Customised goth clothing 

Brighton Goth Paula Huntbach explains how she put together her uniquely personal Goth look:

"I was a Goth in the late 80s and I did therefore wear a lot of black clothes. I didn't have much money then, I didn't have a job, I did bits and pieces of work but I didn't have a full-time job so most of my clothes are clothes which I made and adapted from things which I bought in jumble sales or charity shops. And that was very important to me and also to the friends I had at the time. Gothic clothing you could buy bit if you made it yourself, it was considered amongst the people I knew particularly, to be better in some way. You hadn't gone out and just bought the look from a shop, you'd adapted, bought bits of lace, dyed and sewn them up together, created one's own unique look."

Oral history interview in Brighton & Hove Museums' Renegade collection (OH000028).

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