/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9904111

"Easy", because it's easy to wear -- something that you throw on quick so you can go lie down on the sofa all day, rather than spend the day making sure you’re sitting up straight so you don’t skew your fussily-collared blouse. Maybe the word "lazy" could also have been used. Everything else about your outfit says you stood in front of the mirror carefully putting it on, making sure the ribbons are tied, the bonnet is properly placed, the socks aren't skewed, etc etc. And then a blouse that says you just wanna be lazy today, that's why it looks jarring.

The peter pan collar actually adds to this effect, a real lolita blouse with peter pan collar would have a much smaller and higher neckline, as you said, it’d be fussy, maybe even hot and uncomfortable, sort of like how you need to have your hair a particular way in order to wear a bonnet, that’s also a fussy detail. Wide necklines can work with lolita, but wide peter pan collars just have a very lazy vibe that just doesn’t work across all lolita outfits.

You don’t have to stick to high necks, wide necks with frills instead of a Peter Pan collar will generally work better. Wide neck Peter Pan blouses will work in casual coords instead of fussy coords like this one. Pair it with a half-shirred poofy skirt or throw a salopette on over it. Or, if you like jsks, throw something like AP's casual summer jsks over it, put your hair up in a no-fuss ponytail with a scrunchy, and it'll work. Just not in this coord with everything else being so fussy-looking.

If the weather is hot, I'd suggest a lace blouse as another alternative. Lots of airy ventilation while giving you that prim and proper high collar.

You don’t have to change the ribbon on the dress, in fact I didn’t say you should. I just mention it because even if it’s attached to your dress and not your fault that it’s pink, it’s still something that helped swing the balance towards pink rather than red.