Back at Wydown Junior High School in St.Louis, one subset of the pre-Smiths/Cure goth crowd was made up of girls sporting the pirate look. The look was made up of striped (also known as the munchkin look) or black tights under black skirts with white shirts and dark eyeliner and lipstick. I even remember a pirate hat or two, though that may be a revisionist image on my part. This crew took their fashion and music cues from Adam Ant, with whom they were all hopelessly smitten. I always dug the Adam and The Ants sound, and still put on this record occasionally.

Ant Music