Halloween Costumes

[Lychee]

I feel like dressing goth is just fun to do, not even on halloween! (Short ramble discussion in a spoiler!)

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I have never made the connection between appropriating culture to appropriating EMO culture... or even thought of goth stuff like that either! Isn't emo a fashion and music subculture, rather than anything of national significance or used by minority groups? I mean, its primary icons seem to be mostly white and middle class. I feel like it's not something you need to think carefully about before doing- if real emos get upset, well, they are literally already upset! That's part of the deal, isnt it? They'll just call you "posers" and skulk away. I think its dumb when people gatekeep western fashions or subcultures of music.
The closest thing I experience to that is the lolita fashion style community, continuously trying to say to people "it's a fashion choice, not a costume! Im not dressed AS anyone, or for any event- this is just what I like to wear!" And in that case, it's not quite appropriation to wear lolita as a costume, it just makes the lolitas think you're trash and you don't understand, or you're a noob who doesnt get it.

I went to two halloween things so far!
A goth nightclub called COVEN which had a halloween theme this month, so I dressed up as a dark fey (maleficents most recent movie, anyone?) With light up wings and skirt and led earrings and glowsticks. Basically I was a huge blinkin beacon, making my way through the swathes of goths like some oversized purple plane with lights on its wingtips.

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And then the next day I went to a lolita tea party and then a medieval & rogues masked ball, dressed as a lolita interpretation of captain barbossa. YARRR
It was great at the masked ball, nobody recognized me.

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