Lolita Fashion

[Guest adanie46]

So does anyone else love frill and floof? I live in a town with a pretty active group of lolitas but I've been hesitatn to join them. There is both an age barrier and a mental block. I'm transmasculine but present as androgyne. In this presentation though I do not alway feel the need to "be androgynous". In other words, I'll wear gendered clothing from whatever gender because don't think that changes who I am. This has gotten me a lot of push back though. Even from other TG folk.

I worry the lolita crowd in my town will be that way too. Every interaction I've had with members has been less than pleasent and the style has really moved along since I was last in the mix. We were all into dark gothic or victorian elegant. Now things are candy sweet and covered in cakes or pastries! I would love the network though, but I'm really not ready for the "but if your a girl, who wants to be a boy, why do you dress like a girl " conversation.

So I was wondering. Who out there proudly wears their floofy fluffy frill, and how do your local lolis handle it? What's the lolita culture like in your town?

[Guest plasticspoon]

Still super gothy around here n~n I guess. I've switched schools a few times here and in every one of them, girls love checkered stuff and fingerless gloves. There's still a poof of pink once in awhile, but mostly it's non emo folk falling in love with the emo look and blowing it up to look even MORE emo, which isn't a bad thing :3. Maybe that's why gothy boots with straps on them suddenly jumped to $70 around here o.O

I'd kill for some black and white striped fingerless gloves o.o

[Guest adanie46]

Good to know! I sew most of my own and I currently have been felling brave and thinking of making some boots.

I think some people I know were just up in Philly for a meet-up. I'll have to look up some pics and see what they were wearing. I'm down south some maybe that's why the style has turned so different. Ever since they open the Baby store int eh US I've seen more decora and sweet loli than anything else around here. Have you been to the website sockdreams? They have all sorts of cool gloves and arm warmers.

[Guest plasticspoon]

Grrr, I put up a post but it just wouldn't save for some reason D:

Make boots? o.o

I'll check it out n-n thanks!

The hardest things for me to find are tops for some reason. I also get carried away on wishlists over certain websites :3 one outfit I put together said it cost $400-something Dx If only I had the money.

My inspiration is Megaromania o.o some band from Japan my bf showed off to me one day. He gave me a youtube link to their song Quintessence Voyage, and wow they were all so pretty and gothy and stuff, I was mad jealous (still am). Then he told me they were all boys o.o my face melted

[Guest adanie46]

Yeah, Japan has mastered the gender bending scene in the music industry. Right down to voices. An all male group Moonstream, came to a con I was at last year and boy was I shocked to hear the vocal flexibility. They were dressed in elegant gothic style too.

[Guest plasticspoon]

I should definitely look them up and maybe learn Japanese and move to Tokyo o.o watashi no namhae...namae... wa... something I forget Dx