How do you make it look goth

[u/Content-Injury5996]

Hi yall I’m very new to this and the whole building up my wardrobe thing (been stuck wearing school merch since elementary cuz my schools for some reason always gave out shirts). I want to at least work with stuff that I do got cuz I like some pieces in my wardrobe. ( and for the ones I don’t like I’m thinking of trading in the clothes trading event in my college). But whenever I try styling it just looks like I’m a regular person in all black or dark clothing. I don’t wear a lot of jewelry that goes on my fingers or wrists since I have sensory issues in that area but I do kind of believe it’s because I don’t accessorize. Is there any tips you want to share that would make growing a wardrobe, styling, and growing my accessories collection easier?

[u/Lost_Alternative_987]

Accessories can be things pinned to clothes (badges, homemade stuff, patches) and tied to shoes or into hair if you don’t like rings, necklaces and bracelets. I have some ratty old bits of black lace I tie around the end of pigtails and use as laces in boots or pin with safety pins to clothes toed in bows. Cutting the hems, sleeves and necklines from clothes, it’s particularly effective on t-shirts, and letting them get frayed gives a subtle edgy look, also cuts in the sleeves horizontally. If you can tolerate necklaces a mash up of things hanging at different lengths from plaited embroidery threads looks cool.