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Being Gothic- Clothing and Accessories

Clothing:

Plus size girls often have trouble finding really cool and Gothic clothing. Hot Topic has opened a sister store called Torrid. They carry sizes 12 and up. It is absolutely one of my favorite stores.

Hot Topic has everything you need, from clothing to accessories to make-up to shoes! Some people call it "Retail Gothic". But for those of us out in the sticks, I call it convenient. They have great stuff and make sure you check out the clearance section.

Emily isn't clothing, but she has a clothing line. She is one of my favorites as far as baby doll tees goes. Emily the Strange is great for those casual days.

An awesome artist named Brom designed this shirt. I know I'm only sending you to one shirt, but this was worth the space on this page. They also have a couple of his other designs you can get to from this page.

If money is an issue, you can find some alternative corset choices around $100 or less. Just remember, wearing these are more for costume than for losing inches. For a real corset of extraordinary quality, go to my friend Suzanne, or another profession corsetiere.

Halloween and costume shops are a great way to add pieces to your wardrobe. Just make sure you look for the higher quality items. These two capes drape like coffin lining. I think they're pretty cool, but I don't know the quality as I haven't seen them in person. They look pretty good from the pictures though.

These are more clothing options from the Costume Zone. The dresses could be used for clubbing, and the poet shirt looks to be very good quality.

Another online costume shop with some interesting dress choices. They have plus sizes also.

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Accessories:

Although this site is primarily contact lenses, they also have a selection of really cool jewelry, Manic Panic hair colors, Manic Panic make-up, Henna tattoo kits, T-shirts, incense, tarot cards, and other wicked gifts. Including tombstone shaped soaps, gravestone rubbing kits, and coffin gift boxes.

Gothic Boots at shoe-shop.com A superb range of New rock and Swear boots available with free delivery in the UK.

Fishnets are a Gothic staple. And these are available for so cheap! Only $1.95 a pair.

These tights are going to run you more money, but look at the feet. They are reinforced to make it easier to wear them without your feet poking through.

This is an example of the type of jewelry you can find at Catalog City. They are really a sell a bit of everything site, but if you search, you can find some wonderful items. They have a lot of Celtic choices in particular.

Well, being Gothic we tend to stay out of the sun. It's necessary to own a great many sunglasses if you're going to be out in the daylight hours.

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Beauty:

Cool contact lenses can change your eye color, or give you other creepy effects.

Animalistic, dazed, exotic, freaky, ghoulish, mystical, otherworldly are all a part of the Wild Eyes collection. They also have a number of other choices available in their Crazy and Wicked FX collections. Pretty cool!

Vampire/Elf ears are a fun accessory. Wear them to club or Halloween.

Vampire Teeth are a popular accessory with the club going Goths. Some come in coffins. Some go on like dentures. Some have double sets of fangs.

Buy Costumes dot com also has their selection of Vampire Teeth available.

A lot of the club going Gothic croud goes to extremes in dressing. Something like this "Bondage Vampire" wouldn't really be a stretch for some people even though it's sold in a costume shop.

A vampire bite is sometimes a fun little touch. These are ideas you wouldn't use daily, but sometimes it's fun to add little extras like these when you're going out.

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