/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

I'm an oldfag. While *obtaining* lolita pieces is significantly easier, especially for a good price, than it was ten years ago, I think that finding your place in lolita, learning the rules, and being able to participate in discussion and make mistakes is probably more difficult.

When we were all on egl it was a central hub and a community. We had tons of "guides" and "what is lolita" and would parrot things like "check the sidebar" and "check the memories." These days there is no such community and there aren't really those same resources anymore. Also, since there aren't really discussion forums now, it's all through social media, everything that you do is attached to your name and your face.

There was always getoffegl, and /cgl/ has been around for like 12 years or something now, but it still seems like there was so much more space for newbies to figure things out and learn from global discussion and reliable sources.