#dollskill clothing

[thisisrealy2kok]

Magical Surprises Baby Tee

[votvobvorot]

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

[rosylike]

Sugar Thrillz dresses>>>

[dizziesims]

How we feel about Bratz merch?? 🤔

[jennrypan]

It's unfortunate that everyone hates dollskill but never gives you substitutes >>

Like I'd LOVE a cheaper place with really pretty heels if yall got recommendations 😶 cuz god damn, where am I not looking--

[trinidaddy88]

Sometimes I look at a plus sized model on apparel websites and I'm like yea they look like my size (45 bust 43 waist and 52 hip for 5"6) but no they're just short and their proportions makes them look that way and the largest size clothing in that brand will be too small for me.

[badkatdesigns]

Made 7 fun lil guys for a project I'm working on! Really happy w how they all turned out, I think they all look cute as hell and are very distinctive and fun ✨

[kittenslave4therave]

Part 2 Festival Inspired mood boards using rave and festival brands everyone knows. 🩷☀️🤩

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what is this.. ...

[girlishguitarist]

I always feel so weird when I see companies making mega expensive “punk” and “goth” clothes. I used to know this other person who kept on wanting to get into the goth scene, and another one of my friends literally was so willing to help her and get her started out with like music recs and clothing tips and she’d constantly tell us. “Oh, but dressing goth isn’t accessible for me. I don’t have the money.”

Which y’know makes sense, not everybody has the money to drop on getting goth clothes. Especially when your priorities are literally keeping a roof over your head and paying bills. We’re all from working class families here. But then we just kind of realised she was referring to the shit you’d find on like… Killstar or Dollskill and everything made a lot more sense. It’s been making me think. Ever since alternative subcultures such as goth, such as punk, even grunge tbf have made their way into mainstream fashion trends on the internet it’s made people believe that the only way you’re able to get clothes to “dress the part” is to fork out shite tonnes of money to these ridiculously overpriced online clothing stores. (You don’t even have to dress goth for example to be goth because it’s a music based subculture but that’s a whole other thing.)

The way trends are today with this whole, “aesthetic” thing along with the consumerist HELL that is fast fashion sparks a wave people just buying swathes of overpriced clothing to hop onto a clothing trend that is actually ripped from a subculture they don’t really understand? Like part of the whole core of these subcultures is that we are anti-consumerist and anti-capitalist. You are a fucking joke.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking negatively about people who truly want to get into these subcultures. There is nothing wrong with that at all, of course there isn’t. I’m talking about people who will see a fashion trend and just hop onto it and really have no idea what they’re doing. (This is part of the reason why I believe it’s unlikely we’ll ever have a new subculture as big as previous ones ever again because of just how everything is a trend now.)

Fashion that has been born from these subcultures has always been DIY. Making your own battle jackets, thrifting pieces of clothing and tweaking them to be how you want. Like… I don’t know about you babes but I don’t think goths in the 80’s were getting their clothes from fucking Hot Topic.

The fact that companies are now and have been making ridiculously priced pieces of clothing to capitalise off of: 1.) People who want to hop on trends because they don’t want to make the clothes they just want the style now, and 2.) People who want to genuinely get into subcultures such as punk and goth but may be misguided as to where to get clothing just makes me so fucking mad because it makes getting into the fashion within these subcultures seem inaccessible and consumerist-ridden when they’re absolutely not meant to be.

[thisisrealy2kok]

Happy Happy Graphic Mesh Top

[votvobvorot]

Killstar

[blackbirdswillsing]

On Gothic

a cute helpful guide on the gothic subculture that no one asked for <3

goth music springing from the late 1970s after the post punk movement was a subculture heavily inspired by the themes found in victorian gothic literature

gothic literature:

frankenstein - mary shelley

dracula - bram stoker

jekyll and hyde - robert stevenson

wuthering heights - emily bronte

rebecca - daphne du maurier

edgar allen poe <3

some keywords that come from gothic literature that can help you spot a goth song:

'dark' 'death' 'black' 'cold' 'heaven' 'hell' 'witches 'bats' 'night' 'roses' 'blood' 'church' 'forest' 'jesus' 'grey' 'horror' 'shadow' 'sacrifice' 'tears' 'ghost' 'spells' 'cry' 'love' 'haunted' 'funeral' 'cathedral'

Some other themes in a song that can help you to decide if it goth or not can be:

heavy bass

synth sounds (the song sounds like it was recorded in an empty church)

mysterious and whimsical vocals

deep vocals

lack of a (electric) guitar

The 1980's and 90's were the peak for the gothic subculture, especially in camden market, london, england

Some bands that were prominent at the time were...

Bauhaus

The Cure

Sisters of Mercy

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Christian Death

Clan of Xymox

The Cramps

Depeche Mode

New Order

Joy Division

Alien Sex Fiend

Fields of the Nephilim

Killing Joke

The Damned

Nick Cave

Softcell

Some other goth band recs:

Boy Harsher

Children on Stun

Earth Calling Angela

Molchat Doma

Forever Grey

Horror Vacui

Lebanon Hanover

London After Midnight

Male Tears

The March Violets

The Merry Thoughts

Paradise Lost

Paralysed Age

Plastique Noir

Rendez Vous

Rosetta Stone

Selofan

She Wants Revenge

Skinny Puppy

Specimen

This Cold Night

Tragic Black

Traitrs

Type O Negative

Twin Tribes

ULTRA SUNN

Xmal Deutschland

Your Funeral

The 69 Eyes

Please let me know which ones i've missed because these are just ones that I have taken from my own playlist!

The music is the number one most important part of goth subculture and you don't have to dress goth to be goth... but it sure is fun to do so! Goth fashion holds its roots in thrifting, upcycling and sustainable fashion (buying 'goth' clothes from shein, dollskill and killstar is a big no no).

Anyone can style their gothic outfits however they like but here are some examples of different styles:

Trad(itional) Goth:

Romantic Goth:

Victorian Goth:

The styles can get very similar so let me know if i’ve mixed any up!

I’ve reached the limit on the number of pictures i can add so here are some more examples of goth styles:

Corporate goth

Gothabilly

Mall Goth

Cyber Goth

J-Goth

Baby Bat

Mopey Goth

Vampire Goth

Steam punk

To end the post i'm circling back to gothic literature by listing some films too (which are often based on the books)

Everyone's beloved: Bela Lugosi in the first adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1931

The Crow 1994 which comes with a song from The Cure

Interview with the Vampire 1994

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975

Edward Scissor Hands 1990

The Addams family 1991 (if he's not like gomez then i don't want him)

The Craft 1996

That's all I have for now and if you made it this far thank you so much for reading and have a nice day <3

current goth song on repeat:

[gaskarth]

something so weird about walking by a group of "alt" white ppl in nyc who are wearing overpriced clothes from dollskill and feeling all their heads turn to stare at me / whisper about me when the outfit i'm wearing is just a variation of what i wear every day actually (fave black jeans, band tshirt, scuffed docs, battle jacket). this is feeding into some thoughts i have about something that happened a few weeks ago where a girl approached the group i was out with and she asked me where i bought my battle jacket and i told her the coat itself was gifted to me and i've had it for years but all the patches & pins were ones i've collected over time and sewn on / fastened on myself... she was sort of shocked and said "yeah finding one that's already made is so hard, i saw one like that going for like $200" and it took everything in my heart and soul to not just call her a poser to her face. anyways posers are fucking annoying and have a staring problem like 99% of the time

[heartfullofleeches]

Any good alternatives to Dollskill anyone can recommend? Every fucking time I look for cool novelty backpacks or new clothes their shit pops up and Ik they aren't the greatest brand to buy from

[edensundae]

Lydia Deetz 👻

doing her justice and giving her a design too!!! :3 still working on it tho, not yet set in stone 🫱🏽‍🫲🏼

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she wasn’t goth enough in the musical for me,, I had to give her stronger makeup, IT WAS A MUST!! + hair inspired by the cartoon cuz it’s iconic 😭 but since it’s set in modern day, I wanted to stray away from the trad goth style like in the movie, and make it a bit more colorful & emo inspired!! She 100% buys second hand dollskill & sews her own clothing, crafts her own jewelry etc. IM GETTING SO MANY HEADCANONNSSSSS