/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

In the world of the extremely wealthy, lolita is meager stuff. It's nowhere near the price of actual designer goods, so I don't think you can think of lolita in terms of how the extremely rich can buy it- it's small change to them.

I also don't think it's very hard to save up and collect it even if you're not super well-off. Of course, if you're younger and or don't have financial support, it's a different situation, but if we're talking about comparing it to how much people spend on fast fashion or normal clothes, it's not that crazy. I accumulated a large-ish wardrobe in a pretty short period of time, despite being a student and working part time (and to be fair, didn't pay rent at the time), because I stopped buying clothes that wasn't lolita. Of course, fast fashion is cheaper, but someone's probably prone to buy more of it and treat it in a more disposable manner. And mid-range clothing in a department store is pretty comparable to lolita prices. It helps if you're not chasing after the newest AP release all the time, too; buying cheap secondhand was a godsend to me when I had a tighter budget, and now I'm a little more picky and might opt to buy one new dress instead of three used ones just because they happen to be cheap. I'm not well-off and I kind of have a shit job in an expensive city, but it's not impossible to accumulate large wardrobe if you kind of forgo some other stuff.