Gothic is the earliest extensively recorded Germanic language that has come down to us. Knowledge of it is derived primarily from the remains of a Bible translation made in the 4th century by the Visigothic bishop Wulfila or Ulfilas, although the surviving manuscripts are not originals but later copies thought to have been written in northern Italy during the period of Ostrogothic rule (first half of the 6th century). They include considerable portions of the New Testament and a minor part of the Old Testament (Nehemiah). Other remains are scarce and include fragments of a commentary on St. John's Gospel (the so-called Skeireins), a fragment of a calendar, two deeds containing some Gothic sentences, and a 10th-century manuscript which gives the Gothic alphabet, a few Gothic words with Latin translation, and some phonetic remarks with illustrative examples. Anyone who is seriously interested in the history of Germanic languages should have at least some knowledge of Gothic: the language sheds light on the transition from Indo-European to the various Germanic languages and gives clear understanding of their structure in general. For a thorough discussion, we refer to our digital facsimile edition of Wilhelm Streitberg's Gotisches Elementarbuch (1920). Although a little dated in some aspects, notably Streitberg's reliance on Sievers' Intonationsforschung, it's still a very useful primer. The standard bibliography is the Bibliographia Gotica, started by Fernand Mossé in 1950, continued by James Marchand, Ernst Ebbinghaus and now Christian Petersen. A selection is available online at David Landau's Database of Selected Books and Articles (edited by Petersen). WEMSK is also an interesting starting point. Good overviews are Peter Tunstall's Gothic Links (including references to other Old Germanic languages) and Reimar Müller'sGotisch im WWW (in German). Here is a small selection:About the Gothic language
Gothic on the Internet
devoted to the study and discussion of the historical East-Germanic people known as the Goths, Visigoths and Ostrogoths. This list is concerned with all aspects of that tribe: social, cultural, historical and linguistic.
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About The GOTHIC'a
An Early History of Goth
This site is an attempt to give an outline of the beginnings of the goth movement, between 1979 and 1984. It's also an attempt to shed some light on generally unanswerable questions such as When did goth start?, Why did it get called goth? etc.
(and for those of you who are wondering, I've written a brief introductory guide to what is goth?)
At present this site is still very much Work In Progress, and comments, suggestions, information and corrections are welcome, especially if you've got information or insight into the early scene. So please feel free to mail me.
Most of the chronological information on this site is gleaned from George Gimarc's invaluable Punk and Post-Punk diaries, with additional information from Mick Mercer (and his Gothic Rock books), old copiecading Style Sheets version, Hatty for the Zig Zag article, and to Greylock for the Positive Punk article. Also many thanks to Peter H Coffin for giving me extra web space to cope wi
th the inevitable overflow and to Gavin Baddeley (author of Goth Chic) for donating a recent article about the history of goth.
The Post-Punk Landscape
The years in which the goth movement originated (79-83) were extremely interesting and diverse musically. As well as the punk splinter groups (the Oi! and Anarcho movements), there was the Ska revival, the Mod revival, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the fledgling Industrial sound, the so-called "Futurist" movement, New Romantic, Psychobilly and a bewildering array of "post-punk" bands. Out of this peculiar mixture, the early goth bands gradually emerged. Of course, at first they weren't termed "goth" bands, though some of them were referred to as "gothic" in musical style as early as 1979.
A long and rather inconclusive discussion on how they came to be referred to as goth can be found on the name page.
The Early Scene
For anyone who considers the Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim and the Mission to be the archetypal goth bands, the early scene is a rather strange place. The early goth bands were, for the most part, much punkier and livelier, and at one stage were referred to as "Positive Punk". A brief discussion on goth's relation to punk can be found on the punk page. In the early years the dominant goth bands were not the Sisters, but UK Decay, the Banshees and Bauhaus, and a discussion on their relative importance in the early scene can be found on the bands page.
Another common misconception about the early goth scene is that it was closely tied to New Romantic. Whilst it had very loose ties with the (nebulous) Futurist scene, the early goth scene had very little to do with New Romantic.
After the Beginning
As I've outlined already, by late 1983 goth was a fully-formed subculture, and by 1984/85 bands were starting to get irritated with being labelled "goth" bands.
By 1985, "goth" had changed considerably from its early roots.
Most of the early bands had split up (Bauhaus, UK Decay, Sex Gang Children, Southern Death Cult) or mutated in a pop direction (Danse Society, the Cure) and the original movement seemed to have ground to a halt.
The way was now clear for what I call the "Gothic Rock" bands, as distinct from the earlier "Gothic Punk" bands.
The remains of Southern Death Cult, after a brief stint as Death Cult, had become simply The Cult. They moved steadily in first a "hippy-rock" direction (with the "Love" album) and then a full-on Rawk! direction (with the "Electric" album).
Meanwhile, Craig Adams and Wayne Hussey, having left the Sisters of Mercy when they split in 1985, formed The Mission, who were to become prime purveyors of the "Gothic Rock" style, borrowing heavily from 70s rock bands.
Sisters frontman Andrew Eldritch, after major legal wrangles with Adams & Hussey over use of the name Sisters of Mercy and Sisterhood (Eldritch released the Sisterhood album "Gift" to stop them using the name), essentially became the Sisters of Mercy, teaming up with Patricia Morrison on "Floodland" and Tony James on the rockier "Vision Thing".
The classic "gothic rock" axis was completed by latecomers Fields of the Nephilim, whose sound took the deep-vocal atmospherics of The Sisters of Mercy and took it in a direction that eventually ended up not far from prog rock.
Meanwhile the Cure, having pulled back from full-on pop mode, were still popular amongst goths, as were the Banshees, who'd moved in a melodic and mellower direction.
Somewhere along the line All About Eve also got conscripted into the Gothic Rock canon, which given their pleasant, inoffensive hippy-folk sound, showed just how far the idea of "goth" had strayed from its early post-punk roots.
Fashion trends changed in line with the sound, so the earlier "glam-punk" look became less common and a "dressier" style took over. For men, spiky hair and ripped clothing became less prevalent and long hair, hats and more expensive-looking shirts and coats started to appear. For women, flouncier, frillier styles also started to take over.
The evolution of the gothic style can be seen in my own picture gallery.
Along with the evolution in style towards a more genteel look, people also started to look back to 18th/19th century "gothic" styles in literature and dress. This was probably largely a result of the scene having been labelled "gothic", and is an interesting example of the effect a label can have upon a scene.
The UK alternative scene in the mid-to-late 80s was dominated by this Gothic Rock sound and style, with the above bands making frequent appearances in the mainstream charts and selling out larger venues.
However, whilst popular, much of the "Gothic Rock" was very far removed from the early scene.
Whereas the gothic pioneers were innovators, in search of something fresh and interesting instead of a punk scene that had quickly grown stale, many of the Gothic Rock bands were content to plunder the past - the Mission and the Cult were particularly guilty of this, plundering the likes of Led Zeppelin and AC/DC.
Paradoxically, whilst Punk had in part been a reaction against the excesses of stadium rock bands, Goth, which evolved from Punk, had reinvented it.
This was eventually to be its undoing, since the alternative scene moved away from Gothic Rock to Rock, with bands like Zodiac Mindwarp and Crazyhead, and then to the inevitable reaction against goth, with indie bands like Carter and Neds Atomic Dustbin favouring a no-frills unpretentious scruffy look and sound that was in direct opposition to the overdressed look and sound of Gothic Rock.
Then there was Acid House, Baggy, Grunge and Industrial, all of which ate away at the goth fanbase until by the early 90s goth was looking very shaky. There were occasional flashes of life, such as the success of the 1992 remix of "Temple of Love" (with Ofra Haza), but the sure sign of a scene in terminal decline was the lack of popular new bands coming through. There were bands out there, such as Rosetta Stone and Children on Stun, but they only had a small (though admittedly dedicated) following. By the mid-90s Goth had become a minority interest in the UK, and remains so to this day. Certain aspects of the goth look and sound have been appropriated and re-invented, notably by the metal scene, but there is no sign of Goth, whether in its original or Rock form, becoming popular again.
Elsewhere things were different, and the goth scene is still huge in certain other countries, notably Germany. In Europe the goth scene merged to some extent with the industrial scene to create an "industrial goth pop" sound that was to dominate the goth/industrial scene in the late 90s and early years of the current millennium.
Curiously, there now seems to be a resurgence of interest in the earlier, punkier goth sound ("Deathrock" in US parlance), so things might yet come full circle.
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CLOTHING
- The A
esthetic - Beautiful clothing. Original ready-to-wear and couture clothing. Gothic and alternative mens and womens. Expensive, but lovely.
- Accentuate Oddments & Accoutrements
- Clothing and jewelry.
- Ages of Elegance
- Specializes in creation of historically accurate clothing. Satisfy your Victorian and Edwardian needs here.
- Akaara
- PVC clothing. Mostly Lip Service stuff, but some other designs as well.
- Alcatraz-gothic
- Clothing for guys and gals. Prices are listed in Euro.
- Alienskin Clothing
- Skirts,tops,dresses and coats. Gothic and Cyber. UK shop with reasonable prices. Their own clothing line; so not the same old stuff.
- Alternative Gowns by Uptight Clothing
- Historic, bridal and evening gowns in many styles and fabrics. Corseted gown styles. UK site. Worth a look.
- Arcane Lore Design
- Cloaks and Capes. Gothic and fantasy gowns.
- Art of Dark
- German site with some really nice clothes, shoes and other goodies.
- Ashes
- UK site. Unique designed clothing made to measure. Very moderatly priced for custom fitted clothing. Some really nice original designs.
- Atelier Boz
- Lovely fashions. Site in japanese so nice eye-candy unless you can read it or translate it.
- Atelier-Pierrot
- Gorgeous original designs. Site is in Japanese.
- Attitude Clothing
- UK shop. Clothing and footwear. Small selection.
- Azrael's Accomplice
- Corsetry, cloaks, dresses, skirts, tops, custom costumes, accessories
- and clothing for men
- Baby, The Stars Shine Bright
- Gothic Lolita clothing. Just darling stuff. Site is in Japanese for the most part, but can still look at the gorgeous clothes even if you can't figure out to order them.
- Back Seat Betty's
- Specializing in fine vintage clothing and accessories from the 1920's thru 1970's.
- The Baroness
- Latex clothing for men and women.
- Batgear Beyond
- Clothing link site.
- Bats Meow
- Alternative fashion for kids.
- Behind The Times
- Renaissance and Gothic attire
- Black Angel
- Clothing by Sinister, Raven, Aderlass and others
- Blackrayne
- Custom clothing for men and women. Affordable corsets.
- Black Rose
- UK shop with lots of clothes for women and men. Dresses,pvc, tribal tees, skirts & shirts, trousers. Some prices high.
- Blooddrop Clothing & Fineries
- Dresses,corsets, tops. Custom victorian jacket for $100.
- Bluegirl designs
- Bustles, side hoops, bloomers, skirts.
- Bone Church Gothic Clothing
- Jeannie Nitros' site. See and purchase her fashions here. Gorgeous stuff, but be prepared to pay. Treat yourself to at least one of these fabulous outfits.
- Castle Blood
- Elegantly evil fashions. Order The Whole Costumers Catalog here.
- Catastrophe Clothing
- Custom made clothing in velvet and vinyl. Corsets and skirts
- Chaosmagic
- Cute and adorable Cthulhu shirts,mugs, and totebags. I just love Cthulhu :)
- Chain Link Addiction
- Mostly pvc stuff. Tops, skirs, corsets,dresses. Also some stuff for the fellas.
- The Clothing Whore
- Dresses, cloaks, kimonos,corsets. Very small selection, but appears to be quality stuff.
- Club Gothic
- Dresses,skirts, tops, corsets,gloves etc.
- Coemeterivm
- (updated link) Italian site with lots of wonderful clothing at fabulous prices.
- Corinthia's
- Custom Victorian fashions as well as hats and headpieces. Very nice fashions affordably priced. Prices in Canadian Dollars.
- Creative Garb
- Historic inspired fashions. Custom made.
- Crimson Empress
- Tops, skirts,dresses and accessories. They have a lovely victorian bustle skirt available,very reasonably priced.
- Cryoflesh
- Specializing in all things Dark and Futuristic. Clothing for men and women. Stuff here I haven't seen elsewhere, and pretty reasonably priced.
- Cruella
- Expensive tops, dresses,coats,capes,skirts. Only one or two items here that I personally might want, but not at these prices.
- The Crypt
- Clothing, leather, corsetry, footwear, jewelry and accessories
- Cult Design
- UK company. Cloaks, jackets, dresses, skirts, trousers and tops.
- Cyberdog
- Wonderful, unusual cyber-fashions. They have a terrific shop in Camden market in London. Visit them in person if you have the opportunity!
- CyberGrrl Shop
- Clothing,petticoats,bloomers and accessory items. Check out the Strychnine Dress for $39.95!
- Cy-X
- High Tec Fashion. Metal Cyber-accessories. Interesting and not too badly priced concidering the material and workmanship.
- The Dark Angel
- UK company. Shirts, coats & jackets, Bodices, and Dresses.
- The Dark Entry
- Goth and punk clothing and accessories. Leather and fetish attire. Footwear and jewelry also.
- Dark Side Creations
- Latex fetish wear. All items custom made to fit you. Prices in Canadian dollars.
- Dark Sun
- Custom goth clothing. Sketches on site give you an idea of the types of clothing they can make. No prices listed, all custom so will need to inquire.
- David Spain
- Cyber metal fashions for men and women. You have to see this stuff, really unusual.
- Delirium Clothing
- Clothes for guys and gals,jewelry, accessories. Some hot topic stuff, some is their own design.
- Delphina
- A bit of this and that. Shoes, clothes, wips, hosiery, makeup, vinyl and accessories. They carry things like Muro spiderweb boots and gasmasks. Have a browse.
- Desire Clothing
- Fashions in PVC, lycra and velvets. Nice designs. Canadian site.
- Prices in Canadian Dollars.
- Dharmawear
- I'm listing them because I love their embroidered tshirts from Nepal. Also carries sarongs, brocade fabrics, and some cool jewelry
- Disorder Clubwear
- Cyber fashions. UK site. Unique but pricey.
- Divinity Designs
- Clothing for gals. Nice designs, prices very reasonable.
- Dragonfly Formals
- Fashions of the past. Specializing in Edwardian and Regency Reproductions
- Dragons Blood Creations
- Romantic, medieval, gothic, historic, fetish and fantasy clothing. Original designs.
- E-fu
- Custom fitted Cheogosams.
- Elizagoth
- Gothic dresses inspired by spiders, latin mystery, medieval fancies and reptillian flavours.
- Emily Strange
- Emily tees and accessories.
- Enigma Fashions
- Very nice gothic clothing. Moderate prices.
- Exquisite Lass
- Handmade Gothic Lolita clothing.
- Exquisite Restraint
- Corsetry for women and men. Ready to wear and custom orders. Gallery shows some really unique fabrics and designs.
- Fairygothmother
- Fierce Couture
- Original designs. Limited selection, and expensive.
- Mostly pvc clothing for women. Some stuff for men. Also corsets.
- Fionaomcarin Fashions
- Small selection for men & women. Some historically based fashions.
- Flaming Angels
- Gothic clothing for men and women. Also carries a wide variety of sleeves if you need to dress up an outfit. Great website design-you should definatly visit, even just to look.
- Flitterbat
- UK site specializing in Georgian and Victorian gothic with lots of velvet, brocade and lace.
- Forgotten Clothing
- Original and handmade medieval, gothic, magickal, clubwear, wedding, formal, and fun designs made to order according to individual sizes
- The Future
- Alternative fashions for men and women. Goth, swing, punk, fetish; including shoes, clothing, makeup, wigs and accessories.
- Futurestate
- Dark, deviant clubwear and streetwear with a sci-fi futuristic edge. Some of the stuff looks like Dane, altho the site doesn't say that it is. Clothing for guys too.
- Gallery Serpentine
- Custom made historic and goth garb & Corsets. Imagine yourself in
- a Victorian skirt made of PVC! Very reasonably priced, even with
- shipping from Australia. Highly Recommended.
- Gargoyles Clothing
- Goth and club wear for men and women. Corsets, shoes, cloaks, jewelry,
- makeup & hair, hats and others.
- Gobbolino
- Some cute tshirts for gals.
- Goddess Wear
- Plus size apparel
- goodgoth.com Clothing
- Dresses, tops and skirts, cloaks & capes,jackets, gravestone rubbing t-shirts, & Hosiery
- Gothic Asylum
- UK site with clothing (mostly pvc),makeup, hair stuff and accessories.
- The Gothic Factory
- German site with gothic garb of men and women. They also have some home decor items like gargoyle toilet seats :)
- Gothic-Fashions
- Has a few tshirts,1 corset, and a few jewelry items.
- Gothic Fashion sewing
- Site devoted to clothing patterns that would make wonderful gothic garments.
- Gothic Haven
- Made to measure garments and corsetry. Also handmade jewelry.
- Gothic Insight
- UK Site. Clothing and medieval jewelry. PVC, fishnet, velvet, lace items plus makeup and hair colour. Has clothing for the guys!
- Gothik Designs
- Custom Celtic & Medieval Bridalwear. Lots of examples of their work, no prices on site as all work is custom on a comission basis.
- Goth Shop
- Gowns, neckwear and tops for guys and gals. Eternal Love and Lip Service stuff.
- Gothic Styles
- Lip service and Leg Avenue stuff.
- Gotika
- Gothic and cyber clothing for her and him. Also shoes, boots, accoutrements. Good selection.
- Gown of Thorns
- Australian based original design clothing. US dollars go far in Australia, so don't let the prices scare you.
- Grave Images
- Tshirts & tank tops. Specializing in Death imagery: gravestones,skull and skeleton designs.
- Gravestone Artwear
- Products reflecting greavestone carving in New England. Tops, Cloaks, Scarves and Pouches.
- Gravewear
- Original design clothing. I just love their Betrothed gown (wish I could afford it!)
- Gurlie Show Clothing
- Original designs. Small selection.
- Gypsy Moon
- Darkly romantic apparel. Prices seem a bit high.
- Heavy Red
- Fashions for men and women. Dresses, tops, capes,shirts,hats, belts & bags.
- Hellfire Clothing
- Alternative and gothic clothing for boys and girls.
- HFH Clothing
- Unique cyber clothing. Wow. Some of these are really neat.
- Hello Cthulhu
- The most adoreable Cthulhu shirts available here.
- Hobbleskirt
- Custom made skirts
- House of Harlot
- Fetish clothing in Latex and Leather, specialising in taylored, themed styles.
- House of Ill Repute
- One of a kind clothing and accessories in velvets, lace and PVC. Very nice stuff. Expensive.
- House of Lillith
- Corsets, Clubwear, Footwear, Accessories.
- House of Whacks
- Unusual fetishwear in PVC.
- I' m Deranged Clothing
- Basically a goth thrift ship. Inexpensive clothing for men and women.
- In Dark Decorum
- Clothing, Jewelry and furniture. Pinstripe jacket and skirt very nice for the corp goth. Plenty of clubwear and everyday wear.
- Innocent Romance
- Gothic Lolita custom fashions.
- Ipso Facto
- Clothing for men and women. Jewelry, footwear, accessories, cosmetics and wigs.
- Iridescent Veil
- Gothic designs. Small selection of clothing for men and women. Prices very reasonable.
- Kambriel
- Formerly known as Atrocities. Clothing designed for those romantic souls who dream of an existence in another place and time.
- Kate's Clothing
- UK site offering alternative and gothic garb for men and women. Prices decent. They have their original line, plus others by Lip Service, Dragonfly, and Mercy. I love the Pinstripe Fishtail skirt!
- Katclothes
- Custom clothing that your mother wouldn't approve of.
- Kaysers Latex Company
- Aussie company that makes latex fetishwear. Prices listed are in Australian dollars, so with the US exchange rate, you can get a real bargain.
- La Crypte
- French gothic clothing. Does have some bits in english; horrible to navigate site. All made to measure clothing
- Lady Maeves Closet
- Gorgeous custom clothing. Bustle skirts, gothic wedding, corsets.
- Last Chance Saloon
- Attire for the dark twisted deviants. Fetish-punk, tshirts.
- Lilly's Legacy
- Historically based designs for men and women
- Limebarb
- Gothic Lolita and Japanese style school uniforms.
- Lip Service
- "Pioneers of clothing for fashion freaks" Nothing new here. This is the website for Lip Service brand clothing
- Lolo Goth
- Original gothic fashion utilizing vibrant shades of red, blue and purple
- Madame Le Goth
- Original gowns,skirts, and tops. Also fetish wear. Prices reasonable.
- Magic Velvets
- Velvet cloaks
- Medusa Clothing
- Dresses,skirts,tops, corsets. Carries some cute shrugs, nicely priced.
- Mighty Fine
- Great babydoll tees and undies. Flash site, you should visit just to look.
- Miho Matsuda
- Wonderful gothic lolita fashion. The site is in Japanese , so you can at least enjoy the pictures of these great clothes
- The Mission Boutique
- Babydoll tees, Dresses, gloves, hosiery, vinyl, shoes and boots.
- lMoi-même-Moitié
- EGL and EGA clothing line.
- Monster garden
- Lip service clothing. Prices decent.
- Morgana
- Alternative clothing for men and women
- Mortisha Alternative Fashion
- Clothing for Men and women. Also bags, jewelry, and hair.
- Mortishas
- Specializes in unique men's wear, has some women's wear. Gorgeous "Lestat" full lengh coat. These folks are in Australia, so the US dollar goes a long way.
- Mozingo Designs
- Clothing that combines styling features from the 11th century. Nice things, but expensive.
- Nancy Black
- Clothing for men and women. Original designs. Mostly pvc.
- Nightshade
- Clothing and corsets. Standard and custom sizes.
- Nimues
- Latex fashions for women. Offers free shipping on all items.
- Noctifer
- German site. Clothing, veils, Accessories. Prices very reasonable. Love their Fairy top, and the bat Backpack.
- Nocturnal Creations
- Custom made clothing and corsets and anything out of your imagination.
- Northbound Leather
- Leather intimate and outerwear for women and men"
- Nox Obscura
- Gothic, Fetish and Cyberwear. Most of the site is in german, so crank up Babelfish to translate.
- Omen Clothing
- UK based designs. Alternative, gothic,tribal,cyber and PVC clothing.
- Original Sin Fashions
- Custom made period and fetish clothing.
- Panpipes
- Black tshirts with various mystical designs.
- Persephone
- Gothic romantic plus-sized clothing. Expensive.
- Phaze Clothing
- Small selection of clothing for men and women. Some nice designs. UK site.
- Plastikwrap
- Expensive cyber fashions.
- Plush Living
- Rockabilly, goth & punk clothing and clubwear. Shoes and boots, vintage clothing too.
- Punkassgear
- Extensive list of band tshirts, original shirts, New Rocks.
- Purple Raven
- Lovely clothing for women
- Queen of Goth
- Made to measure clothing in all sizes. The Vamp dress in their bridal section is lovely.
- Recollections
- Beautiful victorian clothing for women. Very reasonably priced.
- Red Ankh
- Gothic industrial fashion for men and women. Not a lot of items, but prices are decent and clothing looks nice.
- Red Haze
- UK Site. Goth and Clubwear. Hair Dyes, cosmetics, UV Body gels.
- Red Skull
- Cute tops and bottoms for men and women. Priced right.
- Reflections of the Past
- Vintage clothing and accessories from 1770-1920. The real thing, not reproductions.
- Religious Sex
- Clothing for women and men. Jackets, dresses, skirts, shirts, pants, shoes and boots. Very nice stuff, expensive.
- Rose Mortem
- Shirts, skirts, coats and gowns. Moderate prices.
- Rose and Thorn
- Gothic lolita fashions. Also has offerings on ebay.
- Satin Shadow Designs
- Elegant Clothing for any Century of your dreams for men & women. Lovely designs.
- Scailles
- Cyber-goth designs for men and women.
- SDL Designs
- Medieval, fantasy and gothic gowns. Also a few corsets available.
- Shadowclad
- Used/Nearly new gothic clothing and accessories for men and women.
- Shadow Fae
- Affordable gothic attire for all sizes. Nice full length Mandarin-style coat for $60-$85 looks similar to the one worn by Neo in Matrix Reloaded.
- Siamese Dream
- Hindu deity tshirts.
- Silks and Velvets
- One-of-a-kind garments, corsets, cloaks and gowns. Historic, fantasy, gothic, and movie creations.
- Sinister Candy
- Cute tanks and tees printed with Alchemical, woodcuts, and various text.
- Siren
- Goth clothing. Can order a cataloge from their site. Some of the items in their catalog are shown on the site. I visited them in Toronto, very nice and helpful. Clothing nice quality. Expensive.
- Six Feet Under
- Do it yourself guide to Gothic Fashion
- Skintwo
- Latex and PVC fashion
- Spanki
- Alternative clothing available with several prints.
- Spider's Web
- PVC clothing, tights, shoes, jewelry and other goodies.
- Spooky Kidz Clothing
- Custom clothing big or small. Examples on site, no prices listed.
- The Stranger
- Cutting edge and alternative style. Yungfuktoi, no:wear, & Transmuters.
- SubCulture Array
- Clothes, shoes, jewelry and accessories. Some things reasonably priced.
- Synth-tec
- Clothes for guys and gals. Some cyber-ish stuff & lip service
- Syren
- Expensive PVC garments.
- The Tattered Fairy
- Sells tattered tulle skirts.
- Technokitty
- Clothing by Dane, cosmetics, Craig Morrison bags and fuzzy clothing.
- Texas Body Hangings
- Many styles of cloaks and capes available in velveteen and wool. Expensive.
- Throb
- Corsets, PVC, fetish, wigs, cosmetics. They even have stuff for baby goths stuff like little scull rompers and barbed-rose dresses.
- Tops & Bottoms
- A few outfits in velvet and lace offered.
- Trashy-diva
- Vintage clothing & accessories from the 20's-40's. Expensive.
- Truly Victorian
- For sewging goths : Patterns from the 1840's to the 1890's
- Underbelly
- Mens shirts, cloaks, 1 dress offered. Also accessories like fans,gloves and parasols.
- Vagabonds
- Small selection of PVC clothing
- Vampire Wear
- Vampire Wear tshirts. One of them is a yellow smiley face w/fangs that says: Have a nice day. Hope it sucks.
- The Velvet Garden
- Buy & sell new and vintage Gothic clothing, music and accessories
- Venus
- Full figured clothing for women sizes 14 and up.
- Victorian Gothic
- Corsetry, gothic, club, evening and darkwear for men and women. Custom bridal wear a specialty. Prices are listed in Australian dollars and include shipping. Prices good.
- Victorian Wardrobe
- Victorian clothing, corsets, jewelry, purses and parasols. Lovely selection of victorian clothing at reasonable prices.
- Visabella
- Mythic clothing in velvets and silks for women and men.
- Void
- UK site. Original clothing of velvet,pvc,leather,rubber and lace for mean and women.
- Whorehouse-Designs
- UK company that sells fetish-wear in rubber, lycra and net. Also has some interesting corsets like the Warrior Corset which is leather with metal plates.
- Wysteria
- Plus size gothic glamour. UK site.
- Xistenze
- Goth and Cyber wear. Australian site.
- X-tra
- HUGE german site with tons of goth garb for men and women. There are styles here I've not seen elsewhere. Page after page after page of lovely fashions. They also have shoes, boots and accessories.
- Zuss
- Very expensive hand made recyled rubber design fashion.
THankz For d Visit.........!
GOTHIC LIve in yOUre SOUL....!
Senin, 01 Februari 2010
About The GOTHIC'a
Gothic is the earliest extensively recorded Germanic language that has come down to us. Knowledge of it is derived primarily from the remains of a Bible translation made in the 4th century by the Visigothic bishop Wulfila or Ulfilas, although the surviving manuscripts are not originals but later copies thought to have been written in northern Italy during the period of Ostrogothic rule (first half of the 6th century). They include considerable portions of the New Testament and a minor part of the Old Testament (Nehemiah). Other remains are scarce and include fragments of a commentary on St. John's Gospel (the so-called Skeireins), a fragment of a calendar, two deeds containing some Gothic sentences, and a 10th-century manuscript which gives the Gothic alphabet, a few Gothic words with Latin translation, and some phonetic remarks with illustrative examples.
Anyone who is seriously interested in the history of Germanic languages should have at least some knowledge of Gothic: the language sheds light on the transition from Indo-European to the various Germanic languages and gives clear understanding of their structure in general. For a thorough discussion, we refer to our digital facsimile edition of Wilhelm Streitberg's Gotisches Elementarbuch (1920). Although a little dated in some aspects, notably Streitberg's reliance on Sievers' Intonationsforschung, it's still a very useful primer.
The standard bibliography is the Bibliographia Gotica, started by Fernand Mossé in 1950, continued by James Marchand, Ernst Ebbinghaus and now Christian Petersen. A selection is available online at David Landau's Database of Selected Books and Articles (edited by Petersen). WEMSK is also an interesting starting point.
Gothic on the Internet
Good overviews are Peter Tunstall's Gothic Links (including references to other Old Germanic languages) and Reimar Müller's Gotisch im WWW (in German). Here is a small selection:
- The Codex Argenteus Online
- A digital version of the facsimile edition from 1927, the result of a joint project between Tampere University of Technology and Uppsala University Library. Features reproductions of all fluorescence and ultra-violet photographs of the manuscript as well as four text files with a literal rendering of the manuscript text (a welcome complement to Streitberg's critical edition, which tends to normalise). This is clearly a very useful instrument, probably the single most important website for Gothic studies right now. The edition was digitised by David Landau, the author of website described below, with additional processing by other persons. Related links: the ‘official’ homepage of the Codex Argenteus and a paper on the codex presented at the 64th IFLA General Conference (1998) by Lars Munkhammar, contact person at the library.
- Database of the Gothic Language
- The place to be if you are interested in the Gothic manuscripts. David Landau, who maintains the site, has prepared a digitized text of the Codex Argenteus, as close to the original as possible. You will also find information on the Gothic alphabet, examples of how to read the manuscripts (with selected scannings from Codex Argenteus and Skeireins) and a database of books and articles, among others.
- Gotisch-Projekte
- Carefully edited editions of the various minor Gothic fragments, with comprehensive bibliographical references. Maintained by Christian T. Petersen, author of the latest supplements to the Bibliographia Gotica. His Skeireins Project presents the Skeireins based on Bennett's readings, along with several translations and a complete bibliography on this topic.
- Germanic Lexicon Project
- Large collection of resources provided by Sean Crist (with contributions by volunteers). The goal is to create comprehensive online coverage of the early Germanic lexicon. Includes scannings (TIFF/PNG images and evolving OCR-based text) of at least the following works related to Gothic: Grammar of the Gothic Language (Wright 1910), Ulfilas (Stamm, Heyne, and Wrede 1896), A Comparative Glossary of the Gothic Language (Balg 1887) and Gotische Grammatik (Braune 1912).
- The Gothic-List
- Mailing list,
devoted to the study and discussion of the historical East-Germanic people known as the Goths, Visigoths and Ostrogoths. This list is concerned with all aspects of that tribe: social, cultural, historical and linguistic.
