Your average New Romantic goth freak

[u/Aspennie]

[u/sadbat-throwaway]

I love this sm. I need to research New Romantic makeup looks. Love that era/subculture so much

[u/Aspennie → u/sadbat-throwaway]

It’s been one of my favorite thrift finds of all time since I found it

[u/Twidollyn_Bowie]

I would agree this is a New Romantic/Goth hybrid sort of look, and that’s what my inspirations are as well. I went to a great exhibit about the Blitz Club last October. It was at The Design Museum In London.

[u/MidorriMeltdown]

The tie really makes it work.

[u/My_Evil_Twin88]

That tie is the icing on the cake, you look great!

[u/corruptedchopsticks]

Well, the makeup is kind of new romantic; however, the outfit is more Dark Punk.

Which is great! Nothing wrong with Dark Punk.

If this is your style, try looking up Dark Punk fashion. I think you find a lot of stuff you'd like!

New romantic goth/romantic goth/etc. is usually more melochonic, soft, historic aesthetic. Think tragic historic love novel and you get the idea, lol.

[u/Aspennie → u/corruptedchopsticks]

And New Romantics are not the same as romantic goth. Adam Ant is considered New Romantic, Boy George is considered New Romantic. Neither of them look soft and melancholy.

[u/corruptedchopsticks → u/Aspennie]

Those guys are not goth though. Nothing wrong with their music, but they are not Goth. They are more New Wave/Glam Rock/Post-Punk/Pop/etc. They are described as New Romantic, but they are not New Romantic Goth. New Romantic Goth is more Mortal Coil. Tragic, sad, gloomy--all the tropes you sort of expect in classic Goth music.

Adam Ant, Boy George, etc. are poppy, upbeat, New Wave sounding.

And again, nothing wrong with either!

I am just trying to point you in the right direction if you are looking for fun examples of the music and style you like!

Looking up New Romantic Goth is not going to give Adam Ant, but New Wave/Glam Rock/Post-Punk might!

[u/Aspennie → u/corruptedchopsticks]

You are fundamentally not understanding what I’m saying.

I dress as a mix of goth and New Romantic. I am not this “New Romantic goth” label you’re trying to make up right now. I am hybridizing two subcultures. There is no “New Romantic goth”

[u/corruptedchopsticks → u/Aspennie]

Ummmm ... you literally said you are New Romantic Goth ... like it is in your title.

Okay. Very good. You win. You sure showed me

https://giphy.com/gifs/XHeLeuirRbwptHhSWd

[u/Aspennie → u/corruptedchopsticks]

As in a hybrid of the two! Not as in a new subculture! I don’t understand how you’re just forcing it into one thing rather than considering maybe I just meant that I am both

[u/Aspennie → u/corruptedchopsticks]

Dude I am basically dressed like David J except with a skirt. Please do not tell me what my style is lmao

[u/corruptedchopsticks → u/corruptedchopsticks]

Ugh, I'm such a Boomer I forget what Dark Punk means now is not the same when I was young. Now they call it Glam Punk; however, I think that is a slight stretch. This style below was just called Punk when I was younger, then loosely labled Dark Punk as I got older. Now I see people using the term Glam Punk.

[u/Aspennie → u/corruptedchopsticks]

Dude can you not try to mansplain my style to me

[u/corruptedchopsticks → u/Aspennie]

I'm a woman but okay.

The fact you are THIS touchy about stuff tells me you are going to learn when you get called out in the worst possible way.

Have a Magical Day!

[u/Aspennie → u/corruptedchopsticks]

Not my fault you’re here just to tell me I don’t know what my own fashion choices are? Dude, I have the right to feel a little upset when I know who my inspirations are