How to be a Raver
You’ve got to love the word ‘raver’; it’s just so evocative of different images, unlike so many other fashion paradigms. What’s a raver? Someone who raves. What does a raver look like? Good question. There’s no real hard and fast answer to that one, so I’m just going to bash out a few ideas, whilst sitting here in my cashmere cardigan. Here’s how to look like a raver:
Attire
Well, this is a tricky one really. Ravers really represent a whole host of electronic musical genres and subgenres. Take dubstep for instance, the most popular type of electronic music. Dubstep consists of walking-pace bass and snare patters, with occasionally blasts of extremely distorted bass (wub, wub wub) and other noises of electronic weirdness. Dubstep kids typically wear hoodies in garish colours and are usually dancing to that music on some kind of nasty chemical cocktail, which I totally don’t recommend anyone trying. I guess garish colours were certainly something of the 90s rave scene, spurred on by big acts like Prodigy. Flourescent shirts, fishnet gloves, glowsticks and baggy trousers were all a big part of the 90s raver scene in the UK. Attempting anything like that today would probably result in the amusement of onlookers, but by all means try it, if only for irony’s sake.
If we delve deeper into the more esoteric subcultures, such as the cyber-goth culture, we can definitely find some more interesting examples of raving attire. Take a trip to Camden market in Camden Town, London and you’ll be able to visit a very strange shop called Cyberdog. Here they like to blast their clientele with weird techno music, plus all the staff are dedicated cyber-ravers. The owner, in fact, a charming lady, has a metal-spiked plate screwed into the side of her bald skull. With cyber-goth culture comes dedication, to say the very least.
So, there’s a brief few highlights of some of the parts of the raver culture. In fact, the golden rule of raving is there’s no rules. Hell, I can even turn up to a rave in my cashmere knitwear. Why not, in fact? It would be ironic, of course.
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