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Goths

These goths are at the Big Day Out concert in Auckland in 2007. Goths tend to wear black clothes and black leather boots. Both male and female goths often wear makeup (whitening their faces and blackening their lips).

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Carl Walrond, Teenagers and youth – Transitions and social relationships, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27018/goths (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 22 March 2011, updated 1 August 2017.