/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>Were you into lolita/jfashion 10 years ago?
Yes

>>What sites did you use then vs now?
LJ was still alive and well, I was all over that shit. I hadn’t heard of cgl at the time, though I did lurk getoffegl. A lot off the offshoot communities were thriving. My local comm was on LJ and didn’t have a fb yet. I really miss Hello Lace. I always had preferred it to Lolibrary and I miss it even more that it is not around and Lolibrary is more or less useless.

>>How has your wardrobe and style changed?
I use to do a lot of sweet in black colorway, wacky meta prints. I’m sad I let them go because they are harder to find now and more expensive. I still do sweet occasionally but in sax or white. My wardrobe is large enough to allow me to wear gothic and classic as well so I switch around depending on what I feel like wearing each day. I still have a ton of black but they are mostly solids or classic/gothic prints.

>>How do you think the community has changed?
We’ve had a hard few years of drama so the comm is quiet now, but it’s allowed for a lot of the noobs to feel more comfortable coming out. A lot of the older crowd has moved along, but there are still a few of us oldfags sticking around, sort of like the silent overlords, only stopping in to give concrit and words of encouragement.

Pic is a sample of some of the things I owned back in the day.
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