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.
My "beach reading" for my vacay:
The Kite Runner
Oliver Twist
White Teeth
Twelfth Night
Gothic Charm School
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Woohoo!!
Oooh! I've not read
White Teeth,
but I read
On Beauty
a few weeks ago, and it knocked my socks off.
White Teeth is awesome. Better than On Beauty, IMO.