/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

made a cosplay of the Doll from Bloodborne years ago. the skirt has since become a daily wear piece because it's a plain black skirt with a little white trim, nothing special. It's since has a little extra black fabric to make it floor length to resist winter drafts, gotten paint spots and rips, it's just a shabby skirt, right? the problem is im so used to lolita that it's second nature to put a petti under a skirt, so the low levels of poof make my skirt apparently A Big Deal. I'm attracting so much attention with my skirt all of a sudden and i'm so aware that it's shabby that it always feels like bad attention. It's not even attention grabbing like lolita, so it feels like getting stared at for no reason which makes me testy. Plus people have been pointing it out anytime i wear it outside and get in my face about it. I absolutely hate this. Someone made a comment today and I thought they were being juvenile and insulting me (i've heard "so what are you supposed to be?" in a snide tone too many times, so sue me) so i instantly retaliated. Only to hear them discussing with their daughter that they weren't sure what went wrong and they thought i was a Christmas caroler. I instantly felt like an asshole.
I'm retiring the skirt, might turn it into something, might just chuck it. Idk

>in b4 you wear lolita fine but can't deal with this?
There's a difference between knowing you look nice and getting attention and being stared at and people making comments over a nondescript article of clothing