Blackened silver: 57-year-old Briton became a goth after beating cancer

Usually informal currents are considered youth, but there are rare exceptions: among the frivolous sparkles, silver blackened by time comes across. Such an almost antique "decoration" of the Gothic subculture was a 57-year-old British woman from Brighton. She started wearing distinctive makeup and clothes after she beat cancer. The woman calls herself an "old lady".

Find out what inspired her to join this dark subculture from our material.A pentagram and tattoos with skulls, purple eyebrows, gloomy dark-colored clothes and belonging to an extreme subculture are definitely not characteristic of the image of a highly respected 57-year-old employee of the legal department.

But Jane Wilkes from Brighton doesn't mind. She has declared herself an "old-fashioned" and does not get upset, but only grins when people whistle after her the theme song from the movie "The Addams Family".

Women have always loved to express themselves with makeup and bright images. Representatives of the punk movement of the 70s - 90s stood out from the crowd and did not want to follow the standards either internally or externally.