Goth subculture
- Goth can also mean a member of a Germanic tribe
A goth is a word usually used to describe a person who listens to gothic music and/or dresses in a goth style clothes. Goths often wear black and unusual jewelry. Both goth men and goth women often wear make-up.
The goth subculture originated in the early 1980s among fans of the first gothic rock group, Bauhaus.
The word goth comes from the word Gothic which actually means gloomy or dark. This meaning of the word comes from gothic fiction, a type of literature popular during the late 18th and early 19th century.
People who call themselves a goth are those who live up the meaning of the name through wearing clothes or putting on makeup that is in colors that represent death, decay, or gloominess, such as the color black, deathly white face makeup, dark bloody red colors, or the tones of the color puce.
Goths wear normal black clothes and mix them with other colors to make a new look.
Goth people are often mistaken to be emo or punk because of the everyday stereotypes.
Goth Subculture Media
A woman dressed in goth style in the 1980s
Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1980
Bauhaus—Live in concert, 3 February 2006
The Cure Live in Singapore - 1st August 2007
Ophelia (1851) by John Everett Millais
A gothic model pictured in June 2008
A poster for the 2007 Drop Dead Festival
