I fell in love with this blouse, but before I order it, I’d like to get some opinions from past customers.
Any one?
Forget the blouse – those shoes are excellent!
I love reading their return policy…
Wonder what inspired that one?
I wonder if they take back clothing that smells of absinthe.
That’s a cute blouse though. I like the dress version even better.
I may be significantly behind the Goth times, but…
Explain to me how that blouse (which is lovely) is considered Goth? I wouldn’t have been caught dead in it in my Goth days…
Oh, I do too-especially the one in midnight blue with the silver embroidery.
I too was amused by “don’t try the clothing on your cat.” That just smacks of Homer Simpson’s “See honey? Because of Daddy they have a warning!”
I also found some pretty stuff at Asian Ideas and someone reccomended Good Orient.
Two Questions-
#1- Add my confusion to Bobkitty’s. I just don’t see what those tops are doing on a goth site.
#2-Where are the fu? Bats can easily be found in goth fashion. While sometimes stylized, bats can be found in most of the clothes and art sold in Chinatown. So, why isn’t the goth shop selling blouses with a bat pattern? I can see two explanations- the peach being the symbol of longevity and immortality, the peach blossom pattern has been adopted as a sign of the vampire in the same way the ankh was, or the shop owners were too dumb to ask for bats.
I say go with one of the other sites and get something with a nice wu-fu pattern.
A fair number of goth chicks wear cheong-sams or those mandarin-collared shirts as part of an Asian cyber-slut look. It’s sort of part of the manga and cyber-geisha look, too. It goes nicely with the bloodred lipstick/chignon/black spike heel aesthetic.
I don’t know why they don’t have bats on them.
See, my years of goth clubbing are good for something!
Oh,** Guin**, thank you for providing those links.
Asian clothing styles are so beautiful. If I could get away with it, I’d wear this kind of stuff all the time.
I don’t think I could, though. 
No problem. I am loving the stuff on Asian Ideas, but most of the blouses are Dry Clean Only. A dress, no big deal, since I’d only wear it for special occasions, but if I had a blouse, I don’t think I could justify paying for dry cleaning all the time.
Damn, and the price is just perfect-I thought I’d have to pay a mint for that blouse.
You got a Chinatown anywhere near you? There’s a rather large Chinatown here in Houston. At the big Chinese mall there (grocery store, fabric, bootleg record shops, noodle shop, bubble tea etc) you can get shirts like that on sale 2/$12 in several of the clothing boutiques. They have some really cool stuff and you aren’t paying inflated hipster/trendy prices.
There’s some goths around here that could use a good clubbing… Is wood or metal the preferred material?
Nope, no Chinatown in Pittsburgh, or Asian enclave, as far as I know. Which is funny, because we do have a lot of little ethnic burrows-Polish Hill, Bloomfield (aka Little Italy), Squirrel Hill (Jewish), etc.
Pthibbit.
I think Snow Lion Imports on South Craig Street sells tops like that; I know I’ve seen full length cheongsams in the window. Not sure how their prices compare to the site’s, though; their jewelry is pretty expensive.
There’s also a place in Squill called Yellow-something that sells Asian clothing, but I’ve never actually been in there. It’s on Murray, right next to the Coldstone.
I’ll have to take a look, thanks!
See the film Backbeat in which Sheryl Lee in the role of Astrid Kirchherr always wears black like a moody beatnik chick. Her boyfriend Stu Sutcliffe asks why doesn’t she wear some color. Finally she decides to dress up in something colorful (a moment before Stu drops dead), a brilliant red silk Chinese blouse much like that one, Guin. Or was it a red cheongsam? I don’t remember exactly. The equivalent of moody beatnik chicks in those days would be Goths nowadays.