Not only are capris evil, they're banned at my office. Skirts or long pants. I'm not sure guys have the option of skirts, though I'd like to see someone try the kilt thing.

I am very sorry that Goth, as an aesthetic, was absolutely nowhere on my horizon when I was a teenager. I mean, there were a couple of girls at my (all-girl, uniform-wearing) school who, in retrospect, were Goths - but that was the flavour of Goth involving having hair like Robert Smith, and listening to The Cure. And whilst I'm perfectly well disposed to The Cure, it's the whole reading-Vampire-lit/Gothic-novels, wearing-antiquated-styles-of-clothing, having-picnics-in-graveyards, liking-poetry-and-Victorian-follies side of things I was (am) far more fond of. Also, the whole notion of Goth Clubs having an approach to music and dancing that involves being swoopy and fabulous on one's own strikes me as pure brilliance.

sighs

But I am evidently not a Goth. I think I may be Goth-adjacent, and in some other universe I would totally have been a Goth - but there's another other universe where I'd totally have been doing SCA things.

...er, both of these universes seem to involve me having an American accent, though.

After seeing Jilli's first video , my mom asked me if I was goth. I certainly don't dress goth, but I would say there are bits and pieces of goth in my life. tendencies/ leanings. And one of the early dates DH and I had , was in a cemetery on Chales Ives' grave. What I know I'm not is preppy -- even though I have clothes in that category. ( I was born minutes from LLBean). As far as clothing, practical first. Simple lines, and if the occasion warrants - big jewellery, shoes of note, of fabrics of interest.

I seem to have finally settled into the Rockstar look, which seduces items from Goth and Punk, promises them pretty things, and then makes off in the middle of the night on the motorcycle.

And it works very, very well for you.

I am of the utterly lazy goth tendency. If it takes more than 10 minutes to get dressed and made up, i don't do it aside from very special occasions (like, er prom, which took 15 whole minutes just to do the hair!). In my goth-heyday the clubbing attire and makeup was a 20 minute affair, including tooth-brushing and corset lacing. I was quite proud of meself.

Now i just toss on a tshirt and comfy pants most days and call it done. Don't even bother with makeup. The downside of a job with zero wardrobe requirements and no f2f interaction with the public (i.e. potentially hot strangers) is that i entirely stopped trying.

Yeah, but you'd look good in a potato sack.

See, my problem is I WANT to be goth, but other than occasional fun dress up with corsets, my daily wardrobe and things I want to buy and wear and feel pretty and looking sharp in is...J Crew style preppy. More old-school than when they get too trendy, but...I start looking at the plaids and the colors and the twee prints on wellies and go "ooh! why aren't I a bit taller and thinner so this would look better on me? And and, oooh! KNEE SOCKS!"

The most me I ever felt in many ways was at the RITA awards two years ago. Pity I don't have a life where I can walk red carpets every couple of weeks or so. (Like, for a real reason, not a Paris Hilton sort of reason.) Which, of course, is odd seeing as in my everyday life I'm very comfortable in my sweats and t's.

Aims, if you wander through here, any interest in this book?

Ooooh!! Am I ever!! THat looks awesome.

Eep! The website says my copy of Gothic Charm School is out for delivery! Soon it will be mine.