/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8890504

You missed some of the first threads on Larme, I think. Some anons (myself included) mentioned that Larme seemed to be both sexy and childish at once, in particular the childishness is partially achieved by clunky, clumsy designs that don't seem too refined. This clumsyness works in Larme as it comes across as endearingly young and inexperienced, but it works against lolita because the majority of lolita is very much polished and refined, even something like AP's sweet childish dresses are actually the end products of decades of dress releases, with weird and clumsy designs becoming unpopular and then discarded. So when something like Larme's cute inexperience is put next to lolita's polish, it's really going to look out of place.

If you aren't very good with picking up details, my personal advice is to keep the two fashions seperate. At least for now, the "cute" things in Larme tend not to work well with the "cute" things in lolita, though this might change later when Larme changes trends.

Just for the fun of it, I did do up a couple of lolita collages for the Swankiss bag anyway. With regards to this specific bag, the two key points many people have pointed out to you are flimsyness (cheap) and weirdness (aka this doesn't look like a lolita bag). So my suggestion is to embrace the two points and go fully weird and flimsy. Forget old school lolita, go entirely new and modern, so that the weirdness of the bag seems more like new fashion rather than a random object being shoved into a coord where it doesn't belong. As for the flimsyness, pair it with even more flimsy materials so that it doesn't stand out as much. Ditch the solid cottons for lace fabric, chiffon, lace tights, embroidered tights or other delicate materials. If you need to tie the look together, you can look for velvet ribbon in a matching colour at a craft store, make little bows out of them, and pin them onto your outfit, that way everything will look like it's meant to go together.