A new lesson at Gothic Charm School

[cupcake_goth]

Of Returning To One's Gothy Roots.

As always, a huge round of thank yous go out to the Finishing School of Flail and staxxy for all their help!

Happy Halloween! Go trick-or-treating and promote the new lesson, please!

Comments

[kambriel.livejournal.com]

Very nice ~ I especially enjoyed your use of the word twaddle :)

oh splendid!

[maiaarts.livejournal.com]

that is so fabulous I can hardly stand it!
You are such the goddess of advice!
*bows to the Lady of the Manners*

Mostly unrelated, but might make you laugh:

[arielmeadow.livejournal.com]

http://offbeatbride.com/2008/10/my-halloween-costume

Re: Mostly unrelated, but might make you laugh:

[my-poison-apple.livejournal.com]

Hee! I love it.

Offbeat Bride is my crack.

[icprncs.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to think that some sort of "This is what Eldergoth looks like" resource is becoming necessary. Hm. Perhaps I need a new project...

[javagoth.livejournal.com]

I left my now ex when I was 30. I walked into Lane Bryant a month later to find out they had a clue again and there were all these burnout velvet tops and such. My black little Gothy heart squeed and I started building my first ever really Gothy wardrobe - because many things just weren't made for larger women when I was younger and I didn't really learn to sew.

My wardrobe became decidedly darker and contrasted with dark jewel tones and tended towards a lot of velvet. It's funny in that my wardrobe became more... dressy. Back then I was also still driving an automatic so I started building a collection of rings I would wear daily. No one really said anything to me about it but then one day I was introduced to a new employee in our group as follows: "This is Tammy with the secret life nobody knows about!"

*blink*blink*

I found I was amused and surprised. I adjust my wardrobe depending on where I'm working though it's still goth. I suppose I might be more daring if I were a FT perm employee somewhere again but as a contractor I feel the need to tone it down a bit - depending on where I'm working. I still need to learn to sew and they still don't make much in the way of Victorian wear in my size but I do what I can. I'll admit to being lazy about make-up though... I suppose I compensate when I go out clubbing though.

I've long said that our generation is going to re-define what people expect "old people" to do or wear because I really don't see me suddenly developing a love for polyester floral prints and pastels. Heck - Ambrose is 60 now and he neither looks nor acts like the "old man" he's supposed to be.

[krypt-kitten.livejournal.com]

Very well done!

[euterpe35.livejournal.com]

that's a great article.

besides being supportive and informative, you made me giggle out loud with this:
"Choose garments and accessories because you like them and they’re flattering, instead of choosing them merely because the items in question are Very Gothic Looking."

[brumbjorn.livejournal.com]

Wow.

I don't remember writing you recently. Seriously. This sound like it could have come out of my mouth. Go read the husband's posting in his journal today:

http://selinker.livejournal.com/

He's even commented on it!


You have been mentioned in the post BTW.

Goth on Tuesdays

[lylassandra.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm not dealing with the too-old-for-goth issue, merely the getting-back-into-it, but that was very inspiring nonetheless.