mall goth

plural mall goths

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of mallgoth.

   My own teen encounters with the look occurred during the ’90s reign of Hot Topic mall goths, an era Jeremy Scott gleefully—and a good deal less restrainedly—celebrates in his Moschino collection, an exuberant gathering of Halloween kitsch that will likely make traditional goths groan.

   2019 October 29, Heather Christle, “It’s Officially Spooky Season. Here’s How to Dress for It Like an Adult.”, in Elle, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Magazine Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2023

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   For those of you who aren't familiar with the term, "mall goth" was a style of dress that combined the hallmarks of punk, goth and metal subcultures and thrived like bacteria in the petri dish of the early 2000s. […] As a black trans femme, [Aaron] Philip speaks to why the revival of mall goth is doing so much better with racial diversity compared to the early 2000s, when the subculture's largest demographic consisted of angry suburban white teens: "That edgy kind of feel resonates, [but] a lot of people thought they weren't allowed to be goth because they only knew it as a white thing," she says.

   2018 May 22, Isabel Slone, “What Does the Mall Goth Nostalgia Trend Really Mean?”, in Fashion, Toronto, Ont.: Fashion Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2023