/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10630835

Happy new year gulls! Here's to a better year!

>>10044066
> when did you discover lolita? how old were you?
It was fall 2013 and I was 18, looking for something to buy for the local renaissance festival. I was cheap so I started looking on Ebay and saw one of those victorian dress sellers. I worried if they were actually selling what they had images of and tried to research. Found Fan+Friend somehow, buying something hideous there, and I remember finding EGL after that winter when doing more research. Sadly I missed the heyday of the site.

I did follow Versailles hard during their debut years but I just never realized those kinds of clothes were actual things you could wear.

> what substyle first interested you?
Classic, VM and MM especially. While I really liked gothic too it took a while for me to get over my internalized anti-goth stigma.

> what was your first dream dress? did you ever get it?
I don’t remember how good my definition of “dream dress” was, but I adored Nameless Poem’s first release and it was the first ever dress I bought (on the second release) since I wanted it so badly. Later trawled through Lolibrary and made a list of dream items. Ended up in the next two years getting AatP’s Le Petit Chaperon Rouge JSK in green and IW’s Rose Panel JSK in black. I’ve always loved Puppet Circus but I don’t let myself think about that, lol.

> first brand dress?
IW’s Vilma OP in navy, bought it in 2015. I had bought some small brand stuff but never owned a non Taobao dress until that moment.

> did any particular coords, pics, media, etc make you fall in love with lolita?
I wish I could remember, just lots of VM and MM dresses. Buttcape’s 2015 wardrobe post heavily inspired me getting into gothic and still does.

> how have your tastes changed?
Realizing that instead of getting all of the Taobao I just wanted to focus on cut/quality. I now buy and wear mostly printless items. I still admire MM but accepting that I probably won’t fit the brand after years of looking at it is hard.