This girl is so fine I try to give an upvote everytime I see this but I only have one 😞
Lets engineer a shirt that looks black in the visible spectrum but is white in everything else.
Could probably just take a black shirt and smother it in sunscreen. Apparently, you would want “mineral sunscreen”, which aims to reflect the UV light rather than just absorbing it.
No guarantees that it’s actually still black afterwards, though. 🙃
You could do that, unfortunately solar irradiance is highest in the visible spectrum.
No, we suffer in black

That’s why I stopped listening to metal. Too hot in the summer.
Just listen to ska in the summer and metal the rest of the year
Funk, it’s basically thrash but with a wah pedal. And more purple shirts. And black people 👍
I listen to funk in September, metal in October and November, Christmas songs in December, and Irish music in March.
I also listen to Christmas songs in December.
I like the punk end of ska; or maybe it’s the ska end of punk…
That’s called third-wave ska, also called ska punk.
It wasn’t the end of ska because arguably there’s been a fourth wave since then
Yes, I’m a huge fan of the third wave. In my opinion, the song Sound System by Operation Ivy is the perfect blend. Is it punk? Yes! Is it ska? Also yes!
So long and thanks for all the shoes…
And then you can listen to NoComply year round.
Just paint your metal white and your problem will be solved.
Even if it’s not about the heat, I want some diversity. Black gets boring at one point, so I get other colours any time I can.
I don’t know. I wear black, pastel black, broken black, dark black and 50 shades of black. Plenty of options.
Agreed!
For variety, I sometimes switch it up with charcoal, ebony, or obsidian.
But for special occasions I’ll break out the soulcrusher’s Vantablack.
I have a colleague who’s into metal. Always wears a band shirt, always in black. As you’d expect. Except on VERY rare days where she runs out of those or if it’s indeed just too hot to wear black.
It’s downright jarring to see her in anything except black. Looks like a completely different person.
I do imagine it’s nice to be a female metal fan. Never have to worry about what to wear or what colors to match 😂
I know a woman who went goth specifically for that reason. And it’s why I stick to a lot of black in my clothes and cosmetics. Black lipstick goes with everything
There was a brief era in the 2000’s where bands from pop-punk to metal-core released super bright coloured shirts (like fluro-bright) with over the top cartoon artwork, it was a nice change.
Also you can get pink metal shorts/jumpers that go pretty hard (i have only seen these worn by men though)
That must’ve been quite a shock for the average metalhead, fluorescent shirts :D
As a guy who loves bright rainbow shit, I certainly would be the weirdo opting for pink over black.
Funny enough the colleague I mentioned supposedly has a fully pastel pink decorated house. Metal on the outside, Barbie on the inside! I sure do love the dichotomy.
For reference, they looked like this:

(Although these pictures dont do the colours justice, some looked straight up radioactive neon like they woukd glow in the dark)Nice, dinosaur comics reference
Mid 2000s mallcore. Hated it then, am nostalgic for it now. Definitely guilty pleasure music haha
Those are awesome! Definitely would’ve worn a few of those back in the day.
White is not very flattering to the average metalhead figure, and also does not hide spilled beer
Or blood.
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Same.
Anarchists at a summer protest: “WHY DID WE CHOOSE BLACK?! WHYYYYY”
the only white shirt metalheads have is reserved for the next GWAR concert
You mean my red GWAR shirts?
Well sure they’re red now
Yes! I agree 100%. That’s why I buy non black tshirts nowadays. These are the latest acquisitions:
Preach, I quit black metal t shirts ten years ago and haven’t looked back. Unless of course there is no other option, or the colour is particularly crap
You can thank Rob Halford for popularizing the Gay Leather Daddy aesthetic among straight metalheads who didn’t know any better.
White shirts will reflect your body heat back to you.
Is it weird that I just thought about white goth aesthetic as a parallel to those all white PC builds? I don’t think I’ve seen ‘white goth theme’ done before and am kinda curious if it would look good.
You’re close. Not ‘white goth’…
Pastel Goth:


Arguably many variants of the older, harajuku gothic lolita style can/have also been done in primarily white or lighter colors.
This is a more modern dress and pic, but I think you could find examples of similar going back to at least the 90s:

… there’s also now… clown core, and clown goth, but … just no, nope, you’re gonna have to personally choose to look for that, I’m not just gonna force you to see it.
EDIT:
I suppose if we carry forward trends in PC case styling… to fashion… well, we would somehow have to end up with dresses or suits with wood grain pattern elements or accents.
… Not sure if that exists yet.
Can you make a ruffled fringe out of wood, lol?
Or like, wood grain patterned corset, you know, the trunk?
Leaf ears instead of cat ears?
Bonsai Core? Bonsai Goth?
Ok, pretty sure I’m delerious, time for bed now.
lol

sonuvabitch, it exists, a literally wooden dress.
… damn.
Xyla did a good job with that, the details on the bottom are actually inset pices of wood. Still quite stiff but looked better than the carbon fibre one imo.
I had no idea all those styles! Honestly, thank you. It was one of those things where I’ve never really looked it up or thought of it, and of course it’s been done. Doesn’t look all that bad. Not quite what I was thinking, but JUST white would be kinda… I dunno. Wouldn’t work without a little contrast.
There are quite a lot of different styles, certainly more than I am aware of, but yeah, happy to share =D
pastel goth is underrated
Agreed!
I think its neat.
It has been done, sometimes with additional flavors (Victorian inspired, visual-kei inspired…). Google: “White Goth”. Also “White Goth WGT” to see outfits people have worn during the Wave-Gotik-Treffen.
There’s also a pop music aesthetic called ‘bubble goth’ or ‘bubblegum goth’, as exemplified in Army of Love music video by Kerli.

(…) and am kinda curious if it would look good.
Spoiler: It doesn’t
Catholocism does slap pretty hard aesthetically but I don’t personally hold to that form of idolatry.
FYI: Those are not Catholics. They were the bosses of the neo-revelationist UFO cult “Fiat Lux”.
Woah I’ve never heard of them but I’m about to now. Thanks!
Hummakavula?!
I had a dope-ass cream colored shirt from my favorite band, Caligula’s Horse. Was devastated when it got destroyed. Now back to all black stuff…

















