Rant against teenagers no 2: Dressing like me

[Rob Wilson]

Actully tattoo's seem to fall into 2 huge categories and 1 tiny one.
In decending order.

1. Wanting to look cool like their friends, be part of a club/clique (all of whom have copied it off of the pop/movie/wrestling star de jour).
2. Drunk and wake up with it.
3. Actually wanting something for personal reasons.

Hmmm. Does wanting one because it's pretty and yet having lots of friends with tattoos count as 1 or 3?
It's not very personal, I guess

If it's the same as there's and you're doing it because you want to fit in with them - 1.

If it's because it's pretty and you like it regardless of whether others have it - 3.

It's the motivation that makes the difference.

[InnerBrat]

That'll be 3 then

[Sienthal]

I personally think Cities in the Dust to be my favorite Siouxsie song. Anyway, on topic, I think it's something with trying to develop a sort of identity. I've noticed that groups of younger teens tend to change styles often, and the changing seems to drop a bit as they age, until they find one that suits them. Of course, the style of dress tends to have little impact on that choice (At least, I should hope), and the influences should rather depend on the sources from which they find that style that they like at that given time. IE "goths" might dress black to help them fit into a group that suits their interests (Which might be entirely mundane), or dress that way because they enjoy that. However, I think it would be bad if they dressed a certain way only to fit another group of people who dressed a style only because they've seen it and it looks good.

I found my style around my freshman year, and have been enjoying it since. A bit of a victorian style of dress (Black, at that) and a really...odd...personality at time. I also play Lacrosse!

[InnerBrat]

Sienthal, that tract in your sig is the very definition of irony! I love it!

[Sienthal]

Thanks. Unfortunately, my "refined" wit did not come up with the satan rangers part. It is quite nice though .

[EmperorMing]

The thing that really sucks about any "underground" style is when the wannabe's and mainstream sheep get ahold of it. Then it all goes to hell.

Seems to be the case here...

[Beowulf]

Now you see my style... isn't really a style. It's toss on whatever is closest when I wake up. Makes it rather difficult to copy...

[HemlockGrey]

Sienthal, that tract in your sig is the very definition of irony! I love it!

Ah, yes, he has me to thank for that....

[Rob Wilson]

Now you see my style... isn't really a style. It's toss on whatever is closest when I wake up. Makes it rather difficult to copy...

I too am safe from being copied, after all who would want to commit fashion suicide?

[Utsanomiko]

I wear large single-color T-shirts (a couple printed), baggy jeans, and almost always a second shirt (short-sleeved, unbuttoned shirts, but I'll roll the sleeves up on a long-sleved one if it's large enough).

Image is nothing; comfort is everything. (Now why do I have a hankering for Sprite? Damn you, ad slogans!! *shakes fist in the air*)

[Peregrin Toker]

I am one of those teenagers whose style is NOT to have a particular clothing style.

This is especially evident since my musical taste in most cases would dictate me to dress like a Heavy Metal Rocker From The DeadTM.

[jegs2]

This and even more suprficial rant than the last one, but I'm even more annoyed with it.

So I'm going to the theatre, and I'm in my 'smart acceptable going to the theatre garb' - A coweb lace top over a black basque, a long red skirt, fishnets stockings and my black coffin shoes. It's part of my style. I developed it to suit my tastes and image etc.

And out of the aforesaid school trip, about 60% of the girls weer wearing pretty much the exacty same thing - well, a similar top - only cheaper, nastier, over an AA cup bra, and with no regard for how it actually suited individual figures (one was stretched over a pubescent pot belly), and then teamed with, for example, khaki skater trousers.

I now think I understand things said in Darksyde's thread that degneratd into Goth-bashing, and for the sake of all real Goths, (and us MFGs), I would like officially join the 'ick' club for the new trend in teenygoths.

<fume>

When I was in high school, I generally wore jeans and t-shirts (the Op and Spuds Mackenzie shirts were all the rage). About as stylish as I ever got was to wear "painter's pants" and those bright-colored, collared shirts with rolled-up sleeves. But mostly I just stuck to jeans and t-shirts. The girls wore leather miniskirts (the more flirtatious ones), denim skirts or jeans w/blouses. Of course, all of this was in the 80's, so a dude with one earring in the left ear was considered a rebel, while a dude with a mohawk was either too wildly popular to take flack for such a decision, or was a weirdo and an outcast.

[LT.Hit-Man]

understandable when I was a teenager, a bunch of us AV types decided that the duster coats were just so cool, as you actually could care shit in your pockets, and they looked good for High School action adventure, martial arts, or western movie making....

you know how sick we gamers in our thirties are of Teen Goths and Columbiine heads.

Ant that the truth.