Pastel Goth – The Softer Gothic Trend

The Gothic culture does continue to diversify with the Emo crowd and the pastel Goths emerging from the Goth subculture.

The pastel Goths don’t deny their homage to the original Goth subculture. They just feel the need to add a little color added to the mix.

The new trend of hair chalking has many Goth’s thirsty for a splash of color. The outrageous color fashions of both clothes and hair have many Goths converting.

In terms of the pants and bottoms the Goth chic seem to be wearing a lot of black skinny jeans or jeggings offering them protection from the cold and hiding the skin tone of their legs.

The Gothic chic most often don't expose their legs yet opt to cover them with a black garment worn under dresses, tees and jackets.

There are an outrageous assortment of Goth pants for the male Gothics. Simply follow the leggings link to Amazon to check out the Goth jeans and pants for men. Just type Goth into the search bar and watch the assorted variety of the many Gothic clothing and accessories options that show up. It's a great assortment. There you will see a tab for pants scowl down to it and check out the wild variety of pants for guys.

Those of the Gothic set continue to dress in a number of different and original fashions.

The dress of a Goth includes any death rock styles, the punk fashions and anything Victorian or a mix and match of all those mentioned.

To the right you see a very popular Lolita dress added to the Gothic fashion collection now being categorized in the Gothic closet.

The added color of a white white Peter Pan type collar was once a big no no in the Goth world and yet now is common place.

While shopping for Goth clothes you will see many of these types of dresses.

While the clothing images displayed are worn with cute bobby socks and Mary Janes this is not how most Goths would wear a dress like either of the two shown here to your right.

They might pair this dress with black ieggings and a goth pair of boots like seen below. The jewelry used to accessorize such an ensemble would be traditional Gothic jewelry, belts and the like. This adds to the allure of the Gothic style and irony.

Also the dresses are often worn with the leggings you see above with the tattoo art designs. Very Ed Hardy! This would be a more pastel goth look.

There are some who might wear it as seen in the images but those are a matter of personal choice for a particular event they may be attending.It would be risky to buy any goth's such socks or shoes as they undoubtedly would reject them. 

So it seems the staying power of this subculture is both evolving and impacting society in general.

Today Goths are trending in a splash of color. Some started adding red as it relates to the beliefs of the Gothic  As the color remained others began adding pastels and such perhaps confusing society yet they are still Goth. 

The boots you see here today are typical of what many goths wear. There are those hardcore goths who wear a simpler more militant boot like those worn by the early goths. 

The Gothic boots more commonly found today are unisex. It's not uncommon for dudes to wear the same boot a chic would wear and visa versa. 

These types of boots weren't found in shoe stores, anyone goth would shop military surplus stores to get their hands on a great pair of black combat boots.

This made it all the more thrilling. Imagine a goth walking into a military surplus store to buy combat boots.This reporter knows all to well what a thrill it was to be stared at with mouth gaping and eyes popping, or did I?

The trend caught on and before long it became harder and harder to get your hands on a pair of black military combat boots.

Those who were fortunate enough to get their hands on an original pair of actual authentic military boots held them in high regard as a prized possession.

Some Goth's claim to have appropriated the boots of their one time Goth parents.

This is an even greater honor held in high regard among the Gothic community. It's better than finding a pair of military combat boots in some thrift store somewhere.

To be the second generation of a Gothic blood line is sick, meaning fantastic. The combat boots of your mother or father serve as proof.