/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10070057
Theosakaneko! I loved her coordinates! She was a true daily lolita, she dabbled I’m so many styles and tried to incorporate lolita into other fashions she was interested in like steampunk. I miss her.

>>10070057
Based IW. What is the overdress thing she has on? It's neat but I've never seen anything like that

>>10070057
I used to spend hours and hours poring over Lauran's website. I was so jealous that in golden age of old-school lolita culture, she was there in the flesh, living the dream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY5NohYHONQ

The bodyline Fruits Parlor replicas. I had the red x pink skirt back in the day and felt so cute. So did half the lolitas I knew...

>>10070120
Was she the one who had a really ugly frog boyfriend who turned out to be into gross daddy/lg stuff with her?

>>10070139

I think you're thinking of missmeganmaude?

>>10070144
She went by pui_puni, and I haven’t actually been part of the community long enough to have known her — I was remembering this thread from my very first time on cgl...
>>/cgl/thread/7217832

>>10070139

It wasn't 'gross daddy/lg' meme stuff as it was about lifestyle submission to a man to cater to his needs. Google 'humbled females,' it's downright disturbing. They treat it like a cult religion, which probably went well with her religious tendencies.

>>10070158
She wasn’t into ddlg, which I really need cgl to realize is a pretty new term that no one was using until 2015 at the soonest. Pui_Puni was deeply religious and traditional and she was a member of several submissive women libehournal communities that also tied in with D/s fetish, specifically the humbled females community. I can’t seem to find her on Facebook, but I know she was a classical singer. She’s likely just a normie religious housewife and mom now.

Whatever happened to celticfreefall? She was such a bitch, I hated her and her snapesnogger avatar as a young teenager. But recently I've been thinking about her and wondering if she was really all that bad

>>10070268
I think she's still around? I recall seeing her post on COF recently, unless I confused her with someone else.

>>10070268
>wondering if she was really all that bad

i mean most of her activity on LJ was on getoffegl, and many of the people she'd throw shots at were underage. i like snark communities as much as the next person but she was an older girl who spent most of her LJ time and effort initiating gossip about and shaming younger girls. even looking at it from several steps back she was just nasty, even if she never told anybody to kill themselves or whatever online bullies these days tend to say

>>10070268
She's in my comm and still fairly active. I didn't know her back then, but she's awesome now. She's so fun at meets.

>>10070057
I loved her too. She was very experimental, definitely ita by today's standards.
Damn I miss the mid 00's. As an old fag I swear we had much more fun back then.

>>10070136
She WAS living the dream, loved her pictures & brand collection.
Back then I was a poorfag so she was very cool, lived in Japan and the girl that had everything (without me getting jelly & salty), I looked up to her so much!

>>10070268
I can’t believe she was such a bitch and looked that awful back in the day. Even the latest coord were subpar/mediocre for the time.
No, she was a nasty cunt. I hope she grew out of it by now, but iirc she was older back then anyways. Too old to be acting like an edgy trollmeister harassing and ripping the newer/younger girls to shreads over the smallest infractions.

This thread has made me so nostalgic. I miss the LJ days so badly.

My favorites were faunkegin, iiraliina, and that one brolita who wore a lot of moitie.

>>10070476
Was that last person ManasamaTemple? I heard they decided to transition to female, I wonder if they still wear Lolita?
(I'm using "they" because idk if what I heard was true and I don't want to seem disrespectful)

Is it OK if I post my little Princess Skye archive? Her pics aren't super lolita by today's standards but they still make me so nostalgic

>>10070268
She did have a mean streak. It’s weird how she was a popular member of the livejournal community but had such subpar coordinates herself. This is how I imagine most of the really nasty members of cgl coordinate like.

>>10070488
Please! I want all of it!!

>>10070135
I'm pretty sure it's the Innocent World 2007 Shirring OP with the skirt hitched up under the corset to show off the underskirt (Theosakaneko was always really great about combining pieces in interesting ways!). If not, it's another IW OP from that era - the colorway is pretty distinctive.

>>10070533
Will do! I'm in a car though so I may lose signal and take a while to post everything

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>>10070136
Ah yes! I liked her friend (whose name I can't remember off-hand) a bit better, but they were both such goals, especially when they'd do matching coords.

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>>10070549
Ugh I want a friend or gf like this

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>>10070549
Tfw I have loads of pics with my lolita bff like this and I never post them because nowadays our images have to be very perfect and composed

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>>10070057
I miss that ifwinterends chick. Everyone hated her, but her posts stirred up the pot. I wonder why she stopped posting.

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>>10070692
Seconded. She was full of shit and at the same time was probably the most entertaining thing to happen in egl's final years.

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>>10070652
Where can I get a long dress like this? It looks so beautiful.

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>>10070704

I miss when Fanny Rosie wasn't such an ana-chan. I think she looked cuter

>>10070692
IIRC she went back to America and left her clothes with a boy toy, who sold them all to a secondhand shop

>>10070482
Yes that was their name! I've been trying for so long to remember it. If anyone knows their @, please let me know! I really looked up to them.

i loved the perma itas, like burnt_tuna, xtechnokitty, and sailorearth

i think i see sailorearth around still and she gained a bunch of weight. what happened to the other two?

>>10070765
Burnt_tuna was recently posted in the cof and ita threads, she looks pretty much the same as she always had.

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>>10070724
Yeah she looks better with a bit more weight.

>>10070482
She did.
>>10070760
_.sugar_rose._

>>10070724
Not all thin ppl are ana.

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>>10070774
she has some kind of illness, she has talked about it a couple of times. could be the source of her weight fluctuations

>>10070771
This is weirdly comforting??? Like I know we all hate on itas and want to see them grow into the fashion and get better, but there's something.... weirdly nice about her just... continuing to ita it up. Timeless

>>10070559
You sound ugly

>>10070805
By today's standards, I am, yeah.

>>10070057
This is disgusting. What did people see in this?

>>10070812
I have to respect this reply
As long as your coords are nice

I miss when lolita secrets were plentiful and funny

>>10070826
I miss it too. But the platform is broken. I used to make two or three secrets a week of jokes and memes. But since their platform became harder to use on the phone. I have gotten lesser and lesser to submitting posts. I mainly just stick to /cgl/ now since it’s phone friendly and faster paced in conversation.

>>10070724
woah

i barely recognize her

>>10070743
That's like my worst nightmare desu

>>10070826
I am shocked Lolita Secrets is still a thing. Only rediscovered it when a friend of mine got posted and was upset by it. Livejournal surely should have died long ago.

>>10070724
Wow... I never thought of her as an ana-chan before but she looks so cute and more alive in that pic... Just hoping she's OK is all

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>>10070294
Can confirm. Didn't know her back in the day but she's one of my favorite people in the comm. She's hilarious and really easy to talk to.

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>>10070120
She still has a really amazing and unique sense of style. She's much more active in the steampunk scene, but still come to a meet once in a great while if is piques her interest. Often in one of her own designs, too.

>>10070812
By today's standards anyone who hasn't filtered the shit out of their face in such a way that it literally has changed your face shape, anyone who doesn't have absolutely perfect hair, anyone who hasn't taken the perfect high quality image of themselves, is ugly. Honestly 80% of the popular people we found gorgeous and awesome 6-10 years ago, would all be considered ugly now.

I'm tired of the emphasis on absolute perfection. Please post your cute photos anon. Personally I think the "perfect" images we see are the ugly ones, things that aren't edited/facetuned/filtered to hell and back are so much nicer imo.

>>10070547
It kills me that simple coords with these types of cutsews aren't allowed on CoF anymore

>>10070966
It's just a casual coord, why wouldn't it be allowed? I've never heard about COF forbidding casual coords.

>>10070699
Not lolita, but try Gunne Sax or Favoriteone.jp

I forgot her name, but there was a girl from Australia who did himeloli and ott sweet cords. I forgot her name, but she always looked like the poster child for sweet lolita. She was also really into rave culture, and i think she turned into a rave thot after she left lolita.
Anybody remember her?

>>10070966

The real reason you don't see posts like this is because people who post to facebook want "likes", and the facebook feed itself sucks -- if the post doesn't get enough likes then the post gets buried. So you won't be shown this post even if someone did post it, and the people posting will also feel discouraged as no one sees it, and then they stop posting altogether.

It has nothing to do with CoF's purpose, only that FB's algorithm turns everything into a stupid popularity contest and will show you stuff based on what other people in your friendslist like. So if you like very obscure stuff that isn't similar to what your FB friends like, you're forever stuck with seeing all their shitty taste instead of things you actually want to see. Welcome to shitty facebook, which also asks some users to prove their real names, so they're stuck with one account and no way to create a second account so that they can curate their own feed with things they actually want to see and instead are spammed with everything else on their friendslist in one giant mess bucket.

I genuinely miss people posting on livejournal so that we don't have to deal with this shit.

>>10071032
Do you think people on daily_lolita didn’t want comments? the Facebook algorithm does make posts being seen differently, but at any time you can visit CoF directly and switch the settings so you see new posts first instead of posts with recent activity.

>>10071019
faith chan!

muier_noir

>>10071132
Comments helped build a sense of community whereas likes do not.

>>10070539
Why aren't dresses like this made anymore, fuck

I remember watching fetsu all the time back in the day when I was young . What’s her insta name now ?

>>10070724
I wish I could go back to those days of quietly admiring Fanny's coords from afar without noticing how self absorbed she actually is.
She even sounded like a better person before, now all she posts about is herself. I think the efame got to her.

>>10070783
...sure it is. I'm getting so sick of people using "I have a chronic illness" to explain being skelly. 90% of the time it's a fake excuse. With most chronic illnesses, especially things common in the community like fibromyalgia, you're way more likely to be fat than skinny. If the person claiming to be skinny due to chonic illness doesn't have something understandable like cancer, gut issues, or metabolic problems, they're probably lying and covering for an ED. What makes talking about EDs in our community so much harder than lying about chronic illness? I don't fucking understand. I know it sucks to admit our community has a weird relationship with weight. We'd like everyone to look like Mintkismet or Spiro but don't want to face up to the fact that the vast majority of people have to put in a lot of effort and take on unhealthy habits to get there. To naturally be that size is vanishingly rare. Let's stop fucking lying about it, and for fuck's sake, stop using chronic illness (real or faked) as a smokescreen to hide what's actually going on.

>>10071263
>implying ED isn't an illness
It's far more than just wishing you were skinny, and in many cases it never really goes away.

>>10071264
You are completely right, of course an ED is a serious illness! But when people try to explain that someone is skinny "because of a chronic illness", generally it's understood that they mean "a chronic illness, not an ED". It's within the context of the discussion.

>>10071032
I thought Anon was referring to garbage-chans picture being taken down. The coord with a cutsew, cute skirt, lolita sock and shoes was taken down after being attacked as "not lolita." I don't like garbage-chan but it was bullshit, she had a cute casual lolita coord

>>10071268
This, it was def. a reference to garbage-chan

>>10071263
Spiro does have an ED though. Fanny doesn’t. Actually if you look at her then her arms are chubby and now they are muscular and so her smallness may be in part being more fit. anachans get noodle arms.

>>10071273
Honestly that's fair. What ruffled my petticoat was the "ohhh but chronic illness" comment that I keep seeing people pulling out for anyone who loses a lot of weight. Fanny losing weight through exercise is more believable than her having an ED, I fully agree. It's just I also think either of those is more likely than her weight loss being due to some nebulous chronic illness.

>>10071132

Have they fixed the setting? It does nothing for me, I'm still being shown an older post before the newer ones.

>>10071279
I have this problem too

>>10071261
>now all she posts about is herself.
Since Tumblr all she posts is about herself, anon. People follow her exactly for that reason - they want to see her coords or face.

>>10071032
It's not only algorithms, CoF mods actively remove casual coords. It's happened to Garbage-chan as mentioned already as well as a few good friends of mine.

>>10070724

At least with Spiro we had fairly solid proof. With Fanny you're like "b-b-but her arms are skinny!" You guys are desperate.

>>10071291
One of the mods posts casual coords so that seems fake. Are you friends with garbage chan?

>>10071263
Some people just like to be skinny without having to explain themselves, so saying they have a chronic illness is an easy lie to get everyone off their case. I agree with you when you say probably 90% of lolitas are lying about having chronic illness, but I can't say I blame them. You can't say, "oh, I watch what I eat and restrict calories to stay slim," without anons accusing you of having an ED.

>>10071263
I have epilepsy pretty badly and take meds to prevent a seizure. The side effects of the meds are loss of appetite. Because of this I eat a lot less and dropped a lot of weight really fast when diagnosed. Instead of saying “ oh my meds affect me” I just say “ I have a condition.” Usually that translates to “ chronic illness” but really it’s just easier to say that then explain that I have medications that cause me to not be hungry all the time. So yes, sometimes when someone says they have a condition or Illness that causes their weight, don’t assume it’s ED. Some people don’t want to talk about it.

>>10071263

I think it’s unfair to accuse people without proof that they definitively don’t have a chronic illness, but that being said, anything goes. I don’t particularly mind if they say that, because the effects of chronic illness are highly variable and can be hard to explain to a layperson.

That being said nothing makes me roll my eyes harder than #spoonielife and people taking selfies of themselves in bed with their hair and makeup all done up. I want to support the movement in general but just like all other “millennial” (using term loosely and I am one) movements, it seems to be a lot about entitlement and self indulgence as much as it is about legitimate concerns about people working past obstacles no one else can see. But pretty much none of this applies to the person in question so I’ll just leave it at that.

>>10070724
I feel like now her face is more angular than when she was in her 20s. Also, she moved to Japan between those 2 pictures, so probably her diet/lifestyle changed.

>>10071302

You don't think a mod would bend the rules just to suit themselves?

>>10071472
Wouldn’t they get called out here if that was true?

>>10071473
Cgl may not forgive, but it often forgets.

>>10071302
Is your definition of casual the modern "simple basic full coord with blouse, cardigan, and tons of accessories?" Or do you mean true oldschool casual with cardigans or cutsew without a blouse under it, brand sandals, etc.?

>>10071507
nayrt but the second one.

>>10071261
that's why i follow her though (and most of the bloggers/instagrammers/etc. that i follow). if i follow someone because i admire their fashion, then i will only continue following them if their fashion is the center of their blog. i've unfollowed lots of bloggers/instagrammers because they start branching out or posting too much personal bullshit and my feed gets cluttered. fanny's content feed is perfect--she'll post a food picture or a friends picture once in a while for a little diversity but 90% of her content is her fashion and her face

>>10071263
gut issues are actually pretty common (gut issue sufferer here). it is just not socially acceptable to talk about them like it is for other issues that affect your weight.

>>10071534
My 5'nothing friend with chrons fluctuates between 39-53 kilos depending on her symptoms and meds.

I have MS and initially my meds, atrophy and hospital stays made me drop a shitload of weight over a year and a half but I'm a bit better than I was.

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The friend called herself Mistress M or just 'M' (later muier_noir). If I remember rightly, she was married to a U.S. military serviceman who was based in Japan.

Oh man, on the whole 'living the dream' thing, I was actually living in Japan around this time for a year as an exchange student. I wasn't on Honshu island however and lived in a tiny countryside town. I became aware of lolita fashion, jrock and visual bands around halfway through my stay, but whenever I cautiously brought up the subject with say, classmates I was often shut down with comments about them being freaks, not to get involved etc - the high school need to conform was real.

I once spotted gothic lolitas in the largest city on the island and was in awe. I often wonder what it would have been like to have been a part of the the lolita scene back then, even in a small way. As sad as it is, I still occasionally daydream and feel wistful about what could have been.

As it turned out, I didn't wear my first lolita outfit until early 2004 and it was yup - a bodyline lace monster.

Dumping some old coordinates, this time more from theosakaneko

>>10071638
yes some of these would be ita thread material but i do miss seeing experimentation with the fashion.

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>>10071641
switching gears now, but im blanking on her name, i think it was lauren? is this the creator of the brand ladaupine?

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>>10071644
my lolita goal is to have a wearable, daily wardrobe like this

>>10071646
now some faunkegin

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>>10071650
oseachello!

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shelbycloud

>>10071642
Swdpunk was her lj handle. God that brand and it's collapse was a bit of a mess.

>>10070692
Lol boy I remember finding that shit so hilarious. Really a highlight of the late egl years.

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>>10071655
yes thats it! was she a member of the portand comm?

>>10070798
Loool I totally get what you mean. It’s like despite all the dizzying changes to the fashion and community, at least a few things still remain the same (namely, burnt_tuna is still permaita!).

>>10071599
Ahh, I love this picture!

>>10071659
I believe so, but don't quote me on that.

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>>10071281
What I mean is that she's totally self absorbed and it shows, I don't mean her public profile since it's meant to be mostly curated anyways.
She probably reads cgl since she posted something about "representing Mana in her own style" since some anons were commenting on how she doesn't suit the brand.
For someone who doesn't seem to care what people say, she seems to care a whole lot.

>>10071666
>arguing about somebody's character based on vague statements
also being self absorbed isn't really a crime. how many gulls aren't? this kind of vendetta vagueposting happens any time a lolita with followers models desu

>>10070488
omg skye actually looks a lot like my husband wtf

>>10071364
Probably just losing the last of her “baby fat”. People’s faces tend to sharpen with age in general.

>>10070998
Mods won't allow it though

>>10071473
There's screenshots on garbage-chans' personal wank page. Not everything that happens on the internet is automatically uploaded to cgl.

>>10071654
Isn't that just fluffykawaiijo

Everyone looks so imperfect but pleasant. Does anyone have any Instagram recs for people who still post this kind of stuff?

maybe a long shot, but anyone remember Lolita in Wonderland forum? It was a spanish speaking forum, I think it died around 2007. I used to lurk a lot, but didn't interact because I didn't feel like I would fit. However it was great for inspo and tutorials.

>>10071692
>fluffykawaiijo
what? thats shelbycloud, she was a popular sweet lolita.

>>10071693
I sadly don't. even lolitas who were around back then have evolved their style into a very polished, cookie cutter look. here is some vintage mintkismet

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someone earlier mentioned faith_chann so here is a mini dump

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Now for some Lunie-chan

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Herajika

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>>10071651
Good god she's adorable. I wish I could have such a full face and still be that skinny, but nah, gaunt skelly face for me.

>>10071719
she looks like a lollipop! be thankful for your cheekbones skellyface-chan.

>>10070553
This was considered lolita back than? I am a newfag sorry but looks very normie to me becouse of no poof

>>10071722
Haha, well, thank you. Grass is always greener and all that. I do have super prominent cheekbones and a defined jawline so I should be thankful.

>>10070765
What dress is this? I kind of like it hi hi

>>10071730
its an old bodyline jsk but i cannot remember the name

>>10071719
be grateful, i wish i was skinny with a thin face or skinny with a cute round face, but nope im chubby with a mediocre face.

>>10071648
Jesus christ that chin.

>>10071725
No, I think they were just posting some of Skye's outfits.

>>10071742
You could easily change that though. Kind of stuck with our facial structure.

>>10070765
What dress is her jsk?

>>10070476
Iiraliina has recently reemerged on ig!

>>10071666
>Reads cgl
>Caring what people think
>This makes her self absorbed

It's called being a person, anon. I'm personally glad there's more to her posts than generic niceties nowadays. It isn't like she's setting out to actively stir the pot or goes on self important rants about inclusion/whatever meme problem is happening in the community. I really don't see where you're coming from on this.

>>10071719
It's called severe bulimia

thislonlyflower. now know as angelicmacarons

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God I love herajika. She kind of dresses more casually now but I still love her low key attitude about the fashion.

She also inspired me to mix vintage with lolita, her style was definitely quirkier than FR's though.

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I love Herajika because she wore so many styles, sweet, classic, gothic, otome, she dabbled in all and had the wardrobe for it.

>>10071584
Yeah, I think us old farts tend to remember Lauran because she really helped to pave the road for all future lolitas to be more confident about wearing lolita in public and have more fun with it. Up until then, the community was just a bunch of people taking pictures in their bedrooms, backyards, and the occasional anime convention. Nobody was really out there living the dream except Lauran. Then Muier_Noir moved there and joined her and the community lost their god damned minds (in a good way). There were a lot of pair lolitas after that who followed in their footsteps, like psychodollfie and graveflower.

Anyone have any favorite handmade dresses from years ago? Personally I really like how these look: egl.livejournal.com/11366372.html

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>>10072099
I’m so happy Shelby is still around, even though she isn’t super active

>>10071646
I love this. Cute but casual and comfy.

>>10071701
I know a lolita in wonderland blog, but I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing? The one I’m thinking of was by a girl from the Netherlands named Rosalyn.

>>10072086
Oh, I remember loving these when they were posted on lj. All of them looked great.

>>10072099
2009 is cuter

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>>10072001
>mfw I finally realised whose style I've been trying to emulate for the past 6 years
Fuck I thought I was creative but all along I've been unconsciously trying to be herajika

>>10071659
She was. I remember a couple years ago she made a cringey why I left lolita video when she was trying to start a YouTube channel. Someone posted the link here but I don’t know her channel name unfortunately.

>>10072141
I don't think so, this was a community. Member logins and everything. I think it went down because of drama or something as well, along the lines of the oldest members being elistist towards newbies iirc.

>>10071648
She was my crush back in the days. We are still friends on fb and she’s adorable even if she doesn’t wear the fashion anymore.

>>10072812
That's so cool, anon! How is she doing?

Does anyone else get inexplicable nostalgia from a certain dress/print/item?

For me it's Sweet Jam. I've never owned it, and it's not even particularly high on my wishlist. But for some reason, it just reminds me of when I first got into lolita and I was just discovering AP. I can't describe the feeling, but it reminds me of being a new lolita all over again.

>>10072827
I do love this dressing have the same feeling as you. It's for sale on the uk comm and I considered buying it, but it isn't my style.

>>10072827
Holy shit anon. Literally same. I'm generally classic/goth but Sweet Jam and Lady Rose just make me so nostalgic. I have Lady Rose but I'm still looking for Sweet Jam, even though I know I'll never really do them justice.

>>10071648
Jimmy Hill-kei

I was recently randomly reminded of talia_speaks and the charms (?) her dog ate and then shat out, and of course I immediately thought of you guys. Ngl I’m a bit nostalgic for a time where lolita pieces were so scarce that people would pay someone like her for badly sewn accessories. Nowadays anyone who can’t afford brand just buys from eBay/Ali/Taobao.

>>10070268
That fucking snapesnogger avatar probably made me dislike her more than her posts. Fucking snapesnogger.

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>>10070504
Most if not all active members of getoffegl and l_s dressed like shit. That hasn’t changed much imo, it’s like how well someone dressed is inversely proportional to how active they are in online discussions, especially in wank communities.

>>10071658
what shoes is she wearing bc i love them and want a pair

>>10072838
Talia was excellent drama, but I thought the dogshit charms were someone else? Maybe pinkzombies?

>>10072838
>the charms (?) her dog ate and then shat out
That was pink_zombies, not talia_speaks. PZ was a much more entertaining trainwreck.

>>10072815
Not the original anon but I also have her as a friend and she seems to be doing very well! She’s nice.

>>10072827
Sweet Jam is so cute, I still want the yellow. For me my ultimate nostalgia dress will always be Fruits Parlor in red. I don’t personally want to own it in that colorway, but I associate it with the dawn of OTT/deco Sweet,

>>10072841
Looks like the frilly rocking horses that were popular for awhile. Antaina sold them.

>>10072066
I like lauran, but some of her personal posts have made me wonder if she is... Ok? She has made some bizarre claims.

>>10072890
Like what?

Does anyone remember any Lolita youtubers from 2009-2010?

I didn't know what Livejournal was so I was pretty late to all that, and the only Lolitas I knew of were a handful of girls on youtube. I've forgotten all but a couple of them, and I've always wondered about one girl in particular.

She was English with long brown hair. I don't remember her channel name. I think her real name was Emily but I can't tell if I'm remembering that correctly or not. Most of her videos were slideshows of her coords/meetup pics with Kanon Wakeshima music playing in the background. She had a short series going over the process of handmaking a blue x white skirt or JSK and I think the first video she ever talked in was one where she was talking about making group orders with her comm to reduce shipping costs. I also remember most of her wardrobe being black x white. I think her channel may have had maybe 300 to 1,000 subscribers when I first found it, but I don't remember that for sure either.

Does anyone remember or know someone that matches this sort of description? Since I didn't know about LJ she was one of the first and only people I saw actually wearing Lolita at that time, and I looked up to her a lot. She was even the first person to give me any sort of advice for starting out, which I took into consideration when finally getting my first pieces years later. I haven't been able to find her channel since then, though, and I don't think it exists anymore. I'd be really happy if someone else remembers her.

What happend to Milky Fawn ? I miss her she was so great. Another lolita I have no longer seen is Tiferet but that I do not really miss

>>10072924
Afaik MF started getting bizarre negative attention when she got popular (i.e. stalkers, suicidal people sending her messages? etc.) and she decided drop off social media, and eventually dropped lolita too, presumably because it didn't make her happy anymore. I think she's still on ig but under a different name, posting wildly different content than she used to.

>>10072924
>>10072937

Yeah, she went completely minimal no waste konmari lifestyle. Last i checked her IG (which I now forgot), she was publicly shaming her boyfriend for either throwing away some garbage she was going to reuse or eating a non vegan item, I forget which now. She took it down after we talked about it here though, which was interesting.

Anyone remember victorianrabbit? She was quite active in the nyc comm, and one of my faves. I think she was an international student though, so maybe she had to go home?

>>10072938
How old is she actually? In the Deerstaller movie she said she was to old for sweet but I think she was then 25 at the most

>>10072967
isnt that victorianme? if so then she's still active and she's got a YT channel!

Jillian Pixieloocks had nice coords, now she has some creepy decora content

>>10072967
>>10072972

She's around and still active, but a bit less so because of law school. I'd really love to meet her since she sounds so nice and lovely! IG is victorianme.

Vintage misspinkstazi

>>10072815
Lives with her parents, still unemployed

>>10072976
Lol

Peachie was my idol back in the old days

>>10072972
Hooray, thanks! I started ig only recently and was sad not to find a “victorianrabbit”

>>10072996
>still unemployed

I'm surprised considering the economy. I know companies are begging to find workers just even warm bodies to fill positions.

>>10073018
I still love her desu.

>>10073033
I am no sure if she still wears the fashion. She posted lately only some vlogs about Japan . We liked her back then even if she had very little brand, mostly bodyline and God forbid replicas. Everything was so simple and just cute. I for example had for a couple of years some ofbrand dresses I thought could be used for lolita today I would be ashamed with something at least bodyline or taobao.

anyone remember aiko? i think she was more into visual kei, but her photoshoots and style were so cool.

smileysquid was so cute!

sporkii was also cute and had a really unique style. i think she still active in lolita and a mom now

just dumping some saved coordinates from my daily_lolita folder

vintage pastelbat

i dont remember her name but she had a huge sweet wardrobe and she was so cute

>>10073018
Same! Her "lolita and confidence" video gave me the push to start buying and wearing politan, even if it was only bodyline initially.

Her YouTube has gotten a bit boring now though...

>>10071263
Both those people you mentioned are sick though? Spiro has an ED, Mintkismet has narcolepsy and the meds for that are either stimulants or heavy sedatives so pretty much kill appetite (plus narcolepsy can unpredictably screw up your hormonal regulation given that your sleep cycle and circadian rhythm is lost, so some people feel really nauseated/not hungry vs other who want to eat all the things).

>>10073018
I loved her back when I was a baby-lita and gradually stopped keeping up with her videos.

I actually met her by chance during the harajuku fashion walk back in June. She's genuinely really sweet and I wish I had kept up with her blog now

>>10073027
Iirc, funkychin is from a rich family, so it's willfully unemployed.

>>10072812
>>10072815
she has a great sense of style and she's friendly but she hasn't matured at all, her internet presence was a lot more mature back in the day. she comes off as being a highschooler these days, she also tends to overshare, infantilizes herself a lot, and basically brags about her lack of accomplishment and ambition.

what happened to jahrundert (sp?)? i always admired the way she wore moitie without looking gawff

>>10073422
she hoards brand and never wears it

>>10073425
does she have any social media?

>>10073427
She's on Youtube as Tallulah Bee, idk about any of her other sm.

>>10071653
I love this coord. It looks well balanced and fresh. Pink x red is one of my favorite color combos.

Ugh I miss old lolita. Yes, we were bunch of itas in today’s standards but it was wearable in daily basis.

Probably not nostalgia per se but does anyone remember that OTT lolita who would wear the same super long blond wig? I think people said she used to earn money by being photographed in ott coords for apartment listings? I know everything is very foggy but that's all I remember

>>10073582
*always wear, fml

>>10069338
>>10070765
Nothing like being dragged to some shitty night club by your friends and running into burnt_tuna in some god awful outfit. Glad to see she's still herself.

>>10073425
Is that her?! I'd heard about a girl who couldn't wear brand and just kept buying it. She doesn't look big, has she put on weight since then?

>>10073582
that was Katiebabydoll...

>>10073596
holy shit yes her. Thank you so much, I just couldn't remember her name. What happened to her anyway?

>>10073598
go to the milkfarms if u wanna catch up on dramu

>>10073598
lol she retired to instagram and deleted all of her other accounts after all the drama went down about her cat I think(All I remember is that she was getting a lot of hate after posting she was bringing a cat from japan? someone please correct me if im wrong). She still sometimes posts if you want to take a look but she is definitely not as active anymore

>>10073594
Yeah, OP's picture is more than 7 years old. She didn't gain too much and fits in some of her brand, she just doesn't like lolita anymore and doesn't wear it.

>>10072851
>>10072853
Oh fuck you're right, she of the lolita muumuu. I must be getting old.

>>10073605
>>10073606
she's an active lolita. had some personal issues to combat, but is getting back on solid footing

>>10073598
Poop. Lots of poop.

>>10071273
anon, you do know that some ana-chans just add obsessive fitness training to their disorders once they become aware they have an issue? it's a way that they think is a step up in recovery but ends up masking the fact that they are still overly restricting their eating.

>>10071604
>using the dress as the blood
really like that choice, even if this is a lil 2edgy
>>10071640
>>10071653
these are great!

>>10073072
effing love this hair

>>10073598
She is my fave lolita of insragram her coords are so perfect

post drama queens from back in the day

>>10073425
That is strange that she doesn't wear it anymore because her large wardrobe made sense back in the day because she was a daily lolita.

>>10073856
Was this girl ever really into lolita or just a general bandwagon costhot? I want to know what went down when this was posted.

>>10070944
Agreed, she's great, outfits on point and great to hang out with. I wish she'd make more things, I own one of her older peices and love it

>>10073856
Unseelie, it's not difficult to remember her and them fetish pics lol.

Remember this one? She was a real lolcow back in the day.

>>10073884
And I dropped my pic like a real idiot.

>>10073884
>>10073887
Good old PZ, she was horrendous and I do feel bad for the people she scammed but her antics were hilarious.

>>10073887
Did she ever go through with her weight-loss surgery? She flounced and I never found out.

>>10073856
desu she was what got me into lolita... I remember seeing her somewhere on LJ and then somehow got linked to egl through her. She was kinda strange but I think some of her photoshoots were cool.

>>10073891
Iirc she did, and she was deluded enough to think she could fit classic and gothic brands very shortly after the surgery, when she still burst the seams of her AP dresses. There was one instance when she wore Vampire Requiem with the back unzipped, and I vaguely recall she wanted to get Moitie but I'm not sure if she actually did.

I wonder what happened to Monologue de chi, she was a German girl and posted plenty of photos of Moitie coordinates! It was probably around 2010-2012

>>10073762
Confirmed for shit taste

>>10073887
omg i think pinkzombies was my favorite lolcow of all time, she just kept giving and giving

>>10073880
costhots weren't a thing back in the mid 2000s lolita community. She was a fetish model and I think she just discovered the fashion through a dollfetish forum.

famou unseelie drama
>posted to egl about wearing lolita to the gym, this then resulted in many memes
>posted photos from a meetup to a doll fetish community, meetup photos included underage members
>took photos wearing the bodyline fruits parlor replica that were just her showing her entire vulva.

>>10073897
>mfw this is what 90% of moitie trenders look like today

never forget talia_speaks

her sewing was so terrible, her flounce was glorious, too bad she took the whole dbs with her and we had to create eglfeedback because of her tantrum

someone upthread said talia_speaks was boring but tbqh her drama was one of my favorite sagas

>>10074004
she's a lularoe consultant now

>>10073989
I remember everything you just said, but especially that vag pic. I wished I could unsee!

>>10074004
Also never forget that before the great commission debacle she had some drama when as a probationary mod she and a friend outed Sniper to Celticfreefall and was kicked off the mod team (although at the time she was still owner of the loligothdbs so fat lot of good they did)

>>10073606
How could you forget LACE and her dramatically quitting lolita because western comms are toxic.

>>10074059

I can't decide if >>10073606, >>10073639, and >>10073762 are either trolls or her dumbass hangeron friends.

>>10071701
I remember. I still visit the forum through Wayback Machine.
I really liked the idea in LiW that Lolita was something like a Nouvelle Préciosité. I have not found that in any other community.
Candy was and still is my idols (pic related).

>>10074108
>Nouvelle Préciosité
what does that mean in this context? A new preciousness, but.. what? I want to understand what this means in relation to lolita.

>>10074113
NAYRT but I think this may be what they meant?

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9cieuses
>The French literary style called préciosité arose in the 17th century from the lively conversations and playful word games of les précieuses, the witty and educated intellectual women who frequented the salon of Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet; her Chambre bleue offered a Parisian refuge from the dangerous political factionalism and coarse manners of the royal court during the minority of Louis XIV.

>>10074113
in that forum there was the idea (I suppose that to a great extent by Candy) that the Lolita was not just clothes, but a group of thinkers and dreamers, very much like Novala. It was a group that sought to enhance the arts, especially the artistic manifestations of its members. In addition, the lifestyle was very much encouraged.
The closest thing I could catch of this idea is this entry in Candy's old lj, it's in Spanish but usually google translates it well.
>https://candy-cabaret.livejournal.com/557.html

>>10070692
My favorite was when some poor girl posted some cute but plain off brand blouses to egl and ifwinterends said the blouses looked like she just got off her shift at Denny's. Brutal.

>>10074121
I love this, thank you for clarifying.

i was gonna post a pic of zeruda's wonderland but found this one instead. pretty sure his username was nmrfxxr, does anyone know where he might be now? i loved his "kadona"/ouji coords so much.

>>10073064
also i love me some aiko. i follow her on instagram and i don't know how i totally forgot she use to wear lolita.

>>10073598
>not knowing K8
do you live under a rock?

>>10073018
She's still cute, but somehow I feel like she's never progressing. Never growing up, never doing something different. She'll always be same old Peachie.

>>10074230
Hey it makes her happy, I think it's fine. I'm sure some people love content creators who are consistent with what they do.

>>10074230
She is genuine unlike Cathycat or Lor. With peachie you feel she is into it out of passion not just her job.

>>10074231
yeah a lot of my favorite bloggers (not lolita bloggers but bloggers in general) have kept the same content and style over the years and have taken a lot of flack for it, but that is the reason that i like them. if they changed/"evolved" they would lose a good chunk of their fanbase too

>>10074231
I'm talking more about her as a person, not the content she creates. I feel like it's unnatural for a person to not change anything about yourself, be it a hairstyle, hair color or preference of clothes. You can change small things and still be true to your style. From a consumer's perspective it might be nice that she is consistent, but that's not always good for the person.

>>10073075
Akane! I loved her coords, I wish I knew what happened to her

>>10074262
She changed her eyebros to be less awful

>>10071997
this is Akira, right?

>>10072987
Isn’t this the girl some anon always says has a weird mouth or something

>>10073068
Freaking love her. Her coords now are gorgeous.

>>10074429
no. weird washed out smile girl is someone else. Cali, friends with K8 I think

>>10074404
yes

>>10074108
>>10074121
That's it, thank you lovely Anon! It's funny because it seems late LiW was like /cgl/, drama and 'its only clothes' type of thinking. LiW was my main source of lolita inspo back in the day and what I liked the most was the subculture/lifestyle aspect the forum had. Too bad it went to shit. Something similar happened with a local comm, and I don't ever bother looking for lolita friend anymore. Such is life I guess

>>10074194
Oh dear I forgot about him... We used to call him Mr. Perfect Kodona in our comm.

>>10074262
Yo I for one totally get what you're talking about. I always had this feeling that something about her was Just a bit... Immature? And not talking about her style but her as a person. I could never put it to words but you described it perfectly. Of course there's nothing wrong with it, if this makes her happy I'm genuinely happy for her. I still enjoy watching her content from time to time.

>>10074466
Too bad he was nicer before

>>10074262
what she puts out on youtube is not necessarily "her" though. she's a personality. she comes across as really genuine and she might be, but she can't fit her life and preferences and interests into short videos, especially ones which are curated to fit the image that she's created for herself. personal growth or shifts are bound to happen behind the scenes, and just because she chooses to create consistent internet content doesn't mean that she is stagnating as a human

anyone remember vivcore? she had the business candyviolet which advertised in shojo beat a lot. she sold affordable lolita skirts and cutsews and graduated to selling lolita inspired knockoffs of rococo era dresses, which lead to a hilarious drama debacle where she poorly made a chemise dress which got a bad review and led to her claiming YEARS AND YEARS of research went into her brand.

she left the community and started making vintage clothes, and instead of lolita claimed her style was "quaintrelle". the forum was full of itas.

>>10074694
some of her dresses

>>10074695
her stuff wasn't that bad, better than in the starlight imo

>>10074696
the infamous dress

>>10074694
i miss her, i always thought her designs were gorgeous and was really disappointed in the chemise quality and the way things played out after that

i have a candy violet cutsew still. is she still around in any capacity?

>>10074698
What’s so bad about it?

>>10074705
See >>10074694
Also really just learn to browse getoffegl

>>10072967
lamp-chan!

>>10074698
There’s a dressmaker I follow selling a lolita version of a chemise de reine on Etsy right now. I wonder how it compares?

>>10074718
Self posting already? Damn

>>10074718
This looks really crooked... That neckline is much too deep for lolita.

>>10074718
>no ruffle at the hem
>massively revealing neckline
>those lazy sleeves
>this styling
Oof, pass.

>>10072972
That looks nothing like victorianme, unless she got mad surgery

>>10074726
If it was a selfpost wouldn’t there be some semblance of a way to point to the account...
Gulls really don’t know how to use logic at all, it’s super lame.

>>10074727
Yeah, I like her aesthetic when she does more 70s and historical stuff but I think she’d be better off doing her own thing and not identifying with lolita.

>>10074729
That’s victorianme about 5 years ago.

So, this is really weird and out there... When I first got into the fashion like around 2009 or so, I was scared of egl livejournal because I was used to forums but it didn't feel anon enough. I was part of a fairly quiet lolita forum. I think it was a euro forum? I remember there being a very beautiful girl with extremely long straight hair, an older girl (maybe a mod) who was very into Django Reinhardt and gypsy guitar, and a girl whose DD was pic related. It was a very friendly and small forum, and they were very kind to me as a useless noob who just wanted to understand. I know it's not much, but does anyone know what that forum might have been?

>>10074705
I think the dress in real life had frayed hems and other imperfections, basically her stock photos were heavily edited

>>10074732
HOLY SHIT. What happened to her? She looks great now but wow she looks completely different

Someone make a new thread, this one was really fun

>>10074737
She looks exactly the same, just 5 years older, and she hasn’t aged poorly or anything...
Maybe the wig and face angle are throwing you off.

>>10074740
Oh, no, I mean that she's aged really really well. Like "she looks like a whole different young and beautiful person" level of well

New thread to continue discussions >>10074758

>>10074718
The ruffles look cheap. Needs nice lace or smaller ruffles that don't reveal what shitty material it is

>>10074642
I disagree. I watched a talk/panel she lead about feminine power and the fashion and found her very mature and thoughtful. she seems pretty even keeled and pure.

>I do wish someone would help her with her natural hair though

>>10074269
She was living in an area where she was the only lolita and people was really mean to her, so she quit. Also, some anxiety-related problems didn't make her any good. She was nice.

>>10072101
Do you know if she’s active on social media? Does she have an active youtube account or something? I really liked her old youtube channel and am so sad she stopped uploading videos.