{"id":7138,"date":"2016-08-01T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:56:33","slug":"punk-history-gothic-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/2016\/08\/01\/punk-history-gothic-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Punk + History = Gothic Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the presentation to accompany the lecture I gave at Costume College 2016. The topic was the evolution of the gothic subculture&#8217;s fashion, rising out of punk in the 1970s and combining historical fashion elements with music, literature, art, and pop culture, plus how gothic fashion became high fashion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TrystanLBass-GothFashionClass-CoCo-2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Punk + History = Gothic Fashion &#8211; Costume College 2016 class PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to many online images and those from my personal collection, I referred to these books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/gothicdarkglamou0000stee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Gothic: Dark Glamour<\/em><\/a> by Valerie Steele &amp; Jennifer Park<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/blackinfashionmo0000unse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Black in Fashion: Mourning to Night<\/em><\/a> by the National Gallery of Victoria<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=9zT_AgAAQBAJ&amp;lpg=PT3&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New Romantics: The Look<\/em><\/a> by Dave Rimmer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tedpolhemus.com\/main_concept6%20467.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Street Style<\/em><\/a> by Ted Polhemus<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subculture:_The_Meaning_of_Style\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Subculture: The Meaning of Style<\/em><\/a> by Dick Hebdige<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the presentation to accompany the lecture I gave at Costume College 2016. 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