/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9600165
Last time I went to an art gallery a woman asked me if my outfit was inspired by Grayson Perry.

>>9600167
There was another anon who was also compared to this guy, is this a common occurrence for UK lolitas? Jesus.

>>9600177
That might have been me but it's happened to one of my friends before as well. I'd understand if they had a Grayson Perry exhibit on or something but it was all fine art.

I can kind of see it for OTT desu but I wasn't even wearing sweet.

>decked out in moitie
>get asked if I'm a princess

I see how this would be common and fitting with sweet and classic but I always thought it was very strange that I was in gothic and someone drew the parallel to princess.

>>9600177
One of my "friends" said they thought lolitas were more autistic than furries and just as weird then said I was being prejudiced against furries when I got offended.

>>9600182
Normies only have so many frames of reference for poofy skirts. Last time I wore OTT gothic I got asked if I was Bo Peep.

>>9600165
One of my "friends" said they thought lolitas were more autistic than fursuiters and just as weird, then said I was being prejudiced against furries when I got offended.

>>9600187
hes not wrong

>>9600182
Oddly enough, I had the opposite experience.
>wearing simple but cute sailor coord in sax and white
>some dude asks if I'm a witch

>>9600165
nobody has ever compared me to anything. I wonder if I'm doing it wrong.

>>9600207
Maybe people in your area aren't that imaginative. Then again when I started wearing lolita and someone compared me to Alice despite the fact I wasn't wearing anything remotely resembling Alice, that was my indication that was doing it correctly so, you never know.

>>9600207
Yeah, I don't get compared to anything, either. I wear mostly Moitié and people ask if I'm in a play/where the special event is/is this cosplay. But I've never been compared to a fictional character or public figure.
>pic unrelated, but I wish I was compared to spongebob

>>9600165
Old man asked me very rudely if i was going to be a nun when i was wearing all white and a fucking headdress. Still pisses me off.
>>9600199
Maybe they thought an anime witch? Like sailor moon? I dunno
>>9600209
That's a good mindset.

>>9600207
Maybe you just live somewhere where strangers are too polite to say this shit, and your friends and family know you well enough to know better.

>>9600182
back when I lived in a college dorm
>wearing toned-down MM with natural make-up and loose hair - high-waist A-line skirt and simple bolero with a fairly plain blouse, opaque tights and shoes I'd bought in a mainstream store that season
>go into friend's room to ask how I look before I head out, since it was an old building with all the rooms different sizes and hers had a much bigger mirror than mine
>friend had a girl I didn't know visiting, who said I look like a "mental possessed creepy dolly" and asked if I was really going to go out like that
>everyone else I interacted with that day either said nothing or complimented my "vintage outfit"
>???

>>9600216
>anime witch
Nah, he actually asked if I was on my way to a coven meeting. It was very strange.

>halloween
>full black witch coord, bigass pointy hat and all, short dark brown hair
>walking with a friend dressed as willy wonka
>"look it's Alice and the Mad Hatter!"

Otherwise people keep calling me Anne of Green Gables, but I wear classic and live in Canada so that sort of makes sense.

>>9600177
My least favourite UK culture reference to be compared to is the delusional Victorian/Edwardian crossdressers from Little Britain's "rubbish transvestites" sketches. Last time it was re-run on TV my family started ripping the piss out of me like "lol that looks like you".

>In my mid twenties
>Wearing a solid black Gothic coord
>Get asked- seriously- if I'm making my Communion
>You wear a white dress for that wtf

I don't even think adults making their Communion wear a white dress!

>"oooh you're dressed as a manga"
Yes my good sir, I indeed am dressed as a japanese book. I also dress as novels and comics sometimes.

>>9600286
I laughed out loud.

My cousin wears fairy kei and her mom is always saying "I just don't understand why she's always dressing like those mangas. I think she wants to be an anime." My cousin's a weeb though, so she's not entirely wrong.

>am a blonde girl white as mayo
>wearing an OTT sweet coord at a con
>go out to dinner downtown by the convention center
>drunk group of soccer moms eating outside see me
>freak out and yell "she looks like a Japanese Lady Gaga doll!!"

I'm sorry I wasn't aware gaga was Japanese

>>9600374
She has worn it a bunch of times so congrats someone actually recognized it correctly but just didn't know the proper name

>>9600374
>Japanese Lady Gaga doll
That's such a weird way of saying it, why not just "Japanese Lady Gaga"? That's funny though.

My old roomie compared me to Melanie Martinez even though I exclusively wear gothic and classic, have never owned a split wig, and haven't owned a twintail wig since my shameful ita days in 2013 that I've destroyed all photographic evidence of. I understand why because of Melanie's whole concept, but the comparison always skeeves me out because of the ageplay themes in her videos and among her fans.

>>9600377
Yeah, I wasn't offended it was mostly just funny and silly. Better than Bo Peep.

The first time my mom saw me in classic she said, and I quote, "you look like you should be selling butter".
The only other comments I've gotten was a bewildered old man saying 'Big Bang Theory?!' and a middle aged women asking what sort of folk costume I had on.

>>9600422
>'Big Bang Theory?!'
I'm not sure why this is so funny to me

>>9600428
didn't they have an episode on cosplay at one point? not sure because I don't watch it.

>>9600165
I was wearing all-black gothic.

>>9600209
I was compared to Alice while wearing himekaji (OP in pic, pearls, pink platform boots and side braid with a bijoux hair-tie). It seemed super random. But I've somehow never heard it while wearing lolita?

Normies are stunning.

>>9600428
This gif sure has become overused

>>9600467
It does look alice like...

>>9600467
Really? Huh.

Well, I tend to go all out with the big hair and eyelashes and heels when I'm in himekaji, and I'm tall so that dress barely covers my ass, so I'm usually more concerned people think I'm a some qt escort (has happened). I guess it was just really different than what I was expecting and it threw me off.

>Wearing Haenuli's Enchanted Fawn in Fawn
>Hey, it's Mrs. Claus!

>>9600474
Sorry I meant >>9600471

>>9600470
Sorry anon I'll try to use other gifs to make things more interesting for you

Was at a show of local bands last week with my little brother having a catch up, we've just walked in. Musician breaks set, says we've got a big booty lady over here & starts singing "all about that bass" by megan traynor. Am wearing gingham AP, arse is flat as a pancake under my petti. Mortified.

The little britain & grayson perry comparisons itt are cracking me up!

>>9600547
>Musician breaks set, says we've got a big booty lady over here & starts singing "all about that bass" by megan traynor. Am wearing gingham AP, arse is flat as a pancake under my petti.
Oh my god

I've had people call me lala loopsie...on several seperate occasions. Also people asking if I'm going to rocky horror (in sweet lolita, no less)

>>9600165
KATY PERRY - a lot around 2010-2012, I think because we also had cupcakes etc on her outfits and bangs. I didn't mind that too much.

LADY GAGA - for weird reasons I will never understand

DOLORES UMBRIDGE - I wore a AP coat with matching pink hat.

JEFFREE STAR - no idea why, im a pastel coloured sweet Lolita.

MELANIE MARTÍNEZ - you know what, I get it. She wears AP too, sweet and all that. But boy does it bother me

LITTLE BO PEEP - tourists going baaah baaaah when I walked by. A lot of times.

GAY GIRL HARRY POTTER - like, somebody stopped me to tell me I looked like crossdressing gay Harry Potter. I wore round glasses and a blond wig.

VENUS ANGELIC - especially after she was on tv. " I know what your ate, you are a living doll!"...

>>9600590
>crossdressing gay Harry Potter
I know it's just the glasses that make people think that but I'd splutter-laugh if anyone called me that IRL, it's hilarious.

>>9600167
>>9600233
>>9600547
While we're appreciating Brit cultural references, a friend said all looked hideous and creepy and reminded him of Rimmer in the Red Dwarf episode where he gets infected by the holo-virus. I'd been wearing lolita for three years at that point so that one hurt.

My boyfriend and I play pokemon tcg competitively. My state has pretty much gotten used to me wearing lolita to tournaments, but every time we go out of state it's "omg i love ur nurse joy cosplay!!"
Even while not wearing pink. Even while wearing gothic.

What even...?

>>9600648
I've been meaning to wear lolita to mtg events just to see how people react. I'm glad there's someone out there doing this

>>9600645
I laughed.

>wearing a simple oldschool coord
>some rando normie asks why I'm dressed like Corpse Bride

>wearing simple old school coord
>rando not mid asks why I'm dressed like Corpse Bride


I was wearing fucking pink.

>wearing simple old school coord
>rando normie asks why I'm dressed like Corpse Bride

I was wearing pink.

>>9600550
Hahahahaha this gave me a good laugh

(Said to my mom, was a babylita at the time) "Is she part of a dance group or something?"

That was the same day some guy passed me and did a double take.

>>9600233
I won't lie every time I see those sketches I have to admit to immediately thinking of the lolita lifestyler people. Trying way too hard and being hilarious about it.

Still one of my favourite of their sketches.

>>9600701
Oh really? I think (like a lot of theirs) it's quite mean-spirited humour and it makes me cringe to watch it.

>>9600558
lala loopsie isn't that weird to compare

>wear gothic ouji/EGA
>winter meetup so long pants, top hat, long gilet
>daytime-drinking grandmas tell me i look just like Peter Pan

the fuck

>>9600648
Nurse Joy technically did goth up in the first pokemon movie, but that's quite funny.

>>9600269
wow

>>9600590
>crossdressing gay Harry Potter.
Years ago, I got "goth gay Harry Potter". I'm imagining the same person with a very narrow range of interests accosted us.

>>9600422
>big bang theory
That's one I never expected to hear.

>>9600590
Ah yes, GayGirlHarryPotter-Kei, my favourite jfashion.

>>9600477
>>9600675
>>9600766
>>9600648
How the actual fuck.

>>9600711
Honestly, no judgement: life gets a lot easier when you don't take yourself so seriously.

It's nothing anyone can do for you or teach you, rather a decision you have to make from the inside. Laughing at yourself, seeing the humour in the choices you make, will go a long way to making life a little more pleasant.

>>9600233
The bane of my life. Anytime I wear Jfashion, I can hear my parents singing at me "Martin Clunes,Martin Clunes".

>on train wearing gothic, all black but toned down
>woman looks at me intently
> ' You need permission to film me, I don't care about social experiments!'
> has said other stuff about knowing what program I'm with but I didn't realise she was talking to me so wasn't listening
> move to other end of carriage

I don't think I could ever feel the need to just spew shit to a stranger like that

>>9600790
To the people whining about their parents:

This is an 18+ board. Take the parent whining to tumblr.

>>9600778
>it's the edit I made!
Urgh I really fucked up the colour balance on the coord. I'll have to fix that sometime.

Anyway

I was wearing a casual coord with a babushka at University a few months ago. Someone said I looked like Hansel and Gretel.
Both of them.
It's not at all horrible but it was a little silly.

>>9600799
>people older than 18 never interact with their parents

>>9600782
Oh, it's not because I'm taking myself too seriously, I mean in general. I found it cringey long before I got into lolita because I don't really enjoy Little Britain's style of humour, I'm not offended because I feel personally attacked as a silly fashion wearer.

>>9600796
That's pretty funny desu, did you tell her you weren't part of a social experiment?

>>9600790
IDK whether to be impressed by the fact the eyebrows are dead-on Fresh Fruits styling or sneer because that look was ten years out of date by the time Come Fly With Me came out (never mind the fact they got away with yellowface on a program only released five years ago, Britain is a trip).

>>9600590
>GAY GIRL HARRY POTTER
congrats, you're Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way!

>>9600907
holy shit

semi-related, got told I looked like an emo last time I wore blackxwhite

>>9600645
That gif!!!!!

When pokemon go was all over the news, I had an elderly man come up all excited to me and say "I know this! It's that pokemon thing right?" He seemed so proud of himself that he thought he knew what the kids were into these days. I almost didn't say no.

Wearing full sweet and tourists like to ask "Is this *insert European country*'s national outfit?". Yeah cause in the 18th century they could print stuffed animal dresses.

>>9600996
That's so cute.

Semi-realted, but once I had to explain to my customs office what my lolita dress was. When I unpacked it (it was AP's Royal Unicorn in brown) he assumed it was a dirndl-thing and we went with that.
>tfw we were both german so he should know better than that.
>also all of my dresses before and after were 'cosplay dresses' in his opinion

>1800s hooker
Still wondering why a woman thought that was something we wanted to dress up in...

>>9601062
*dress up like.
Need more sleep.

We were all in Classic Lolita, but with prints and such. No dresses that looked like they could be from that time.

>>9601062
1800s hooker seems like a good ero theme desu

>>9601062
>Why are you dressed like a 19th century hooker?
>Why are you dressed like a 21st century hooker?

Man shouting out of a car window:
YA LOOK LIKE A BLOODY PIC N MIX, LOVE'

>>9601076
Is this another Brit reaction? It sounds like a Brit reaction.

>>9601076
That is great ngl

I've been told I look like Mary Poppins, Bo Peep, Madeline (as in the kids movie), Sailor moon, Snow White, Alice, "a classical painting" (so specific?)....

I also had a much older guy approach me when I was in Classic and started talking to me about Dita Von Teese. I dunno what he thought I had on under my dress but it certainly wasn't as fancy as he was expecting

>Wearing ouji
>Random middle school age kid comes up
>"Are you in Panic at the Disco?"

Not sure if he thought I was cosplaying as them or I was actually in the band.

"You look like something from a Salvador Dalí painting." an older man in a brown suit told me at a literature expo

>>9601076
I am rolling! I seriously need to visit the U.K.

>>9600547
I've had the "big ass" comment too, twice. The first time I was wearing a very streamlined A-line VM piece, no bustle or anything. The second time I was wearing a rectangle skirt with minimal poof and the guy accused me of trying to look like a black woman with my gold iPhone and "fake ass".
>??????????

>>9601184
That's really nice.

Not super weird but I had twin braids so some lady nudged her husband and went "Look at that nice Pippi Longstocking!"

Granted, we're near Sweden so it's a slightly more common iconic character here.

>>9600422
Maybe she was referring to one of the characters who often wear cardigans and floral dresses in bright colors?

>>9601307
ot, but something about this photo really fucking irks me.
it's like a poster for that super entitled nerd guy fantasy of being doted on by some gentle blob of unconditional affection (read: 2nd mother) while living a completely self-centered, immature, and irresponsible lifestyle.
sorry, that unexpectedly triggered me to no end.

I wore a pink sweet coord to a local con, APs colorful sherbert
>omg i love your sylvion cosplay!

Bitch where

>>9601272
All I ever get in my part of the UK is people that think we're a hen party trying to humiliate the bride.

One time an elderly woman came up to us after getting with an argument with her old lady friends about whether we were a hen party or not, and was super smug when we told her we weren't because she used to be a seamstress and said she could tell quality. That was pretty cool, but otherwise I seriously don't get how we apparently look the same as a bunch of drunk middle-aged women in hot pink tutus, slogan T-shirts and cowboy hats waving an inflatable willy around.

>>9601328
Fun fact: that's exactly how their relationship works in the series. I feel the same way desu.

>>9600422
>selling butter
I'm okay with that

>>9601153
i have gotten Gerard Way a few times

let's form a pop-rock cover band

>>9601462
Isn't their relationship the typical sitcom thing where he constantly fucks up and she's constantly yelling/getting upset over him fucking up?

>>9601735
We'll carry on

Taylor Swift.

I mean, I was wearing a blonde bob wig, but I am a 5'1, pale as milk chick with green eyes. ._.

>wearing very toned down classic IW coord
>usually don't get any shit for this outfit because it could be mistaken for vintage
>even my grandma approves of it, and my grandma HATES lolita
>two Italian tourists spot me in the bus
>confer in Italian for a few minutes before turning to me and chanting
>"COSPLAY COSPLAY COSPAY COSPLAY"
>mfw I have no face
>they were probably just excited, but ouch

>>9601462
Nayrt but god, I really hate BBT. I don't understand why my bf keeps watching it, but he watches it without headphones and I kinda want to strangle him every time.

>>9601749
She sounds exactly the same as his mother when she yells at him, which doesn't happen nearly as often as it should

>>9601328
Unconditional affection until everything boils over and she gets pissed

Most of the eps I've seen she's yelling at him

>>9601088

It's a Brit and Ireland (possibly Aussie and Kiwi) thing, there are bins full of candy that are sold by weight and you fill a paper bag with what you want

Back in college I got Downton Abbey a lot. I'm classic and favour jewel tones, but I still didn't quite get it. Edwardian fashion is long straight lines whereas even a toned down classic (forgive me for I went pettiless during finals season because it was hot and I was lazy) still has some flair to the skirt.

Abd once when I was riding my bike some drunk businessmen started humming the Wicked Witch tune from Wisard of Oz, but honestly they were so drunk and it was so silly I had to laugh, too.

>>9601894
I was stuck in a country where it was between BBT and Friends, BBT was, comparably, funnier. You have to be in an isolated community in the mountains with literally nothing else to watch to enjoy it.

Coming back to the US and watching it as anything other than background noise was boring, though. I don't get the frothing hate for it, but it really is just a very generic sitcom.

>>9601894

Italians are kind of dickish. I guess it's their culture or something, but I tended to get the most harassment in Italy.

>>9601894
I'm from Italy and I must say that Italians know nothing about lolita. We still have cosplayers who call a Misa Amane outfit "lolita fashion" and show it at conventions. Our community is pretty big and we try to explain as much as possible how this fashion works, but people just don't get it. For them, we will always be cosplayers or, in some cases, halloween/carnival entusiasts.

>>9600900
I didn't but some other people asked her what she was going on about, she was American so I'm not sure if she was thinking ''I KNOW THIS IS AN EPISODE OF 'WHAT WOULD YOU DO?', WHY ELSE WOULD YOU BE DRESSED LIKE THAT?!''

Wore a vintage dress from the 1960's (I don't wear lolita). Some girls at a bar assumed I was a friend of a local ita blogger because "similar style".
Thanks, gals!

today some people yelled "pikachu!" multiple times at us. my friend was wearing and oldschool bxw coord and i was wearing whip magic in black. how do normie brains even work? like how did they make that connection?

>>9603504
My mom thinks Pikachu is some catch-all term for anime or pretty much anything from Japan. Was the person yelling a middle aged white lady in a really colorful blazer?

>>9600165
Someone once asked me if I was a waitress while I was wearing something similar to pic related. I can kind of see it, if I was in a tea shop with old-fashioned uniforms or something (although there weren't any nearby).

I was bracing myself for people to ask if I was dressed as a maid but, weirdly, nobody did. Maybe all of the people who thought it was a maid costume were too polite to ask.

>>9600645
fuck me now im re watching red dwarf

>>9602096
im an expat brit living in nz, been to aussie a few times
weirdly enough they don't call it pick and mix, mostly bc its a shit combo of even shiter sweets
no flumps, flying saucers, dolly mix, pear drops, cola cubes... fuck i miss real sweets

>>9606166
I'm glad my insulting comparison inspired somebody.

Someone called me snow white and asked if I'm visiting my grandmother.

I'm black.

>>9606185
I think they meant red riding hood. That's super cute regardless

>>9606185
People trying so hard to make sense of lolita that they spectacularly mess up basic fairytales will always be funny to me.

>>9600165
Hello Kitty. Wasn't wearing any cat motifs or pink

>>9600796
you got mistaken for a fucking youtube prankster

>>9606185
So what if you're black? It's like if no one points out your skin color (i.e., treat you "equally"), it's brought up, anyway. Thus, you're projecting your own internal racism.

You can't fucking win.... either way, you get fucked.

I got asked if I was in a production of the Miracle Worker once.
Seriously they straight up thought I was Helen Keller I guess.

>>9606276
Anon pointed it out because she was called Snow White.

>>9606185
>>9606244
People mess up fairytales at me all the time and it's never not funny.
>hey Cinderella, where are your sheep?
idk man maybe the wolf ate them

>>9606276
Snow White's one defining feature is that's she's as white as snow. It's the skintone equivalent of someone yelling "hey little red riding hood" at someone who is not wearing red nor any kind of hood.

Strangest thing I've ever been called was a butt pirate by a random drunk tourist who happened to be walking by me and my comm.

Went to see Phantom of the Opera when dressed in sweet classic (blouse/pink floral skirt combo, heart bag, straw boater). Got mistaken for one of the actresses. No one in the play was wearing anything like I was wearing

>>9606304
>butt pirate
Is this some sort of half-remembered version of arse bandit? Did he think you were a gay dude?

>>9600841
I know I sure fucking don't.

I don't know if you know this but some of us here are in our 30's and have grown far away from that.

>>9602096
It's an Europe thing. Every country in the EU has pick and mix.

>>9606276
quit trying to derail what is actually a decent thread.

I've never gotten guesses as wild as weird as these in this thread. It's literally limited to stuff like
"Oh are you having a party?"
"Is that some sort of traditional dress or...?"
"Nice antique dress!"
"Is that some anime/goth stuff??"
Like, I never get asked stuff about red riding hood, bo beep, gay harry potter, pick n mix or whatever has come up in these discussions. Never.
But then again I live in a country where people like to mind their own business and generally spouting incoherent crap and weird reference-y comments at strangers and their appearance is frowned/looked down upon, even if it wasn't ill-intended. Like people think only drunks or reaaally exceptionally dense and noisy people do it.
I don't want to sound like a spoilsport but .... especially UK normies (out of all the normies of Europe and compared to the normies of my country) sound like a pissy bunch who find it important to comment anything about any passing person out loud. That's just what it sounds like. Comes off as rude t b h ....

>>9606424
Yeah, it's not like there are bunch of 18-22 year olds on this planet who momentarily have to live at home because of ciRcuMSTaNCES??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Use your brain woman.

>>9606424
Sad. Most people continue being on friendly terms with their parents up until they die.

Been mistaken for a crossdresser a few times when in sweet because apparently actual women would never wear something so frilly. I got a manly jaw and broad shoulders
>>9606474
>>9606460
Let's not derail the thread. Don't respond to bait

>>9606449
I think the UK just has a lot of active lolitas, so there are more chances of people having bumped into weirdos.

I posted a couple of the Brit comparisons in this thread and 99% of the time I just get reactions in your post. The funny ones are notable because they're rare, and I've only had a handful in three years of wearing lolita frequently.

>>9606449
It's strange, everything you said sounds wonderful, but something about your post makes your country seems like one of those depression riddled Nordic ones where people are absolutely terrified of making eye contact with one another or god forbid making conversation.

I'm putting my money on Finland.

>>9606479
I don't have either of those (but i am tall) and have been mistaken for a crossdresser as well.

>>9606449
It's rude as fuck no matter where you are, but normies tend to see people with weird or uncommon styles as non-human and their clothes and hair as public property. In my country people on whiter neighborhoods always seem to think it's okay to touch black people's hair for example, it's ridiculous

>>9606426
America has it too, it amuses the hell out of me because my local store has a can with a massive dead bolt on it to try and cut loss on people who just take a single piece, which they say is a quarter or something

>>9603508
>>9606250
This. Many people either go the fairytale association route, and if you don't strikingly look like snow white/elsa/whatever they just call out what comes to mind. Hence, Bo-peep, Snow White, etc, even if you don't look like them.

The other common connection is a spark that the fashion is somehow connected to Japan. I usually hear "oh they're in cosplay!!!!" or random shit like "is that the kawaii", "anime?", or "do you watch anime?". Hello Kitty and Pikachu are funny but not that much of a stretch if that's all they've got.

The instinct to assume Lolita is a costume is very natural though and I can't blame most people for it. A young-ish child once asked me, "Who are you?" and I just replied, "I'm me! Who are you?" He then asked his mother and I if he could touch the dress and I said it was fine, so he gingerly petted it like it was a baby sheep or something. The point is, even young kids are a bit indoctrinated on the disney princess wagon and make assumptions.

>>9600648
yo anon I play Pokemonm tcg too and wear Lolita, but I've never mixed the two. That's cool that you wear it to events. Where are you located? I'm in (the place where worlds is going)

A lolita pokemon trading card meetup seems too good to be true. There must be others...

>>9600558
Lady at the grocery store said "oh you're wearing that japanese fashion... l..l-... lala loopsie? no, ... mmm..."

They sound similar too I guess so I give points to anyone who can get that close. She knew what she was trying to say.

Not really a comparison but I get "what character is that supposed to be?" a lot

>>9602694
Italian here. It's so true unfortunately, I don't wear much lolita, I prefer to wear daily 'no specific style jfashion' or toned down larme and for this I don't get much insults. Here most people rarely wear any alt fashion unless you live in bigger cities or don't dare wear creative fashionable outfits.

>>9600177
Happened to me too, I was the anon in another thread who got a grayson perry comparison wearing Cinderella bunny in purple with a long blonde wig and pink shoes.
I was also on a day out another time with my friend when I was wearing a plain sax blue cotton jsk when at first a guy (who seemed mildly out of it) gave us a compliment, then followed us down the street, asking if my friend and I were getting married? I can't remember what else he said.

My boyfriend in Ouji.
"Oi Alice!"

>>9606460
Someone sounds mad that they had to move back home due to ~circumstances~
lol

>>9606424
Either you have shitty parents or you are a shitty child.

>>9606665
is it hard being tall and into Lolita?

>>9607314
they overreacted but its not bad a thing if your parents are willing to help.

I promised i would never move back home and cause a financial burden but i was super duper mentally and physically ill and not in shape to live alone. I lived with my rents for a bit and did treatment and i'm better for it. I probably could have toughed it out but I have no doubt that would have ended in addiction or suicide or sthg

>>9607358
Yeah. Lots of older pieces are too short on me (and I love old school) and plenty of otks fit more like utks and make my legs look weird

>>9600799
Parents don't suddenly die when you turn 18 and most people don't abandon their whole family once they move out.
There is such a thing as family gathering when you grow up, y'know.

>>9607327
Bitching about your parents making a joke about your obscure Japanese fashion after passing 15 years of age makes you a shitty child and a failure as an adult...

>>9600711
if you dont get british humour anon, that's ok. However if you're british, I guess life must suck for you.

>>9608801
My first couple of years there were miserable until I understood this is just generally how you guys are.

Frankly, once you stop taking yourself so seriously and go along with it, it's actually really fun. You know who your friends are when you can trust each other so much that you can give each other constant crap and laugh about it.

Now it's taking me a while to get used to Americans who take everything very seriously and get personally offended over everything.

>>9608736
What the fuck are you talking about?

>>9608801
>implying I'm the only Brit in the world who doesn't like Little Britain
sure anon

>the doll on my grandma's bed that gave me nightmares
>church lady
>grieving widow from the olden days
>amish witch
>one of those girls from that cult with Warren Jeffs
>pervert
>the pope's daughter
>toilet paper doll
>some fucked up victorian looking shit
and my favorite
>ladybaby

>>9609093
>The pope's daughter
Too many questions about this one.

>>9607358
NAYRT but
>long sleeves never fit
>OPs rarely fit
>blouses never fit
>babydoll tops never fit
>otks are always only knee highs
>tights never fit
>if you got small tits, doesn't matter how cute you are, based on your lack of tits and height alone people will think you're a drag queen/crossdresser/sissy
>pictures taken by people shorter than you will look like shit 80% of the time
>unless you are underweight or damn close to it you will not be able to zip up most Japanese clothing

I actually left the fashion because I just felt so gigantic and like I could never be cute due to my height.

>>9600286
I've had this before a few times!
I was told by a completely random lady on the street 'You look like one of those Japanese manga dolls!' and I was wearing pic related?
I don't even wear lolita (yet) just daily jfashion and I'm white af...
That said when I moved to Japan I got a lot of positive attention from store staff so it boosted my confidence that I was doing something right.

>>9609093
This really cracks me up, I can't even imagine what an Amish witch would look like

>>9608801
I'd agree with this if I hadn't met so many Brits who can dish it out but can't take it.

>>9609093
Most of these are goals to be honest

>>9609093
>the doll on my grandma's bed that gave me nightmares
Goals desu

>>9608491
how tall are you though? like how tall is tall for Lolita?

>>9600233
Sorry Anon, couldn't help but chuckle at this.

>>9600288
Why are normies so retarded sometimes, from using the words in sentences, how do they not infer from context that "manga" and "anime" are nouns like book or cartoon? What the fuck is wrong with these people.
>Essentially saying shes dressing like those comics. I think she wants to be a movie.

>>9607358
It really depends on a lot of factors. I'm 5'10 and average weight and the only issues I've struggled with from >>9609323's list is long sleeves and tights not always fitting. Having a small frame and being on the thinner side definitely helps, but most of it is knowing what suits you and who makes it.

Back when I lived in the Deep South I got asked if I was on my way to a square dance pretty frequently. After a few times I started doing a little jig in response. They'd usually laugh, I'd laugh, and we'd go on our merry way.

>>9609385
My driver's license says 5'8", which isn't even that tall. My legs are disproportionately long compared to my torso though and I have broad shoulders

>>9609619
>only thing out of that list is long sleeves not fitting

I'm just imagining a twig with a very long torso, stubby legs and boobs up to your damn neck if that's the only thing on the list that effects you

>>9609779
Your reading comprehension needs a bit of work. Legwear was one of the things I have issues with.

I am thin and pretty flat though, so my lack-of-boobs rarely affects how the bodice sits. It also really helps to be classic because IW and VM pretty regularly produces tall-friendly cuts.

I wore lolita to a screening of Grey Gardens and people were congratulating (???) me on my "costume." I set myself up for that one though lol.

>Friend and I wearing full on 2010 OTT sweet shit. I forget what I was wearing but friend was wearing Magical Etoile in navy
>We stop into a grocery store to get some snacks
>waiting in line
>old white guy behind us asks if we are wearing traditional german wear or some shit
>?????

>>9601027
Be happy that he does NOT know what is is. Omfg.

>>9609690
Oh, that's really cute!

>>9610756
Why? She could have said its a Japanese dress or even a costume, surely?

>>9609690
I get asked if I'm clogging or square dancing pretty often.