I'm unsure if you've seen the corset t-shirts but what they are is essentially the body of the t-shirt intact with pieces of fabric added either on the front or back with grommets in. Then you lace just like a corset. Some are really wild others are the basic style. Also the old "add a skirt to the bottom of a t-shirt" is still standard. Heck I was doing that in HS (I was born in 72 if it says much) . Depending on what facet of goth you are doing you have a few great choices for clothing. If you do LBG or Lolita Rose and Thorn is amazing. http://www.angelfire.com/ab6/roseandthorn/ If you like cyber goth Lip Service has some nice pieces although I'm not real keen on the method of making them or their lastability. The Gothic Lolita Bible is a must for anyone who studies modern costume or is in the Lolita or FrUiTs movement of clothing. Blue Period hosts scans of the book: http://www.blue-period.fsnet.co.uk/egl.html Goth Fashion Info gives simple circle skirt instruction: http://gothfashion.info/circlepixie.html I like Morbid Outlook's explanation of Japanese Lolita: http://www.morbidoutlook.com/fashion/articles/2002_07_gothiclolita.html Metamorphose Temps des Filles sells great clothes for those into GL: http://www.metamorphose.gr.jp/english/index.html
I have more links of course. If anyone wants them just ask. To my mind if you've made it chances are its wearable art. Its handmade and its OOAK. You aren't going to run into Hot Topic or Kmart and grab it off the rack. B~ On 9/3/05, Lavolta Press <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's pretty easy to put lace-up trimming down the front of a tank top. > BTW, that was a "hippie" style too. It's certainly heavily done in > ready-to-wear for the American "junior" market. In shopping malls and > online catalogs, I've seen a lot of ready-to-wear "decorated" T shirts > and tank tops. They're often quite charming. > > I would guess Goths have to make most of their Goth clothes, although > I've seen Goth clothing for sale on the net. In fact I bought some > skirts that I found out are by a Goth ready-to-wear manufacturer, at > www.artfulwears.com <http://www.artfulwears.com>. > > Something else about "wearable art"--to my mind it has a kind of "wild > and wooly" aspect. It's not a well-made but conservative hand-knitted > sweater. I love hand-knitted sweaters, but I don't think they're all > wearable art. It's not a commercial T-shirt with some lace trim and/or > appliques sewn on. Those can be very cute, but I don't think they're > wearable art either. It's also not ticky-tacky-craftsy, kits-and-kitsch. > > Wearable art may or may not be related to current fashion, but it's > experimental, and "different." That's what makes it art. > > I agree that sewing an embroidered patch on your blue jeans, as many > people did in the late 60s and early 70s, is not wearable art either. > But some people went further, and were more "arty." > > I should add that the modern vintage clothing market, or rather the > modern perception of it, also dates from the "hippie" movement. To the > generation before that, buying used clothing was something you avoided > if possible, for its connotations of not being able to afford new, and > even catching parasites or diseases from the previous owner. The > "hippie" movement siezed on vintage clothing ("reconstructed" or not) as > a way to both find different styles and to benefit the environment by > recycling. > > Fran > Lavolta Press > http://www.lavoltapress.com > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
