It’s really heartening to know how consistent the Cure fan aesthetic has remained for more than 30 years. On the one hand, you have this woman with the Cure shirt, a black maxiskirt and carrying a Morticia Addams umbrella who was really sweet about having her picture taken. She probably has a really respectable day job, something smart, like lawyer or urban development. And on the other hand, there’s the younger woman in the classic quasi-schoolgirl/Emily The Strange motif that would have been bangin’ in 1984, and still looks bangin’ today. The best part about this look is, no matter who you are or when you wear it, you are not going to look like you’re going for a subculture that is specifically OF a retro era, like certain rockabilly pin-ups tend to be pristinely ’50s, because goth is perennially in-style: Just look at the amount of fashion editors who are presently wearing $1600 copies of a pointy buckle boot that London Underground has been selling for $150 since, like, 1962. Yet at the same time these ladies are nailing the look with low-maintenance accessories, somewhere between the aforementioned fashion editors and late-’80s street goths in Eye Of Horus makeup. All kudos to those who have made it their lifestyle!