/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8374739
Interesting idea. I think it's a bit of both, since lolita in general came from natural-kei some were always there, especially to begin with. Lolita classifications are kind of... made up. If you were to classify it based on the anatomy off the outfit it WOULD be somewhere between sweet and classic, but it's also inspired by the girly natural kei fashions of the past, and cute characters like Ann of Green Gables. It's more of a trope thing/ the idea of a cute country girl (a romanticised idea which probably became a thing in the natural-kei era) than what was big at the time, since the biggest popularity of natural kei was a few decades before lolita and the 90s- early 2000s was pretty 'minimalist', I guess (mori has made the aesthetic popular again now).

Modern takes like sugary sweet country with red gingham, fruits and matchy shoes aren't really visually similar.
I love this pattern in ONS 6!