/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

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It makes me so happy to know that people enjoyed/understood my little ramble!

Old school lolita is absolutely it's own form of punk, to me. Rejecting societal pressure to match the narrow idea of a pretty/sexy appearance, find a husband, have kids, and become a housewife by embracing nonconformity and dressing in a way that makes only you truly happy, as a way to show others that you're actively rejecting what they want you to accept sounds pretty punk to me.

I honestly doubt most modern lolitas care about punk and Vivienne Westwood past "lolita is punky because it's got a petticoat and normie skirts don't" and Rocking Horse Ballerinas. The punk is just.. gone from modern lolita. I know there's brands like Putumayo but their last few years of releases don't strike me as a true mesh/balance of punk and lolita...? Their early/mid 2000s stuff was much more fun. It definitely had a lot more punk influence back then, with a comfy, rough and tumble lifestyle flowing through each piece. Nowadays it's a little too crisp and clean-cut to feel as punk as it did.

Modern lolita doesn't have as much of that punk angle as old school does. There are so many pictures of old school lolitas living in their clothes- lounging around town, having picnics on the bridge with those little plastic mats and laying parasols on the ground at certain angles to block the sun, sitting on the chain fence at the bridge, etc. etc. Nowadays lolita is so crazy delicate that all those activities would require some effort to not ruin (hello chiffon).

With modern normie fashion being, so, well, not that fashionable, modern lolita contrasts that by having detailed imagery, unique fabric textures, and general ambition to look nice.

I didn't mean to go on a whole tangent about Putumayo and I also hope I don't sound like I'm just insulting modern lolita. It's just that so much has evolved in such a short amount of time and I'm just trying to wrap my head around it all.