/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10093533
This has been my frustration with the threads. I’m the OP of both, and I’ve contributed most of the content.

Personally this is the guideline I follow.

>>9552179

I always thought there was a very obvious place where they overlap, and that un-matching coords was optional, not an actual point of the fashion. I thought being un-matching was just a quick way to be quirky and eccentric, because a fully matching coord can look boring -- much like lolitas complaining about wearing fullsets.

It's soft lolita that confuses me, like did it really need a new label to it's where lolita and otome meet, or it's just the lolita rules done with non-lolita things and results that don't quite look like lolita, or just a way to get normies started in the fashion without going full escapist Victorian doll, idk.

I'd also like to add that otome commonly features quirky motifs and colors/patterns. It's definitely not as matchy-matchy as lolita.

Also inb4 is otome just casual lolita or lolita w/o a petticoat?
Yes and no. See diagram

>>7731566

>>6845252

>>6750688
I'm not an expert on this, but a bit of Googling yielded pic related. (source on image: http://fuckyeahotomekei.tumblr.com/post/16561467272/))

I've heard otome kei described as lolita without a petticoat, and it seems that a petticoat isn't required for otome but is required for lolita.