/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10273622
Yup. If you are interested in more the GC reddit is pretty good, the only place I go on reddit. You dont have to agree with everything said but I like it.
Also lolcow has a GC thread in /ot/ but its really gone to shit so take it with a grain of salt lmao.

Lolita and feminism are rooted together. So I know some may think its annoying to sperg about such matters. But personally I find them very interconnected. And perhaps not in this thread but I would love to hear more talking points from other lolitas about lolita+feminism in the future.

>>10113036
no. lolita already existed when gothic lolita got popularized as vkei groupie fashion. idk where you guys think sweet and classic lolita came from if you think lolita was sprung from the mind of mana.

there also literally was an early lolita magazine called rococo!

> when did you discover lolita? how old were you?
I don't remember exactly when but i think i was about 12. i used to play stardoll a lot, it's that site that had all the celebrity dress up games but you could also make your own virtual paper doll avatar and basically just build your dream wardrobe. They had a j-fashion inspired store in the mall (i think it was called sunny bunny?) which became my favourite and I joined a group on the forums for "kawaii" clothes, and someone brought up lolita. Honestly it was love at first sight when i googled it. I never wore it until much later though, even bodyline seemed expensive to me when i was a little babbu so my dress obtaining was limited to scarce gifts until high school, when I had a job and was able to get more than one dress every two years.
>what substyle first interested you?
definitely sweet, and i became interested during that time where super pastel late 2000s sweet was cool and everyone was shitting their bloomers over sugary carnival and milky planet. i don't like that style anymore, i stick to classic and the kind of sweet that is less likely to get me accused of being an ageplayer.
>what was your first dream dress? did you ever get it?
my first dream dress was either sugary carnival or milky planet but i never got either and they're no longer dream dresses.
> first brand dress?
my first dress was also my first brand dress, there used to be a store in my town that stocked japanese stuff and they had some innocent world. my parents knew i liked that stuff and i was lucky enough to recieve a jsk
(that i can't remember the name of) for my 14th birthday. I wore it to my first con the next day with a friend who was in a ghibli cosplay, who later became a gothic lolita which makes me very happy.
>did any particular coords, pics, media, etc make you fall in love with lolita?
i got big into manga by peach pit, like rozen maiden and shugo chara.

(pic unrelated, just a coord i like)

>>9973526
>Is it really?
It is, or at least that's its origins. You wouldn't know that based on online opinions of people who are afraid to wear it daily but it is, and some of us do wear it regularly or semi-regularly.
There are disagreements on whether it's common to see these days or not and what the reasons for that may be (some claim to have seen no lolitas at all in Tokyo, other say they do and regularly so); I think the general consensus is that the influx of gaijin tourists coming in to Harajuku to gawk and take photos like they're in a safari made the alt fashion kids migrate to other places like Shibuya and Osaka, and you're more likely to see them on the weekend than on a regular weekday. Depending on where and when you went around these places, those might be the reasons you've seen none.

>>9796938
Yeah. Well, even if they were classified as itas, they would be among the best dressed ones and to even refer them as itas feels so wrong. In street snaps people usually tell where their style came from, their inspirations and what not, whereas itas look like their coord was done in impulse and no thought put on it whatsoever.

>>9564828
Embrace it.

>>9565262
Rule of thirds, cameras have the grids for those for more than ten years. Line up key features and shoot.

>>9565284
Embrace the snaggletooth.

No matter how much time passes this will remain one of my favorite coords ever.

>>9432327

This makes my old school heart beat.

I remember getting the fruits book from my mother, and then falling in love with lolita, even though I did not know what it was at the time. This girl was my favorite, and she's still an inspiration of mine. Everything about her is just perfect.

>>8239377