I have a confession: My road to being your geeky Fashionista has been a long and arduous one. Had you met me about 9 years ago you would have asked me if I had knife on me before you even thought to ask me if you should go for the low-rise or the boyfriend cut; I wish that was an exaggeration but it isn’t anywhere near (see photo below). My wardrobe in Jr. High and most of high school (until the brown phase senior year) consisted of black, some red, black, some neon, black, gray, maybe blue, and you guessed it black. It wasn’t that I lacked imagination, most of my shirts had some design on them and my pants (along with just about anything else) were all covered in studs, zippers, chain, if it falls in the hardware category my clothing was embellished with it. It could quite literally be said that it was a dark time in my personal fashion history, not because I have anything against the ‘goth’ look but because I was so boring with it. If someone had introduced me to the more refined generas of the goth style perhaps my wardrobe would have been a bit more interesting, I would have been spared a ‘mall goth’ past, and I wouldn’t have destroyed my mom’s leather seats with my Tripp pants (true story). Read on for some awesome ‘goth’ inspired looks for the inner goth girl who has survived in you!
