Gothic Fashion

Gothic fashion is a clothing style worn by members of the goth culture a dark, sometimes morbid, eroticized fashion and style of dress.Typical Gothic fashion includes black dyed and crimped hair, bright lips and black clothes.Both male and female goths sometimes wear dark eyeliner and dark fingernails. Styles are often borrowed from the Punk,victorians and Elizabethans.Imagery and paraphernalia are also common.Some haute couture designers, particularly Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, have been associated with the goth aesthetic.

Fashion analysis
Goth fashion can be recognized by its stark black clothing (or hair or makeup).Other distinctives are subject to interpretation.
Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds identifies the usual appearance of
deathly pallor, backcombed or ratted black hair, ruffled Regency shirts,stovepies hats leather garments, spiked dog collars, the ensemble accessorized with religious, magical or jewellery (bone earrings, rosaries, pentacles, ankhs, skulls), typically made from silver
Reynolds also notes "fishnet stockings, blach leather thigh boots, [and] witchy eye make-up. Ted Polhemus
Ted Polhemus described goth fashion as a
profusion of black velvets, lace, fishnets and leather tinged with scarlet or purple, accessorized with tightly laced corsets gloves, precarious stilletos and silver jewelry depicting religious or occult themes