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Mindgames
Scar honey, you do know how to make me laugh. "My old age" just doesn't sound right coming from someone born after Watergate.
Yes, people are less visible in style terms than they were back in the 70s/80s, but I don't put it down to 'evolution' of the genres. If that was the case people would be wearing as much stuff in as many places, just with different-shaped pants. In reality people that would've been 24/7 'freaks' in the heyday now wander about all vanilla for most of the week and only break into their style when going out, staying in or walking on stage. I think partly it's because there's more pressure to conform (before anyone says "there was before!" - there wasn't in the time I was young! No-beard-no-jewellery dress codes at work in the 70s? like.. no.). You'll always have a minority that wears the stuff despite the pressure, but kids today are taught to conform from day one so by the time they start expressing a personal theme they've learnt to accept "you don't stand out at work... you don't stand out at school... you....." is the safest way to get your comfy job, comfy house and comfy paycheck. The second issue of course is that goth is expensive to do, compared to the other genres available. Should I get a $10 sweatshirt and be nu-metal or a $300 leather cape?.. hmm... how much is the rent this week?
As to steampunk, I'd like to apologize on behalf of all the crew of Van Helsing for kickstarting a minor graphic-novel subgenre into a worldwide craze, and to mention that since League of Extraordinary Gentlemen took over the idea and ran with it, we're not accepting any liability for a generation of kids who think that the nuclear submarine was a popular means of transport in 1882, or that a man with a clockwork leg can save the universe before breakfast.
'Victorian' means England at the end of the 19th Century. People worked 26 hours a day in the mill, came home to a one-room house shared by two hundred people, ate a bucket of cold gravel, were killed to death by their fathers and then made to sleep on broken glass, all for one farthing per lifetime.
Luxury.
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