reality itself is too twisted 👁️🌈🌴
Vivienne Westwood: AW 1990 Portrait Collection Boulle Print Silver Foil Crushed Velvet Bodysuit.
Dahlia, 18
Heidi, 19
Dahlia, 18: “My entire look is thrifted/upcycled. I have been heavily inspired by 1920s women’s fashion lately and by Natalie Portman’s character Mathilda in Léon: The Professional.
Heidi, 19: “I'm wearing Mexican cowboy boots, Dior luster denim, If Six Was Nine tank top, and 14th Addiction leather jacket. I am def inspired by 90s and early 2000s Berlin youth fashion, as seen in the film Christiane F, and Hedi Slimane’s photography ‘Berlin’.”
May 13, 2023 ∙ SoHo
[ID/ four photos of the side of the shoulder of a worn black leather jacket decorated with different abstract silver chainmail like ornaments. The first one resembles dragon scales, the second one is a smaller patch of dragon scales with six dangling from the bottom, the third resembles a snowflake with three teardrops dangling, and the last one is a chainmail inverted spearhead shape with four dangling points in the middle and more bordering the point of the spearhead shape. /End ID]
item: safety pin wings
total cost: ~$4
time: <1 hr
Goth DIY
It has become apparent that the gothy DIY knowledge of years past has not fluttered out to many folks. Here, let me give you some quick suggestions:
- The Tights Thing: Get a pair of tights. (Which can often be found at dollar stores and thrift stores!) Cut out the crotch, and cut off the feet or make holes for your thumbs and fingers. Ta-da! A shirt!
Things To Do To Any Garment:
- Safety pins: Get lots of safety pins (which can also be found at dollar stores), and use them to make designs on an item of clothing. (I've added safety pins in a line down seams on jackets.)
- Paint pens: Draw on your clothes! Write song lyrics or quotes! (This also works with bleach pens.)
- Appliques: You can sew or use safety pins to attach damn near anything you cut apart from another garment, a patch, or pieces of other fabric to something else.
- Change the buttons. You can buy all sorts of interesting buttons from fabric stores, Amazon, eBay, Ali-Express ... you get the idea. Change the plain buttons on a shirt or jacket to interesting ones!
- Add trim: Lace, ribbons, fringe, grommet tape ... hell, you can even sew chain onto things.
And finally, here's the Gothic Charm School post on Gothy DIY essentials! Go forth and alter your clothes!
Because the "goth is bougie" discourse nonsense made me realize I should reblog this ...
Noelle, ???, Jo Nutter and me (bottom right) at the Gothique independent fashion show modeling for a local EGL designer whose name I have forgotten, Seattle 2003
