eh, i think it's kind of a teenage/early adulthood thing...i'm sure there is a more grown-up way to keep that edge.

20..okay, 40? eh. Grow up.

That second picture is pretty damn hot.

But, really, people need to grow up.  That's so... middle school.

i find it odd, not matter what age.

its simply a style and depending upon who you are or what your doing such as a model or musician or something along those lines or someone who has made a self sustaining lifestyle out of it is free to do as they please we all have the desire to express ourselves.  If its what your passionate about then i say by all means for anyone who knows what it actually is or means in this day and age to be gothic.  I will have more respect for the person who holds true to who they are while doing something with their life than anyone who has ever settled or sold out to become just another miserable 9-5 working pawn.

@zxzeebrastar@xanga - What?

People of 40, and OLDER, came up with EVERY style you take for granted, and NOTHING new has come along in 20 years, and CAN'T.

You, who rips off everything, even if you don't know it, FAIL to have the right to say when anyone else should or shouldn't stop dressing any way. And this goes way, WAY, beyond Goth, which itself was already pretty dull in 1981.

Meh, speaking as someone who used to do the whole goth thing awhile back, it looses it's edge.  I think you can still acheive a classy look and get that goth edge in by buying steampunk or goth inspired pieces, or hell, making them.

I'd rather talk of all this on a wider scale, because there never really was anything called Goth. Goth was generally limited and boring even in the early 80's, and those labelled as Goths back then, such as Robert Smith and Siouxsie Sioux vehemently denied such an association...and any deliberate Goths later on were usually fairly dopey and more constrained than any "normal" people.

What's the point is there hase been NO generational or stylistic shift in over 20 years, and there CAN'T be. There's a lot of awesome looking 'younger' people getting around now, but most are as dumb as dishwater with NO idea that EVERYTHING they are doing, wearing, and listening to goes back at least 25 years. Post-Punk, Hip Hop, Industrial, New Wave, Goth, New Romantic, Hardcore and on and on, back through Punk and often to even earlier.

And anyone who did those styles, any of us, who did it for real, when it counted, can keep on doing it as long as they like !

to each thier own. people can dress the way they want to dress and I love seeing people in thier 40s still dressing Goth.  Like it has already been said, they are the ones that started the trend.

Personally, I like to just incorporate some of the looks into my wadrobe.

Those poor people that you are judging probably invented the "goth" look. They got made fun of for it in school...and now that its "cool" for teens to be goth, you guys want to make fun of them in their old age...sure, go right ahead.

well it's definitely not normal but people should do whatever they feel like. i prefer this look over trampy half-naked housewives anyway. but the world would be pretty bland if there weren't some eccentric people spicing it up every now and again.

I think I'd have a little more faith in people who dress goth in their thirties or forties.
At that age, it pretty much guarantees that they're not mindlessly following some silly trend.

Eccentric, perhaps.