/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10816308
>absolutely, the western equivalent to this has been around in the music scene for a long time.

True. In the West™ full blown fashion for (neo) Victoria wardrobe get popular around the late '60s. It get's sometimes referred as "Witchy Fashion" in case of female fashion. Dunno if male half of that ever get any nickname. It was a mishmash of victorian with ethnic European and Asian elements. This is more or less how fashion for wearing a lot of jewellery (typical for various regions of the Carpathians in Europe, Northern Africa, many parts of Asia) entered the mainstream. Add to that interest in occultism and non abrahamic religions that also get pretty popular back then and we pretty much can point that time period as the common denominator for what came later in shape of various "dark alternative fashion styles". Before that time dark Victorian fashion after Victorian era was mostly seen in theaters and cinema rather than "in the streets". Tho Victorian inspirations could be seen in fashion magazines back in the '50s but their audience was very limited compared to what came later. Vampira was kinda a harbinger of victorian comeback tho it was mostly the furniture of the set than her dresses that was close to Victorian, tho her (or rather Morticia Addams' whose desing her character was a rip off) torn sleeves could be interpreted as a nod to victorian dresses. By the '80s neovictorian (tho in bright colours) was worn even by more fashionable normies.