/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10695090
I hate that you're right about this

>Lolitas are cheap
I've lost count of how many payment plans and IOUs, whining and begging posts about the cost of lolita I have read. Brand is relatively expensive, this is true.. unless you have some patience and find things secondhand. You can find dresses and blouses from all different brands and styles for under $100 secondhand and put together an outfit pretty easily. A girl I know who only owns a blouse and a skirt keeps posting new releases she cries over not being able to afford when she could have been building her wardrobe secondhand all this time. If you aren't on some ddlg shit you should be an adult and have a job and self control, set your priorities straight and figure out what is within reason for you to buy.

>Lolitas don't care about fashion
Almost a given with how cheap so many are, it's pretty rare anyone dresses themselves nicely outside of lolita, and they don't wear lolita that often so.. it's rare they dress themselves nicely at all. Wearing the newest kawaii pastel fad off taobao is one thing, but there are so many designers out there with incredible stories and designs, making clothing that looks and feels beautiful while being constructed in a way that will last decades. Most lolita brands by comparison are construct their dresses so shoddily and out of such cheap materials, I find it difficult to justify new purchases as quality declines and designs become more and more of the same.

>Lolitas are sticklers for the rules
The style started as backlash against Japan's strict uniform fashion, and it was, overall, a lot more punk. As time goes on, punk is dead, and the fashion itself has formed strict rules on what is and is not lolita. The girls who pioneered the fashion would be laughed off of CoF today. You can look at that two ways, because the overall cohesion and quality of coordinates have improved, but without innovation and experimentation there is no room to evolve. Trends are being recycled and brands are dying out.

>>9699684
this is soo freakin cute

>>9699707
good dump anon, and ikr