/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8957409

There's a fair number of lolita dresses that can be styled almost normally if you take away the petti/use a flat petti, regular shoes instead of tea parties, no giant head-eating bows. Takes a bit of practice and experimentation to find what looks good, and it does lack the poof to be properly lolita, but you'll be able to wear your lolita dresses without attracting too much attention, so it's an easy way to still be collecting and wearing pretty dresses. Then when the rare meetup or con rolls around, just dress things up with the right petti, blouses, headbows, etc, and you'll still have a full lolita outfit. You can take a look at otome styling (where they overlap with casual lolita) if you want to go this route to continue wearing your dresses casually.

If your thing is the full lolita look or OTT lolita then I guess you could try doing it like the cosplayers, arrange for photoshoots and have a really nice collection of photos for yourself instead of focusing on socialising and meetups.