Tymp, as long as you’re being person-specific, my pic’s on the Men of the SDMB too… will you give me your advice?
SOLUTION!!
Take the shirt to a seamstress and have it patched! Most dry cleaning stores have a seamstress. You might even have, archaic as it may seem, a taylor in town!!
You’re joking, right, Prism? It’s a five buck teeshirt. If I want an intact teeshirt, I’ll buy a new one. Right now I want fashion tips for the old one.
Matt,
I have made the following assumptions after viewing your photograph:
You have a very casual attitude towards your appearance. This is not to say that there is anything lazy about your appearance. Rather, you are fully aware that you can look fabulous with very little effort. You don’t feel the need to put much work into your look because you know you can look good without any hassle. When you do take the time to tart yourself up, you achieve remarkable results.
Now, allow me to tart you up in my imagination. Since we’ve covered the torn shirt, let’s move on to you attire for the next evening. Because your shoulders are broad enough to pull it off properly, I suggest loose, soft clothes as a contrast to the well-fitted steel and sliver jewelry that you should be wearing. Specifically, I see a velvet or satin vest under an oversized, slightly worn, soft leather topcoat. The coat should be just shy of knee length. Underneath it all, you should wear a stark white button down shirt with generously cut sleeves. The white will work well with your goatee.
Pants for this get-up are a little tricky. I’m inclined to say leather, but it’s very difficult to successfully manage that much leather simultaneously and still pull off the confident, comfortable look that you’ve got going on. Therefore, I’m going to suggest well-tailored twills with a subtle pattern of black and very rich green and a 3cm. hem. For your feet – wide soled short boots. I’m sorry if this seems predictable, but I wear nothing but boots outside of my office.
For jewelry, I see the following: One steel and leather choker. Not spikes, mind you. I see this more as interlocking steel plate with black leather interwoven. You need a silver thumb ring on one hand and two silver rings with subtle patterns on the other hand. Usually, I stay a way from bracelets, but what I’ve seen of your arms leads me to think that they require some accent. Try a three or five strand steel chain bracelet of 0.5cm. links. I don’t wear jewelry, so I cannot be held responsible if any of this sounds ridiculous.
You features look fairly well defined, so just use a touch of black eyeliner to balance those lovely eyebrows of yours. Lipstick will not work terribly well with that beard. This ensemble will not work very well with glasses. Ditch them unless there’re absolutely necessary.
There! How’s that work for you?
BTW, two wonderful sources of goth clothing would be Velvet Garden and Atrocities. Both sites are owned by delightful acquaintances of mine that everyone should support.
tymp, darling, that’s incredible. Thank you especially for the remarks in re: shoulders, eyebrows. (I was unaware I have nice eyebrows. 
The coat you mention is much too expensive for my straitened circumstances; however, I do own a long black wool coat (a gift). Would that do?
You are quite welcome, Matt. Every compliment is inspired by genuine a admiration of your appearance.
Wool coats can work if they’re cut well and fall properly. Many times such coats are too stiff and cause the wearer to appear defensive. Also, wool topcoats are usually cut with only bland right angles and it’s hard to make them look like anything more than, well, wool topcoats. If, however, you’ve got a coat that’s slightly threadbare at the cuffs and lapels, you can make the whole thing work with a bit of steel chain running around the collar and peeking out under the lapels. I have just such a topcoat, minus the chain, but I never seem to have an occasion to wear it.
Matt…
What a great page you have! Really neat, I have page envy.
Did you design it or was it kind of a kit thingy?
PS…I am talking to you…even though I don’t swing that way???
PSS…I know a gay guy…maybe you know him? 
Graeme: Thanks very kindly for the compliment. I designed it one hundred percent myself, including the graphics.
Where does your gay friend live?
Tymp: I’m going to make a major goth stuff run just as soon as my cheques come in and I can pay off my credit cards.
My gay friends live all over the place…I just thought that it was a stupid question to ask…so of course, I asked it.
Kinda like…“I’m a Canadian”
“Canadian eh? Do you know Geoff from Calgary?”
Ba Dum Dum