/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10454919

I don't see the overlap, to be honest. Most historical costumers care about the historical accuracy, but lolita just actively does not give a fuck. Btssb's robe a la francaise being prime example, the thing is so far removed from its original namesake it's pretty much an entirely modern princess dress with a back cape attached. It's fine as a lolita dress, and a piece of history besides (shimotsuma monogatari dolls were released wearing it), but if you tried to insert it into historical costuming it just isn't.

I really don't see many lolitas ever being interested in historical accuracy, heck a good repeat topic is whether or not girls wear bloomers under their dresses, do you think they care what time period bloomers are suitable on top of that? So much so that if someone had to trade in the "rules" in return for nitpicking over an entirely different topic that most lolitas don't care about, I'd say they were in the wrong hobby to begin with.

This >>10454882 though. If the historicals were going into making lighter dresses that blends in easily with modern dresses, they might end up approaching something like Moon Afternoon. It's interesting, though I also think they're unlikely to buy burando. They've been making stuff for so long I can't imagine they'd buy commercial, and anyhow it's easier to imagine they might buy something old-fashioned from a local company, than look overseas at some Japanese company for it.