/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10020643
you are responding to me, OP

i think old school lolitas tend to care more about where the fashion came from and the direction is has gone. i don't think modern lolitas are less dedicated, but they probably don't care as much about the history behind it; the GLB and livejournal and all that.

classic lolita might be into it for the victorian aspect, gothic lolitas could just like the silhouette and consider themselves more goth than lolita, sweet could be in it for the kawaii culture or otome, and any of them could have come over from a cosplay background. I guess I think that oldschool is the most distinctly lolita, and they are more reliably invested in lolita - though not always, and it becoming trendy really hurts this argument.

It has something to do with >>10020147 the way lolita has evolved, or degenerated, depending on who you ask, into something very different. If you showed a lolita from 2002 a coord from 2018, I don't know if they would recognize it as the same style at all.

My saying older items were better quality is separate from how I think prints are bad. A tasteful print on nice fabric is a holy grail, for sure.

im digging looking for old ouji