It’s hard to describe accurately without going into a full thesis on the subject but Goth is inherently counter culture, evolving from British Punk culture, it’s about art primarily music and literature and community and being different. It’s about finding beauty in the dark and morbid and occult when most people prefer the light and glamorous.
The fashion specifically is rooted in Victorian British influence and incorporates that same dark romanticism, occult and morbid themes. It’s not just black clothes = goth.
It’s hard to describe accurately without going into a full thesis on the subject but Goth is inherently counter culture, evolving from British Punk culture, it’s about art primarily music and literature and community and being different. It’s about finding beauty in the dark and morbid and occult when most people prefer the light and glamorous.
The fashion specifically is rooted in Victorian British influence and incorporates that same dark romanticism, occult and morbid themes. It’s not just black clothes = goth.