/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9969922
Yeah, I am, though I'm unsure how much age has to do with this kinda stuff. It's a really strange feeling to be so afraid of the groups and esp the ita thread, but it's probably something to do with my crippling fear of getting torn apart thanks to several pretty awful experiences where exactly that happened (with every hobby I've gotten into- first with art, then with cosplay) so I'm very, very, very careful it doesn't happen again with lolita. So far things seem to be going okay, and I am definitely enjoying the fashion at least for now. Re: comm-- I'm still so new and anxious I haven't actually figured out how to get into my local comm, just been quietly lonelita-ing for the last year. I think I'll ask around in the stupid questions or comm thread later now that you've reminded me, though...

>>9971415
I-I just want to be the little girl. ;__;

>>9971973
Probably a side effect of the bad experiences I've had in the past with my other hobbies I mentioned above. I feel like hearing the worst/harshest possible criticism will give me an idea of the lower bound of how I'm doing (compared to asspat sugarcoat niceness). If gulls don't hate it to death, maybe even think it looks okay, I'm surely doing something right. I wouldn't dare to dish out that same stuff to other people for lolita (since I'm so new), though for stuff I'm more proficient in like drawing I try to be straightforward and constructive as politely as possible, usually with positive comments about something to soften the blow.

>>9972300
That hoopskirt in the pic on the right has been my ideal poof amount I've found so far after having bought a few lacking pettis and this gargantuan hoopskirt. It was just too much poof for me. I couldn't fit through door frames. (Also plz no crit for this coord because it isn't a coord, I just wanted to demonstrate the absolute unit hoopskirt and going barefoot and bare-wrist felt wrong)