Goths in the Daily Mail...

[emmelinemay]

Goth who walks fiancee on a leash is banned by bus driver who told him: 'No dogs allowed'

The Daily Mail reports that, basically, goths are treated like weirdos because they dress weird.

This is one reason I don't miss dressing crazy on a day-today basis any more.

I have my grannie's voice in my head going 'she'll catch her death going out dressed like that in weather like this'

Oh, daily mail.

The comments are comedy gold.

What idiots! What do they do when they go to work? Dress the same? Or don't they work? They would never get past a first stage interview dressed like this.
- S, Leicester

He looks like a work-shy scrounger to me, get a job and pay your way.
- Harry Basset, Whitby

If he was a gentleman goth, he would loan her his coat.
- John, United Kingdom

Comments

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Aesthetes were definitely Victorian - 1870s, 1880s. They were ridiculed too (G&S' "Patience") and Wilde was once chucked in the river Cherwell.

Edwardians had their own "teddy boys", but largely in a mild and jovial manner. They favoured many of the fashions later revived in the '50s, often with the addition of a swordstick. The more extreme end of this was the same sort who today end up with the BNP. Their favoured "sport" was slumming it in the rougher end of London, then carving up isolated non-English poor people. The whole "Sexton Blake"-era schtick of Limehouse opium dens and "The Yellow Peril" was fuelled by hysterical jingoistic tabloids of the period (which brings us back to the Daily Mule), and anyone non-white around that part of town was considered fair game for a bit of ultraviolence. A lot of Burgess' inspiration for Alex's droogs came from this period.