![]() ![]() ![]() I've often wondered how they could actually afford clothes that are easily 25,000 yen apiece. ![]() You know how sometimes in the Gothic & Lolita Bible they indicate what the person's job is, aside from the brand of their clothes, and a lot of those people listed themselves as 'members of the society' (positive scripting for NEET, but I'm just a bitter old person grumping)? Those who are neither students nor part-time workers. In the ten years since the trend began it has expanded to a number of cities including Tokyo and now boasts many thousands of devotees who dedicate their lives to creating ever more flamboyant and bizarre variations on the Gothic theme. The origin of the movement was in Osaka in the mid 1990s when young teenagers adopted Gothic fashion in response to the clothes worn and promoted by Japanese Gothic rock bands. The majority of girls in the scene are teenagers and most usually stop dressing and behaving this way by the age of eighteen. The psychological characteristics of the average Japanese Goth is one of introversion and exclusivity. Influenced by Western fashion trends from the mid 1980s, young teenagers, predominately adolescent girls, congregate in the urban centres of Harajuku, Akihabara and a number of underground clubs in and around Tokyo, dressed head-to-toe in gothic costumes and late-Victorian dress. Gothic & Lolita charts the trend of Gothic street fashion that has swept Japan over the last decade. ![]()
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