What is Goth subculture?
{{no sources|date=February 2025}} :''Goth can also mean a member of a [[Goths|Germanic tribe]]'' [[File:Viona ielegems.jpg|thumb|200px|Viona Ielegems at Work at the Wave Gotik Treffen 2005]] A '''goth''' is a word usually used to describe a [[person]] who listens to [[gothic rock|gothic music]] and/or dresses in a goth style [[clothing|clothes]]. Goths often wear [[black]] and unusual [[jewelry]]. Both goth [[men]] and goth [[women]] often wear [[make-up]]. The ''goth subculture'' originated in the early [[1980]]s among fans of the first gothic rock group, [[Bauhaus (band)|Bauhaus]]. The word goth comes from the word ''Gothic'' which actually means ''gloomy'' or ''dark''. This meaning of the word comes from ''[[gothic fiction]]'', a type of literature popular during the late 18th and early 19th century. People who call themselves a goth are those who live up the meaning of the name through wearing clothes or putting on makeup that is in colors that represent [[death]], decay, or gloominess, such as the color black, deathly [[white]] face makeup, dark [[blood|bloody]] [[red]] colors, or the tones of the color [[puce]]. Goths wear normal black clothes and mix them with other colors to make a new look. Goth people are often mistaken to be [[emo]] or [[punk]] because of the everyday [[stereotype|stereotypes]]. [[File:A flag the gothic.png|thumb|A goth flag]] {{stub}} [[Category:Goth subculture| ]]