/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10198379
I don't hate Larme, I like the aesthetic and read the magazine for info but cgl turned it into something it's not.

>There is no lolita lifestyle

Not true. Even GLBs featured "a day in a lolita life" articles and stuff, its not mandatory and most people don't follow it, but lolita and gyaru both had a concrede ideal "identity" that most people following it wanted to achieve.

>that larme is focused around a magazine means there are far more lifestyle components to the style than any other jfashion.

Larme-kei is like saying Popteen-kei or Kera-kei, it doesn't make sense, it's just a magazine with an aesthetic that isn't all that specific, you can't make a larme handbook, theres no "rules" like with lolita. Larme is just an offshoot from neo-gyaru and amoji-kei style. Its trends catering to one general aesthetic, like most of gyaru style was too.

This scan from popteen places the trend as being the style for 2013/2014.

larme is like how the western community misunderstood what otome kei was.