/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9897920
In my experience, many people don't really understand what makes fairy kei what it is (this is no ones fault, to be honest, there's no real guide to the fashion, and many people take certain liberties with it), and incorporate decora elements too much, use too many neons rather than pastels, and i find a lot of fairy kei isn't feminine here. About 4 years ago, when I first found the lord (Nile perch) i loved the childlike motifs and the idea of girlhood incorporated in it.
In the west, it has gradually become more likely to see men wearing the fashion, or the trend of demiboys. They wear it with pants and incorporate creepy cute motifs like bats, or eyeballs, or skull hands and too many prints have hard blacks. I think here fairy kei has become heavily mixed with creepy cute because of the influence of people like pastelbat, who kinda merged the two to form her own style. Many people were doing that, though. Brands like milklim were heavily used and although i love milklim, i feel like you can't really use only milklim to form an outfit, but people were really doing that. I know a lot of people complain about the fact it's boring, but the fact sets exist in lolita, to me is a godsend to westerners who aren't very creative. I feel like a lot of coords lack that creative edge, it's like, milklim dot skirt, big plate sweater, angelic pretty skirt, hair bow, done. And over the top fairy kei is just decora. Plus often people use split wigs, which i find distasteful, but that's imo. It kinda removes the idea of youthfulness to me when someone wears a bright yellow twintail wig, or when someone has neon blue short hair.
To kinda bring it together, i think the fact fairy kei wasn't really regulated by rules, and because its similar to other jfashions, many people mixed them together unintentionally and created their own styles or different styles but still call it fairy kei and still tag it as that and sell it as fairy kei.