While goth fashion, like punk before it, has always been intentionally conspicuous, I feel like the increasing obsoletion that has since come to a head and has now passed has lead to a new conspicuousness but in this obsolescence. In other words, the beginning and middle of this decade was a kind of climax of a kind of reflection upon the then-state of subcultural ideology and aesthetics that now, at the end of the decade, has reached a dénouement. At least, for me. Perhaps its old age but I can't say I've grown out of it as I was never really in it.
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