Best Kept Deth Secret

Secret Oktober

What's that you say? It's too hot to be goth this year? Nonsense! Strappy, buckley fetishwear; steampunk gear; and dark-designed, industrial-grade haute couture never go out of style (and pleather/vinyl catsuits or variations thereon get oh-so-much-sexier the sweatier one becomes). Owners Cassandra Davis and Mary Milton have been outfitting Austin's night creatures and merciful sisters since 2004. If it's black, lacy, bears the imprimatur of the grave, or makes you look like H.G. Wells on a Bauhaus-hair day, they have it, and you need it if you're ever going to get Andrew Eldritch to take you seriously. Damn the heat and let slip the goths of war!