/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9023011
nah my own chain starts with >>9011471 if you want to see my own perspective. genre bending is great, but i have talked goth vs sweet and goth vs classic to death in the past, and am curious now about sweet vs classic. it is the one "main 3" distinction i have not hammered out for myself.

to try to sort my thoughts on the matter out...

one of my assumptions about sweet is that it has a higher level of overall kawaiiness and/or cartoonishness, which is one reason babydoll (or doll-like) dresses with cute, perky shapes read sweet to me no matter what the color or motif is (e.g. happy smiling anime ghosts appear in goth-ish but firmly sweet prints). classic's prints and general styling is more like an illustration than a cartoon, and even when OTT manages to look more "introverted" than sweet, if that makes sense. many (NOT all) of IW prints fall into this illustration side, while there is a decidedly cartoonish bent to the AP prints i am familiar with.

if i were to associate emotions with the three substyles (regardless of the attitude of the wearer), joy or friendliness comes to mind for sweet, while patience or nostalgia comes to mind for classic (and melancholy or passion comes to mind for gothic).

thus coords like >>9022973, with the vintage/scrapbook-looking print and plain styling, tend to read as classic to me. but i don't have strong convictions about it, that's just an impression.

anyway

here is another black sweet coord to stay useful.