Threadless has taught me that I'm a very gothy person. I find this odd, since I have blonde hair and wear all sorts of colors but very little black, I may have serious moments but I'm not somber or withdrawn, and I don't have much of a taste for synth or vampires or neo-paganism but if it's slightly macabre on Threadless, I love it.

Take the design Till Death Do Us Part. I saw it in the catalog and liked it, with no real reason. It's on an off-white shirt, and I don't wear much white or off-white, and it's theme is related to weddings, which definitely scares me, since I am anything but romantic. I told myself time and time again that this shirt was not for me, but then it just sort of *hopped* into my shopping cart, and turned out to be my favorite of the shirts I bought.

At that point, I started noticing that a gothy shirt generally got a much higher score from me. I think it may be because these shirts contrast so strongly with the cutesy, anthropomorphic animals, foods products, appliances, etc. that make up a large bulk of the submissions and which really don't have a place in my wardrobe. But for all that cute bunnies belong in the closets of five-year-olds, not mine, don't goth designs belong to angsty teenagers? Why, indeed, am I such a sucker for these designs?

No conclusions yet.