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Growing up goth: 11 things you’ll only understand if you wore black in the 1980s

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Film 'BEETLEJUICE; BEETLE JUICE' (1988), WITH WINONA RYDER. Directed By TIM BURTON 30 March 1988 CTL37185 Allstar/Cinetext/WARNER BROS **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Editorial Use Only
Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice totally got it (Picture: Allstar/Cinetext/Warner Bros)

Sensitive and artistic teenagers set adrift in the colourful soup of the 1980s found solace in the gothic.

White of face and clad in black you were a world away from the day-glo pop and clothes of mere mortals.

You were transcendent, you were other.

But it wasn’t easy, it wasn’t just about spending your days trussed up in uncomfortable dark clothing and standing in front of a gravestone when you had your picture taken.

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