In our culture today, or should I say, our “fashion” today, we say that our style is different, but at the end of the day, it’s all the same. That’s go for stereotypes too. People say if you dress a certain way or do certain thing’s that not related and/or reflect your culture, you’re going against it. They might not say it out loud, but they will show it by sugar coating it or they’ll began acting very sophomoric . Either way, they’ll won’t take into your way’s too easily. Certain people are problematical and that’s the reasons we have so many bad opinions about the two topics about talk about; Goth’s and Lolita’s.
ALL IN ALL, they are both “types of fashion ” and over the years, it has been mock by ignorant people and had raised alarm flags for those parents who “mollycoddle” their children. Is it fashion suppose to be a way to describe yourself, besides from art and music? Things that’s Goth related isn’t all about morbid scenes and death, but show beauty in another light. That’s go for Lolita too. It’s a fashion sense that’s admire and popular among Japanese girl’s, but it is also it beginning to be admirer Western people too.
What is Goth? It’s a subculture that is alternative and [1] result of similar energy patterns coming together, kinship being found, and the disassociated once again becoming united. It mainly started between 1970 and 1980 in the United Kingdom from pop, rock and post rock genre. [2] Researcher Maxim W. Furek has called Goth " a celebration of music, dress and attitude all wrapped around Thanatos, the Greek concept of death." The goth subculture has associated tastes in music, aesthetics, and
fashion, whether or not all individuals who share those tastes are in fact members of the goth subculture. With goth fashion, you can add your own special touches’ to it that not even manageable to do with urban Hip Hop cloths. The fashion can contain from a [2] range of
deathrock,
punk,
androgynous,
Victorian, some
Renaissance and
medieval style clothes, or combinations of the above, most often with
black attire,
makeup and hair (but on time to time with a splash of color). And goth subculture had aspire many movies, filmmakers, and actors/ress of our time, Tim Burton, who brought use movies like “Nightmare before Christmas” and others. Goth’s are just average people who just see beauty in a different light then others. That don’t make them evil, associated with paganism, or Satanist, they’re regular people.
What is Lolita? [3] Lolita is a Japanese street fashion inspired primarily by the clothing and general aesthetics of the Rococo and Victorian periods. This fashion movement started in Japan in the 1980's and has evolved greatly since. Nowadays Lolita Fashion has grown to be relatively popular all over the world. Relatively popular for an obscure Japanese street fashion, that is. When most people think and/or hear about Lolita’s , they think about the other definition of it , which is a slang term for a seductive, sexually attractive, or sexually precocious young girl", and that’s statement isn’t fully accurate. Not all women and/or girls who are Lolita’s are not whores, but just like dressing like the women (or men) from the Victorian era or they might dress like those porcelain dolls you would’ve seen in those antique shops.
It’s o.k. to dress the style and follow the trend, just as long you don’t blow it out of perportion and/or do something that give it more bad rumores to the Gothic and Lolita style. Just look on the bright side of dark light and not as a satanic lust.
References
[4]. Lolita (term)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_%28term%29[3]. Lolita Fashion
http://www.lolitafashion.org/what_is_lolita.php[2]. Goth subculture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goth_subculture[1]. Goth craft : the magickal side of dark culture / by Raven Digitalis.
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