2013-09-21

Lazy day in the world of goth

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What I want to say with my post title is that it's Saturday and I am sooo lazy. I am in my sofa, with my laptop, enjoying my morning cup of coffee (priceless feeling) and blogging. I have no intention of doing anything whatsoever, including laundry or cleaning.  Ok I might have to eat.
I just want to enjoy my gothness by doing absolutely nothing :).
But I know that if I keep sitting in this sofa I will feel rotten so in the afternoon I might go for a walk to the forest near by. That's the benefit of living in Sweden. Wherever you are, there is always a forest near you. And I love it.
So yes, usually me and my significant other take afternoon walks on Saturday evenings. It's a nice but cold day so I might take my camera and shoot something.

Hmm, what's the soundtrack of the day?

Well of course The Cure - A forest

Gothic clothing for guys pinterest board

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Well, look what I discovered today while browsing for some goth outfits. A pinterest board dedicated to men.

It's not mine so I'm not trying to promote it, I would have said so otherwise.

But I think it's a cool idea that deserves to be shared.


Gothic clothing for men styles tips and where to buy

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I will write another post dedicated to men and where to buy gothic clothing items, since I get the feeling that there are more information about women out there and less about men.

---- Update --- I decided to update this post since many of the links don't work any more and because there are more awesome things I'd like to include here. I hope you'll enjoy it -----

So I sometimes browse gothic clothes for men in order to get ideas for my fiance. So here is what I found today.

I have no affiliation with these stores, I just browser stuff and I share them with you :)


Shirts and T-shirts for men

This e-shop is an interesting one. It's called Spiraldirect and it has clothes for both men and women but it seems that there are more items for men. Woohoo! Their clothes have mostly gothic and fantasy patterns on them and they are awesome.

Here are a few examples of shirts of all kinds with cool designs on them:
Find it here: http://www.spiraldirect.com/mens/dragon-heritage-t-shirt-black.htm

Sleeveless shirt with same design as above which has the same dragon/demon design in the back as well. Find it here: http://www.spiraldirect.com/mens/dragon-heritage-sleeveless-stone-washed-worker-black.htm
How about this Viking featuring shirt?
Find it here: http://www.spiraldirect.com/mens/viking-dead-shortsleeve-stone-washed-worker-black.htm

If you like tribal patterns then take a look at this:

Find it here: http://www.spiraldirect.com/mens/stained-tribal-inner-longsleeve-t-shirt-black-silver.htm


If you don't like big patterns or designs and you are more of a low profile guy but still like going into goth/ebm clubs and look cool here are some great shirts for you:

Find it here: http://www.spiraldirect.com/mens/metal-streetwear-shortsleeve-stone-washed-worker-black.htm

Find it here: http://www.spiraldirect.com/mens/metal-streetwear-shortsleeve-workshirt-black.htm
And why not this one:
Find it here: http://www.spiraldirect.com/mens/shadow-skull-grey-sleeveless-stone-washed-worker-black.htm

Lets look for some pants for our goth men, shall we?


I probably have written again about x-tra-x. Well it's a great store with very good prices, so why not?

Here is a simple pair of pants. My advice is that if you are going to wear a heavy shirt, heavy as in with a lot of patterns, or a big stamp like the ones above, go for a simple pair of pants otherwise the whole outfit will look too heavy and busy.

Something like this should be fine:

Find it here: http://www.x-tra-x.de/clothes-male/pants-mens-skirts/hose-cash-jeans-19857.html
This one can work too:
Find it here: http://www.x-tra-x.de/clothes-male/pants-mens-skirts/hose-spiderweb-star-2334.html


However, you can have a simple black shirt or t-shirt, with no patterns or stamps and you can go crazy with the pants.
Like this:
Get it here: http://www.the-black-angel.com/gothic-pants-men/711-queen-darkness-clothing.html
Or this:
Get it here: http://www.the-gothic-shop.co.uk/baggy-black-cargo-trousers-shorts-with-chains-p-4484.html


And these are my suggestions for today. I hope you enjoyed them.

Of course there are plenty more clothes and styles to experiment with and I definitely plan on making more posts like this with different outfits.

So stay tuned and stay goth!
X.

2013-09-18

My Gamescom souvenirs and more

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When I entered gamescom of course I was thrilled to be surrounded by games.

The place was huge.

However, I was so anxious of spending my money on the Valve store.

And here is what I bought
portal-halflife merchandise
Portal and Black Mesa coffee mug plus a "the cake is a lie" cake mix.
black mesa bracelete
My Black Mesa bracelet

And here are some more pictures of what they were selling.

Half life crub head


The man himself Gordon Freeman (sorry for the bad-mobile-phone-picture-quality)


Portal merchandise
Portal 

And that's a small percentage of what I saw and did in Gamescom. But all in all, it was a blast!

My summer holidays and what does a goth wear during summer time, plus some gaming

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It's been quite a while since my last update.
Guilty as charged.

I got a bit busy with my work and well as summer was approaching we started planning our summer holidays.

Since I'm from Greece it was no brainer. We booked our tickets and decided to stay for almost a month.

Since I have all my family there, it was convenient since we avoided paying too much on hotels. However we did do our road trips so we got to see amazing places.

It wasn't that much goth this trip. I mean yes, I did wear my Rammstein t-shirt, my black shorts and my doc
martens (luckily it was not that hot this summer) and well, mostly black clothes.
Here is a polyvore set I made that shows exactly my summer outfits.
Summer gothic style - simple



But our days were filled with sun (so anti-goth but needed for biological purposes as life in Sweden demands for that extra vitamine D), iced coffee and beer drinking, sea, enjoying the greek country side, and of course greek (mum's) food :).

It was refreshing but we both needed something more. And it came. We went to Germany to Gamescom!!
Hell yeah! It was good that we had a ticket for only one day, otherwise it would have been pretty expensive.

I went straight to the Valve merch-stand and went crazy shopping. Ok not that crazy because many items were already sold out.

But since I'm a Half Life/ Portal fan I did buy my coffee mugs, bracelet and even a cake mix (pictures coming).


Gamescom itself was amazing. Exhausting, but amazing.

I would love to go again next year.

As of now, well, I'm back on my routines, my school, my work etc.

And my love for the goth is still alive and kicking.

Updates and more pictures soon. Stay tuned