goths
Eyeliner-heavy music fans
Goths are people who embrace a dark aesthetic in fashion, music, and lifestyle—black clothing, pale makeup, moody music descended from post-punk bands like Bauhaus and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
The subculture emerged in the early 1980s and persists today: The goths gathered at the club every Friday night.
The term can be used dismissively by outsiders or embraced as identity. (Capitalized Goths are the ancient Germanic people.)
Darkest possible hue
- velvetThick-pile textile
- laceOpen-weave ornamental fabric
- corsetBoned waist-shaping undergarment
- leatherTanned animal skin
fishnet · platforms · chokers · silver jewelry · eyeliner · Victorian · boots · studs
Influential modernist design school
- The CureBritish post-punk band
- Joy DivisionInfluential late-70s Manchester group
- post-punkExperimental rock after '77
- darkwaveSomber electronic rock style
Underground superhero base
- occultConcealed from view
- nightclubEvening entertainment venue
- WhitbyNorth Yorkshire coastal town
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
alternative · counterculture · piercings · tattoos · nightlife · cemetery · melancholy · macabre
black
Darkest possible hue
leather · fishnet · platforms · chokers · silver jewelry · eyeliner · Victorian · boots · studs · ankh
Bauhaus
Influential modernist design school
- The CureBritish post-punk band
- Joy DivisionInfluential late-70s Manchester group
- post-punkExperimental rock after '77
darkwave · Rosetta Stone · gloomy · reverb
Batcave
Underground superhero base
underground · alternative · counterculture · piercings · tattoos · nightlife · cemetery · melancholy · macabre · androgyny
- 80sbig hair, mullets, shoulder pads, new wave, synth-pop
- Nonconformistsnonconformist, rebels, rebel, misfits, misfit
- student typesjocks, kindergartners, nerds, first graders, geeks
- subculturespunk, punks, hippie, hippies, emo
- schoolteachers, classrooms, classes, student, grades
- middle schoolerssixth graders, seventh graders, eighth graders, preteens, honor students
gothshippies
Countercultural youth of the sixties
preps · flower children · jocks · surfers · cheerleaders
- gothic horrorAtmospheric fiction of dread
- gothic imageryDark medieval-inspired aesthetics
- gothic literatureDark, eerie prose tradition
- Gothic cathedralMedieval European sacred architecture
- Gothic designOrnate medieval architectural style
- gothic styleShadowy, ornate subcultural aesthetic