Goth Essentials | Make Yourself Up Ghoulishly

Hello again! Just as a cheeky aside, if you didn't already know I have a YouTube account! I've not been on for a while due to illness but I'm planning on becoming more active again. Absolutely on idea how to work it anymore like.

SO, today's lesson is for Goth 'essentials', which you absolutely cannot exist without. Honest. Whether you're new at this or a seasoned professional, this might prove somewhat useful along with the other ten zillion articles that concern this on the interwebs 

Black clothes are an easy start. It's how I started; it's one of the quickest, cheapest and easiest ways to make a statement stylistically. In addition, it doesn't take much effort (*ﾉ∀`*)


For example, this is pretty much exactly what I'm wearing today:

praise be to Polyvore

Everything that I'm wearing today, except for the Docs, were thrifted. I made the black velvet choker in accordance with this tutorial! The fishnet gloves were a lucky find on account of it being Hallowe'en season ٩(♡ε♡)۶

Now, I know this outfit is simple. I know this won't make you look like a Vampiric BDSM queen (or king), but what it does do it work. My go-to outfit will forever be an oversized bat-wing jumper, black bodycon skirt and my precious Doc Marten's (a wise investment for even the thriftiest of Goths).  

Tights are a boon in the world of Goth (and those of us who live in fucking COLD climates). They can be worn plain on their own or 'layered'. The art of layering is entirely dependent on how much you can bear to deliberately rip and put holes in your tights. Oftentimes, when I ladder a pair of tights they will go in my 'pile of tights I will rip to shreds, wear once again and then throw them'. As an aside, is there nothing more painful than getting a hole in a brand new pair of fishnets?! A trend which I've observed in the Death-Rock side of our beautiful style is layering hugely ripped and tattered tights over tights with slightly more controlled rips and holes. To put controlled holes in your tights, you can use a seam ripper or a lit cigarette. Sadly, cigarettes are the most effective option as they cauterise the hole, making the tights less likely to ladder; this can also be achieved by using a small coat of clear nail varnish around holes made with a seam ripper.

Anyway, that's all for now! Byeee

Life Lessons|Sewing for the Otherwise Unequipped Goth

When I was perhaps fourteen or fifteen-years-old, I attended a physics lesson I still carry with me to this day. Our tutor was a highly intelligent and witty man from Liverpool, and was teaching us what was basically a side-comment on engineering.

He delivered an anecdote from his infancy; a fuse had blown in a plug at home and he was the only male of the house. Lacking any means of information on how to change a fuse, he opened the plug up and had a look at it.

That was the lesson he taught us which I have held so close ever since: if you are completely clueless as to how something works, pull it apart and put it back together again.

That, and 'brown = live' followig a similar anecdote concerning a tramp's worm infested diarrhoea.

You will need:

• Seam-ripper
• Scissors 
• an old/thrifted item of clothing you wish to replicate

With this in mind, how does this relate for beginner's sewing? If you don't know how to draft a pattern for something  you desperately want a pattern for, take apart a similar item of clothing (typically a thrifted/charity shop item), lay the pieces together as you take them apart - whilst numbering them with chalk, ideally - and before you do anything else, record the pieces, order and measurements of each piece. This is to ensure that if any pieces do get mixed up, you will easily be able to soon fix the mistake.

*note: you will want to keep the appearance of the garment unchanged, as to avoid both ruining the garment and losing out on a pattern

The case may be that you find an item of clothing which is nearly wonderful, but the colour is significantly faded; or you find a perfect thing with fabric so old it is threadbare. To replicate, or even base, a pattern on said items could be ideal.

The world is, proverbially, your oyster in the case of carefully destroying clothing!

Here's an article which some may be familiar with already from Antimony and Lace, explaining this point more succinctly than I ever could! Really, I'm just reinforcing the idea P: not pilfering!

Helloooo

First post, woop woop. 

This blog name is entirely ironic, feel free to escape now if necessary. 

Tutorials to come soon, exciting.