/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9309821
To be fair, Dido Elizabeth Belle's case is much more of an extreme exception than the norm for Georgian England, and (as far as I can tell) she was never formally given a title because she was illegitimate. Black people existed in Europe during the 18th and 19th century, but there weren't that many of them that were both affluent and whose paintings/photographs are readily available today.

That being said, it shouldn't stop anyone from wearing lolita. There probably are as many examples of primary sources depicting Asian women wearing 18th and 19th century European fashion, but that hasn't stopped any Japanese or Chinese lolitas.