/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>7259791
I swear I need to make some delicious copypasta for this question because it gets asked every thread. Here's the quick and dirty:

For me, I like the style because it's a hyper-exaggerated caricature of Western beauty ideals. It takes femininity, sexualizes it and blows it up to an absurd extreme. Then again, my idols in childhood up were Peg Bundy, Elvira, Dolly Parton and RuPaul; the fact that I like gal isn't really that surprising.

The style itself started as a rebellion against the Japanese standard of beauty, but since Western nations are culturally and ethnically different from Japan, it obviously doesn't have the same appeal/meaning to western girls. A lot of the girls I've spoken to who have the same interest say they like it for reasons similar to my own. Some like it because it makes them feel sexy, others because they have to wear some special snowflake Jfashion to be happy and some don't give a fuck and just like the way it looks. You can like an aesthetic without it having to "mean" anything.

Also, I would argue comparing gaijin gyaru and chav/"trashy" clothing is like comparing a milk snake and a coral snake. The differences are not obvious to the untrained eye, but they exist and learning how to differentiate between the two could save your life.

>>7206334
Dropped my pic