all black that says "There are 3 Ninjas on this shirt, Try and find them!".

When I was in metal band, once we were talked into playing an outdoor festival show in the day time in the summer here in Arkansas. I was wearing my signature very punk/metal/goth glam, ultra skimpy outfit as usual. What I didn't think about was how long I'd be on stage in the direct sun, and my absolutely victorian pale skin was burned to a crisp. The pain of the sunburn on all but the covered (maybe a foot and half square) area of my body wasn't the worst part,though. It was that I was wearing fishnet stockings and the sunburn left a fishnet sunburn! It looked absolutely ridiculous, even after the red burn healed, the tan left behind was still in the fishnet pattern.

@Mellisa
Ouch! Talk about tan lines. Someone should market tanning stencils for intentional versions of your burn.

@Whitcwa

I'm sure they already have. Probably been doing it for a few years with that spray on tan crap.

I work a Renaissance Festival in the end of summer (August through the beginning of October) and probably wear just as many layers as goths (perhaps more). Honestly, you get used to it. Also, large flowing skirts get a lot of air underneath and can actually be cooler then most pants. My arms are covered by billowy cloth which can sometimes be as cool as not having them covered.

@Melissa

Poor you! well done for braving the heat, and thanjks for the fuishnet image! I'll post that post on my site if I may?

I think they don't like the sun much and favor evenings.

@dutchboy

Yeah, my friend fakes sensitivility to sun light and probably avoid getting a tan.

Every goth I've ever met just strikes me as a sad attention whore. Like a clown, but less scary. Or like a celebrity, with no acting talent.

@Jae

Hey, not so loud about the clowns... They will kill you.

whitcwa: "Jeans, T-shirts and sneakers have been around so long that they can’t be called fads."

To be fair, long, ornate, all-encompassing dresses were in fashion a whole lot longer than minidresses, shorts, or jeans have been. ;)

@Jae- I wonder about that. In German they have the expression "Weltschmerz"- Something like "Worldhurt". Lots of Goths that I know to more or less extent have a Dark version of this- the Emo's most. And they somehow feel that their Goth-attire represents this the best. Attention...? Perhaps some of them yes, but by far not all of them-
Let's put it this way- I am a Punk. Of course I like some of the attention that I get, because because of how I look, I get wonderful contacts with folks I normally never would have any contact with. But definitely not all of it, because I get attacked verbally and physically far more than I like. I don't like fighting. I only want to be like I feel I am and I want to be left more or less alone like I do with all those other freaks (Included the business-suits and Design-clothing addicts and all those others) alike. That has very little to do with being a sad attention whore. ...Okay, perhaps if you want to call folks that stand out in the crowd like that, you should also label the ones that do not stand out something like sad examples of people who dare never to stick with their heads above any crowd. Rest assured that is not what I think, but it would even out things a bit.

@Gauldar- Hey I know that shirt! Last summer some girl even got me searching for that same text she assured me was there if I looked long enough. And you're correct about the tattoo's but wrong about the mice- I like live and screaming virgins for breakfast. ...At least- that is what my overly normal and grey neighbors seem to think...

@Jmanna- Where? I do some occasional Viking-reënactment. :-)

@gothsinhotweather-
Yes, you're free to post it.
I wish I had pics for you. It looked ridiculous.

I assumed Goths didn't mind the heat. I just figured they probably didn't bathe much anyways.

Reminds me of South Park's Goths always ragging on the conformists. Or being given the once-over the one time I went into a leather bar, to make sure I fit in.

Why do non-conformists not see they're merely conforming to something else?

@ted

The same reason people declare their religion as the right one. They feel that their preference is the correct one. Everyone knows the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the one true god. May you be touched by his noodle appendage. rAmen.

@Foreigner1:

I like being an individual as well as the next, but I feel your abilities and aspirations mark that better than pretending to be something you're not. Pretending to be dark and gloomy all the time for a reaction is a pathetic waste of energy. This group tends to exemplify "look at me" more than the most poseur punk.

Well Jae, all the better for you. It is an obsevation of mine that in certain urban environments, you can be more succesful at showing your abilities and aspirations by outward appearance than nything else- The examples of that are countless, with extremes found in the Harajuku phenomenon in Japan, or the label madness found in some European circles (if yo don't wear the correct labels, you're a failure an you don't belong to the group.) I know from my younger relatives who are still in school, that they can have stiff problems with their peers if they don't wear the correct clothing -outward appearance-. I myself can forget about any bright carreer if I only would mark by abilities and aspirations- I also have to look the part to get the promotion. So it goes more than one way. And at that I think the business-suits in a way are not any better than these Goth's. :-)

Hey, I'm oging to be in KY this august. What's the name of the festival so I can find it?

I am a goth and there are still a few of us left , kind of funny how the dead style is dying:P but i have a sense of humour and btw yes it is extremely hot sometimes in a trench coat , i just wear loose shirts and things , the knee high boots and hats and things dont matter so much , also i love the silent alliance between goths and punks , is great ^.^