Coord for a book fair
Headdress: Atelier Pierrot
Blouse: Innocent World
JSK: Angelic pretty
Necklace: Moi Meme Moitie
fredericks30days day 8: How do you dress when you don’t wear Lolita?
I'm skipping day 7, what’s your favorite patterns in lolita, since I don't have any favourite patterns.
When I dont wear lolita, I often look like a potato and only wear what is comfortable (oversized sweatshirts and sweatpants). But if I do want to dress up and dont feel like wearing lolita, then I wear other j fashion styles like jirai kei, nanchatte seifuku, subculture or j punk.
Some of my jirai coords:
My subculture coords:
And a seifuku coord:
#fredericks30days Day 6: Are there popular lolita things you tend to dislike for your own style?
I don't really follow any trends generally. One thing that a lot of lolita like that I don't use for my own style are underskirts. They just make me look even shorter than I already am. I also don't wear a lot of accessoires like a lot of other lolitas do, though I like how they look on other people.
fredericks30days Day 3: Are there fashions / aesthetics / styles outside lolita that influence your lolita style?
Some of my coords are obviously influenced by maid aesthetics.
I would love to make my wa coords more kimono-like at some point, but right now, I don't have the right items for that.
There are a lot more styles and aesthetics I enjoy, but I wouldn't integrate them into my lolita style.
fredericks30days Day 2: What are your biggest dream dresses?
My biggest dream dresses at the moment are:
Lace ribbon OP from Moitie
Hawase doll set from Baby, the stars shine bright
Lace Frill JSK from Baby, the stars shine bright
And Millefeuille JSK from Baby, the stars shine bright.
I would also love to have these moitie beauties one day.
Lace OP
Cross Original Lace OP
Lace embroided OP
And the last one: Solid Color Raschel Lace Princess Sleeve OP
fredericks30days day 1: What substyles of lolita do you wear?
Here I am again. I'm back on tumblr. I'm taking part at fredericks30days and here is my day 1.
I wear mostly old school, gothic and bitter sweet lolita.
I often use a mix of old (2000s) and new items (from re-releases) for my old school coords.
Like in this coord, the jsk is from 2005, but the socks, headdress and blouse are from recent releases.
For gothic, I think I'm more of the sweeter kind of gothic lolita. I love older gothic main pieces from Alice and the Pirates, Angelic Pretty and Innocent World. Recently I also bought some Moitie pieces. I adore old moitie pieces, but I don't know if I will ever be able to buy one, since they are often very expensive.
Most of my gothic dresses are solid pieces, full black or black and white. I often combine collars with other one pieces.
My bitter sweet coords often feature sweet main pieces in the black colorway and a lot of lace and bows.
For this coord, I tried to tune the bright colors of the print down with the overdress.
Reblogged
Hit them with the shoujo manga filter
Request for @lunaeri
Thank you so much for drawing this!! It's absolutely adorable 💖 I love everything about it! They look so cute. And I love their outfits so much!!
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What makes Gothic Lolita ~Gothic~
This topic may be obvious to some people, but in my conversations with newer people I find that often I have to break down the difference of what is gothic lolita, and what is just a lolita dress in black. This can be tricky to explain as gothic lolita can be a lot of things, but there are certain looks and styles that are common within the style across brands that make the gothic part of lolita…
While I think this is an interesting post, I do disagree that certain dresses could “never” be gothic; I think that whether a coordinate is gothic or not depends on the styling as much as on the dress itself. The wording on whether pink dresses (and presumably this applies to pastels as a whole) can be gothic or not is confusing too as it’s not about color or styling but rather how brands refer to themselves… but this contradicts the earlier statement that gothic isn’t about whether people call it gothic but about the exact cut, details, trim, print, etc. of the dress. (But maybe I’m just not reading this correctly!)
I definitely think there’s a difference between ‘black/dark colors’ and ‘gothic’ but I don’t think it’s the clear-cut ‘AP can never be gothic’ that OP implies either. To me personally it’s about the styling of the whole coord rather than just the dress on its own;
For example, here’s a couple stylings of Holy Lantern (by laceferatu, lunaeri_neko, and spiro_j). In my opinion the first two are more goth and the latter two are much more sweet (with spiro_j’s coord definitely being sweet). Makeup, hair, and accessories do a lot to change a coord from sweet to gothic to classic, such as black lipstick and a more ‘mature’ updo or a romantic layered overskirt v pigtails and bunny ears.
Generally I do agree with OP’s thoughts on prints; I think it’s much easier to tell apart sweet v gothic prints than solid colored dresses.
(though, for example, I’d say this is a gothic teddy bear print- the photorealism v a more ‘kawaii’ art style that brands like AP tend to use, plus the greyscale making it look like an antique photograph and the dolls make it ‘gothic’ to me rather than ‘sweet’).
Overall I think lolita substyles tend to blur a lot at the margins, and part of the fun of lolita is finding ways of styling things in different ways and not necessarily having to stick to rigid ‘if it’s AP or Baby it has to be sweet’ rules. It’s also what I enjoy about oldschool lolita, how much it crosses over with all three main substyles and is also its own substyle at the same time.
I think too there’s an element of perspective; to someone who does super sweet lolita maybe none of those coords come off as ‘sweet’ at all, and a black dress has to have a very sweet print to be sweet lolita. I think the more you wear and pay attention to a certain substyle the more you can pick out little details that define it, and the stricter you can be sometimes on what does or doesn’t fit (I’ve definitely seen people say that dresses without prints aren’t ‘truly’ sweet lolita but either classic or oldschool and I don’t agree with that either).
Thank you for using my photos as references. I feel so honored!
I totally agree with strawberryteabunny. I think for people who only wear moitie or other more "core" gothic brands, maybe none of my coords is gothic lolita at all. I think everyone can have their own definition and preferences and that's fine. There's no strict lexicon definition of gothic lolita.
Anyways I was really happy that my photos still get shared on tumblr since I haven't been active here for years (which I'd like to change now).