/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10397906
Western lolitas absolutely took the guidelines given by the japanese way too far.
Suggestions of wearing a blouse or headbow became hardfast rules for many years, but they were only suggestions, as a coord can be lolita with neither of those things. The community is still trying to get over the "no blouse, not lolita" mentality, it's a question regularly posted on BSoLF.
Same thing with skirts being knee length, livejournal-fags took that too far as well. They used to call anyone with a bit of knee showing an ita, and for a while rectangle headdresses were sacrilegious.
T b h a lot of it just seems like a case of mistaken translation. One of the GLB guides suggests that lolitas carry a bear with them to look cute, and I wouldn't be surprised if some retard said "now we all MUST carry a bear." And finally, don't forget the guides that came out around 2012, where claims that you ~must adorn circle lens and wig or be cast away~ were the hip idea to push. Any time a japanese mag released a guide, western weebs were there to over-analyze and obsess over it, but they didn't speak japanese and relied on google translate to assure them they were going in the right direction.