I put dark and seductive but more be default. Really, I wear a lot of lace and velvet and like to always be very feminine but I am not anywhere near as, flowery, as Victorian. Dramatic probably but not as 'pretty.'
Sometimes I feel I am top goth and on bottom 1940's classic dame. I go around in stuff like black pencil skirts with seamed back black stockings on bottom then shirts like this
http://www.newport-news.com/shop/pro...=0&Ntk=alltext
in black on top with a big garnet cross. (yes I really do shop there, a LOT, you can find a ton if you dig around)
I have a really big shiny black peep-toe shoe fetish too. I must have 30 pairs of slight variations.
Then I cross a very classic hairstyle (actually done the war era way with real pincurls and fingerwaves) with a dark purple smoky eye.
Dunno what 'style' that makes me, Rita Hayworth breeds with Dracula perhaps.
As far as other people go, really whatever matches them the best I suppose. I have seen all that you mention above on various people come of great on some and terrible on others. I think style really comes down to how it fits the individual more than anything else.