Is WHIMSIGOTH the 90s witchy bohemian reborn? 

I’m laughing so hard because every time that you would mention a new thing, it’s exactly what I do 😂 Bell sleeves? Absolutely. Velvet? Yes!! Crystals? Sage smudging? Incense & Essential oils? Dripping with boho jewelry? You bet. Avoiding new furniture and getting it second hand from antiquing? Oh my goodness, yes. And leather! Tufted green velvet chairs!! Drying my herbs? I have a legit herb garden so I can! Butterflies and stars? ✨🦋✨ yes! Long flowy dresses and layers layers LAYERS? Yes! Chunky boots? Make ‘em combat! Florence + The Machine? I love her! Smokey eye? My favorite! Basically wanting to be Captain Jack Sparrow with a million rings and a pirate flair? Every day, please! Despite growing up in the Seattle area with woodlands, I ADORE the deserts of the American Southern like Sedona and Southern Utah. 🏜️ Literally everything you said I could check off 😂😂 The one thing I do differently is that I love a pop of color, particularly coral and rust. I actually had a walking staff with a dragon claw and crystal ball on it from The Pyramid Collection (my favorite store) when I was a teenager. This list was awesome!

I wonder if whimsigoth is truly more of an evolution of 90s grunge, rehashed 70’s flower child, mixed with 60’s vampy hollywood witch (Bewitched, Morticia Adams etc) and Japanese dark mori kei. Cottage core is absolutely evolved from mori kei, which is/was more fashion based, and cottage core has taken it to a more aesthetic and lifestyle level. Either way, I love all the style smash ups and cultural exchange involved in a lot of these aesthetics.

hehe I always wondered why i gravitated more to this than the full-on goth, but I could never put my finger on it. I've been trying to emulate this for years. thanks for the breakdown!

OMG I didn´t even know there was a name for this, this is definitely my style and I love it! Sabrina and Phoebe are 2 of my favorite characters ever.

As the official treasurer of the whimsigoth society, I can vouch for all of this! 🔮🌙🌻

This video was so much fun to watch! ❤ I grew up in the 90’s watching Sabrina, Buffy, and Charmed, and even today their wardrobes influence my style. Im so happy to see this fashion style come back. 😊

This is crazy, this was my look in the 90’s. It’s fun to see it come back around again.

Some of the outfits in The Craft certainly touched on this aesthetic. More so Sarah and Rochelle than Nancy and Bonnie though. The Craft also just has my favorite movie fashion ever and is why I’m convinced fashion peaked on the mid-90s.

Ok this whole video had me cracking up but when you got off subject for a sec to talk about goats! 😂lol I love goats, they’re adorable!

I live in Salem and I can confirm that October is like no other. I hate how crowded it gets but I love the whole Halloween vibe of the city for the entire month, it’s why I moved here!

Yay, you’ve given me a new word to describe what I like - the 90’s natural fibres and velvet witch end of grunge. 😁 I feel slightly called out because aside from my main vocation I’m a qualified in several complementary therapies including aromatherapy, have studied phytotherapy and am a druid. 🍃 I also picked navy blue wallpaper with champagne gold coloured stars as my bedroom feature wall wallpaper. ✨ Not quite right on the level of incense, that would cause much nose-blindness. 😂

I live in Puerto Rico where the style is definitely normcore and my style is very eclectic so whenever I'm out and about I tend to get some stares , for example yesterday was a nice cool day so I wore a leopard print long sleeve top with a black vest, black pants and brown over the knee boots and one necklace very minimal in my opinion and I definitely got a lot of stares

I just love how much you mention the 90s and how accurate you are and how you over sell it. I'm subscribed. 👍

How dare you read my DNA like that!! 😂😂 this video is everything and I could not stop laughing the whole time! So well done and in depth. I am so inspired now to put together outfits. I subscribed instantly 😊

I am turning 51 in a few months and my style of clothing I have gravitated to and feel at home in for most of my life is exactly this! I am a youthful looking 50 year old and believe one can still rock this look as an older woman, just choose clothes that are complimentary to your changing shape and overall look💖💖💖

Well that's me, I'm 65

I always personally associated the idea of "whimsical goth" with the early 90's shoegaze/dream pop/twee pop subculture specifically - when I think of "whimsigoth" I think of bands like Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, The Sundays, Cocteau Twins etc. Rachel Goswell from Slowdive is the biggest whimsigoth icon, the Stevie Nicks of shoegaze. Also, re "whimsigoth" fashion, my Gen X mother wore a lot of that shit in old photos of her from the 90's, and she was extremely into the Cocteau Twins, The Sundays, and the Smashing Pumpkins. British "whimsigoth" definitely had much more of a musical component to it and was rooted in indie/alternative rock culture rather than films.

Actually the goth in whimsiegoth comes from gothical, which is related to the gothic era. So it have nothing to do with the style goth. Anyways, good video 😊 I like the references you show.

This was my go to look for the better part of the early 90s.

lol the goat tangent killed me

Thank you for making this video, it was a really entertaining and informative watch! As a game dev this is really useful for me, as I've found fashion is a really complicated subject with tons of variables and combinations, a chemistry of materials, shapes, colours, atmosphere, culture and time! Amazing channel and keep it up!!

Fascinating topuc! You rock theresa 🎉

This is rhe aesthetic that always creeped ne out as a kid (born 2001). I didn't know the name so I'd tell my mom I found the "hippy-gypsy-fortune teller" people and house decor to creep me out big time. Now I know that I was just irrationally creeped out by whimsigoth. That's the term. I actually kinda like some of this aesthetic now. But some of it still creeps me out. Line the suns and moons with faces. Creepy.

I've been doing this since the 90s.. Still my style.. Im so happy its got a name now 😊

I love this video and the most important thing I learned it that goats are great swimmers

Wow... Today is the day I found out I am an aesthetic... LOL!

Sorry for commenting on so many of your videos today but Practical Magic is one of my favourite films, you have ti watch it! I've never been a full on Whimsigoth but I've been appreciating this look more recently. Phoebe from the early Friends has a great Whimsigoth wardrobe. There used to be a shop in my city that was Whimsigoth central, it was great to look round as a 90s teenager.

I am so happy that the algorithm gods blessed us all with this, and blessed you with it. May it bring you many many subscribers. You are my happy place on RU-vid these days.

i really liked this vid. keep up the gr8 work! 😎

I do not believe in any sort of supernatural, it's just an aesthetic for me, but yeah, somehow you've described how I dress. I've been calling this style "the cottage witch", but whimsigoth has a nice ring to it too.

Very interesting video! Do you take requests by any chance? I'd love to see a video about gremlincore :)

I have a lot of rings, I have a half moon necklace with a cat on it. I have skulls, bats and bugs in resin. I need to get the 90's dresses you're talking about.

Really good explanation!

tara was willow's girlfriend btw they are lesbians!

You're playful ignorance to a lot of the things you were talking about was actually really funny and cute lol 💜✨️

You described me 100% and I ain’t even mad lol

This is it...I have found my aesthetic!

This is fabulous! Original 90's goth girl here. I wore Doc Martins, still have my purple docs. And don't forget Fluevog shoes. 💖

Sold!

So I really hate to be "that" person but I just have to say it. The style should really be called as it was originally referred to which was "Whimsigothic" because this style has nothing to do with "goth", which is an actual music-based subculture. It's just not a "goth" style because it didn't come from the goth music scene and as you (rightfully) pointed out, it was a thing started by the likes of Stevie Nicks with her Ethereal bohemian inspired look. This style is nothing new at all, it's been around since the mid-late 60s Think of the kooky aunt who was into spirituality and/or new age beliefs. They tended to dress like this though not usually in darker color palettes, more earthy tones. And alos those who were into Wicca which has been a thing since the early 1900s But yeah Stevie Nicks especially took this "witchy" style and exploded into popularity in the 90s. It's just that back then it didn't have a name for it, people just referred to it as "bohemian style" and it didn't get a unique name for it until recently with the term "Whimsigothic". But yeah I just had to speak on the "goth" part because contrary to belief, it is not a "goth" style at all. Really there are only 4 goth styles that are actually goth (via they come from the music); "𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝" (1980s, bands like Siouxsie And the Banshees, The Cure, The Danse Society, & Patricia Morrison from Sisters of Mercy) "𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤" (1980/1990s/2005 revival, bands like 45 Grave, Specimen, Tragic Black, & Christ vs Warhol) "𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜" (late 80s/1990s, bands like Gene Loves Jezebel, John Koviak from London After Midnight, Anna Nurmi from Two Witches, & Lydia Fortner from The Shroud) "𝐍𝐮 𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡" (2010s, bands like She Past Away, Lebanon Hanover, Twin Tribes, and Plastique Noir) Anything other than those were just misappropriated styles that had nothing to do with goth. Anyway very nice editing work, loved the way you presented the images and you were spot on with the things that make up the look.

so, my old style has a name now? I don't really see many people wearing boho /dark clothe in Canada Quebec (like NONE) ...Going 35 this summer and i can finally afford more how i want to present myself. This style always feels like I'm shopping for 2-4 different style in one (boho/grunge/goth/vintage).

me watching this with freshly dyed purple hair

Yesssss! 🖤🙌🏻

damn you didnt have to call me out this hard lmao

This video is art

Yes..🖤💜

Excuse me? How did you do such an in depth case study of me in specific? I demand answers. 🤣🤣🤣

You are GOOD.

Goth with colours

I've never been so called out 👀

Love how thorough of an explanation this is!! Do you think you could do the same for cyber y2k? :)

Well, now I know my style is this and Cottage Core. I think you mixed St.John's Wort and Snow Drop together.

I love goats AND poison gardens! Lol

SoCal is so boring, I feel you. Moving here ruined my drive for fashion. It's like 70 in the daytime and 40 at night. I have to dress in layers. I'm always cold. Ugh. It's jeans and a light jacket all the time. When I lived in Georgia, I dressed so cute all the time because the weather was a consistent temp all day. Either hot or really cold, and I could dress accordingly. Plus, the reception I got when I moved here was, "why are you trying so hard?" after five years, I've given into the athleisure lifestyle. I actually really don't like how laid back California is, and I'm looking forward to moving. I went to a Christmas party dressed up. Half the people there were in sweatpants and I was mortified. Back in Georgia, that is like not acceptable, at least where I'm from. Apparently, how I dressed daily is considered business casual here.

The goat tangent made this video for me 😂

cool vid :) the mic sound clips a bit

i laughed so hard

I feel targeted 😂

Dear Internet, Please stop adding the suffix "-goth" to any vaguely dark fashion that has nothing to do with the actual subculture. Sincerely, the real-life goth scene

n100 sub :D

I just called it gypsy lol

that mic..

Mainstream 90s goth

the goth in whimsigoth comes from GOTHIC, not goth! Well researched 🙄👍🏻

Not everything started in the 70s.

I find it interesting that you know so much about goats but don’t know what an amethyst is 😂

Very Harry Potter too

Please stop saying boho in Bohemian it's Romani. That is a vary Politically Incorrect term for a culture that we took looks from and renamed it. It's not ok to say boho or bohemian for they look