Why do you wear lolita?

[Anonymous No.10625258]

what was it that you saw that made you go "I WANT TO WEAR THAT!"

[Anonymous No.10625259]

Saw that moonphase anime in middle school

[Anonymous No.10625264]

>>10625258
I saw pictures of it in the mid 2000's. Some landwhale who bullied me started wearing it. She looked like a trash fire and I knew I would look better if I tried it out and here we are.

[Anonymous No.10625267]

>>10625258
It’s cute and I’m cute, we were made for each other

[Anonymous No.10625287]

>>10625267
Aw that's wholesome!

[Anonymous No.10625289]

Rose Nocturnalia. Started watching her videos for the goth music recommendations, and I thought she looked so cute I had to try it. I definitely don't coord as well as she does but it makes me happy.

[Anonymous No.10625339]

>>10625258
A girl from school wore it and I got inspired by her

[Anonymous No.10625341]

Weeb phase but also a friend introduced me to it, lent me a dress so we could go out together and i fell in love with the style.

[Anonymous No.10625342]

Watched a lot of marie antoinette documentaries when i was younger and i loved their dresses then i watches rozen maiden and a character in it wears lolita fashion so i looked it up and fell in love

[Anonymous No.10625352]

>>10625258
I used to draw and browse on one art site a lot in -05 to -10, and there was a few artist who drew a lot of lolita and such and i fell in love with the fashion trough that lol, sounds pretty lame.

[Anonymous No.10625356]

I loved reading and watching things like Anne of Green Gables growing up, so when a friend showed me the Gothic & Lolita Bible, it felt like the perfect fashion for me

[Anonymous No.10625358]

Gonna be real with y'all, one day I was shown an ad for those Mary Magdalene replicas on wish and I thought I NEED THAT

[Anonymous No.10625372]

I actually wanted to be a ganguro before a lolita, but I stumbled across Kamikaze Girls and kinda lost my shit. For the most part, I've always dressed Alternatively, but I never thought of super femme as an 'alt style,' but here I am now.

[Anonymous No.10625377]

princess peachie's lolita dress-up games on deviantart way back in like, 2009

[Anonymous No.10625402]

>>10625358
>wish
that new, huh?

[Anonymous No.10625403]

>>10625258
It is one of the only things that makes me feel happy inside

[Anonymous No.10625405]

>be me
>be underaged b& on /b/ in 2005
>hot new anime comes out
>all the /b/tards be talking
>desudesudesu.jpg
>Wow I love these outfits they're so pretty
>start buying manga that are tangently related to dolls/doll aesthetic
>fall down the rabbit hole and learn about lolita
>Am still obsessed with it to this day

Thanks, /b/ , for being the round about reason for me getting into lolita, I guess?

[Anonymous No.10625407]

I watched a sus let's play series and saw tyler's video recommended (most likely the kelly eden one) and started watching her. I would then regularly see her content on the recommended so I kept watching her (back when she did regular lwln shows and back when I found her content funny.) I saw that she got sponsored by a store called Lolita Desu which I checked out and there was this one dress that I just loved. Later Lolita Desu was having their closing sale and somehow it was still there so I picked it up.

[Anonymous No.10625410]

>>10625405
Did the sharpie went in the pooper though?

[Anonymous No.10625411]

saw a pic of mana sama in 2006. fell in love, lurked for years, finally dove into it and have no ragrets

[Anonymous No.10625412]

>>10625258
I love the aesthetic of it. It makes for good times with good friends too.

[Anonymous No.10625413]

Saw pictures online in 03' and thought cute dress = I want to wear it

[Anonymous No.10625424]

Weeb phase, saw it online and at an anime con around 2009ish and I fell in love, got my first stuff from bodyline around the same time :')

[Anonymous No.10625439]

kanon wakeshima. i was already a budding tween weeb, then i saw her playing the cello in a frilly dress and thought she was the coolest.

then i found out she's kind of an ita sometimes and not very good live. but still have a soft spot

[Anonymous No.10625459]

>>10625258
Was a goth in 2002, also on LJ. Searched for goth stuff and somehow found EGL. Got into it and here we are. Was never into anime or other weeb shit, just lolita.

[Anonymous No.10625461]

Learned about it whilst being a regular goth / other board browser who clicked on /cgl/ one day out of boredom in the 2000s-2010s to see what it was about. I'd never seen EGL before and was astounded by it, took a while to work up to actually seeing myself wearing it though.

[Anonymous No.10625465]

SmileySquid. I can't find the actual photo of her that made me buy it and get into it, but it was some outfit that she wore to go to the nutcracker. It was that much of a lasting impression on me, that I still think of it today.

[Anonymous No.10625477]

I actually used to frequent /fa primarily and never fit in. Over time my tastes have become fancier, and I realized that lolita isn’t limited to sweet and gothic (I like classic and country). I also have been wearing blouses and velvet clothing for years but never realized there was a specific fashion that gave related dressing and lifestyle tips. Started to dip into /cgl more and realized that the fashion was something I could pull off now that I’ve lost weight, and I also like the idea of meeting people with similar interests. So, in short, even though this board is a mean clusterfuck over a course of several years mildly lurking (and having more free time in the pandemic), you have inspired me /cgl.

And now I’ll be called a covidlita and told to leave. I’m staying though :) and never buying TaoBao or Bodyline.

[Anonymous No.10625488]

>>10625258
Honestly? Venus Angelic. When I learned her mediocre Bodyline outfits that I had always thought were cute were just the bargain bin version of a real alternative fashion, I started looking at various efamous actual lolitas like Deerstalker and for a bit Pixielocks before she went downhill, and then learned more just through lurking and reading about the fashion and following people like Misako and actual brands. Years later, and I'm now an almost daily lolita. As cringe as Venus was, at least I have her and my annoying teenage weeb phase to thank for my involvement in the fashion.

[Anonymous No.10625494]

I wanted to join lolita in the 2010’s era when I was still a kid, and my mom convinced me its way too expensive and everyone in my family has tig ol biddies so I’ll grow out of them fast. then i grew up and my tigs never biddied and it wasnt as expensive as I thought so I finally did it

[Anonymous No.10625495]

>>10625494
>i grew up and my tigs never biddied

I wish that had happened to me; I got tits when I was like 10 yrs old and even when I lose a lot of weight and am on the lowest end of healthy they stay pretty big.

Thinking I'll just get a reduction/lift combo when I get older if I get really sick of them.

[Anonymous No.10625496]

>>10625494
Fuck yeah. Just don’t get gregnant and maybe the tids will never bid.

[Anonymous No.10625557]

Got into it through /cgl/. I was a cosplayer since 2012, so I came here for the cosplay threads in ~2015, and slowly got into lolita. I was already into goth fashion and I fell in love with what I saw Mana, FR etc. wearing.

[Anonymous No.10625558]

>>10625258

Two things actually:

The first being a V-kei phase in high school circa 2006. Found out about Malice Mizer, then Mana, then Moitie.

The second reason is that I had a "frenemy" senior year who was really into lolita. I wanted to one-up for being a snobbish dick to me. Wasn't hard because she was a hambeast mallgoth who couldn't fit into brand.

[Anonymous No.10625563]

>>10625495
God, anon are you me? I'm only 21 and heavily considering a reduction. I hate it.

[Anonymous No.10625568]

>>10625495
>>10625494
>>10625563
It's a diet / hormones thing for your body type.

In the same boat. I managed to get them down, let myself lapse into eating meat over the pandemic and now they are large again.

If you cut out red meats and the majority of foods that influence hormones, you'll see a decrease with weight loss over time. ONLY with weight loss. I can't say shit towards anything else, but your average American diet causes breast tissue to swell. (for certain body types)

I can't say anything for you folk who aren't dieting, exercising though. You're fucked if you're not even trying.

[Anonymous No.10625570]

>>10625495
Oh god same here. I’d qualify for the reduction partially paid by the government but still thinking about it trough. Would make wearing jfashion a lot more easier without a binder.

[Anonymous No.10625578]

>>10625258
My mom had two Gothic & Lolita Bibles back in 2009ish and I checked them out and I've been in love with the fashion ever since

[Anonymous No.10625584]

Was already a weeb and somewhat aware of lolita as a teenager (I even did a research project on lolita for fashion class), that was around 2006, 2007.

Years later I started lurking /cgl/ for cosplay advice and I also got a tumblr at that time so I was exposed to lolita content from both. I was too chickenshit to take the plunge, in fact I was just gonna wear himekaji but then Fancy Egg came out and I fell in love. Bought a second hand dress at a convention and it snowballed from there.

[Anonymous No.10625585]

>>10625578
Your mom sounds cool

[Anonymous No.10625587]

I cant be the only one who found it though Othello

[Anonymous No.10625589]

>>10625568
I'm >>10625563
Idk about the other anons, but I'm a strict vegetarian and mostly eat vegan. They do not get smaller for me no matter what I eat. I eat healthy and get daily exercise and they're still stupidly big, I think it's just genetics for me. Also, I'm not American.

[Anonymous No.10625594]

>>10625477
no one tells covidlitas to leave, stop victimizing yourself. if you're not the ultra annoying kind who refuses to wear lolita outside no one gives a fuck.

[Anonymous No.10625657]

Was buying yaoi at Borders, found the 1st volume of english GLB and I've never looked back

[Anonymous No.10625660]

>>10625568
I'm sure you're probably right about this; when I ate mostly vegan and pescatarian I feel like they were easier to hide/less constantly swollen. I have eaten more meat in the last year or so since dating my partner and I can tell they're bigger than they normally would be with average weight gain despite me barely gaining 5lbs the whole pandemic.

What are your experiences with onions products? I feel like I consume them a moderate amount (occasionally making tofu or using onions based coffee creamer) but didn't notice a lot of growth when I switched to onions from almond initially even though everyone tends to be up in arms about the phytoestrogens or whatever.

[Anonymous No.10625661]

>>10625660
fuck I forgot /fit/ ruined the word S. O. Y.

[Anonymous No.10626443]

I think the first time I saw it when I watched visual kei videos on youtube. Googled and saw some more pics and a few years later I'm here

[Anonymous No.10626610]

>>10625258
I stared at MM for a few years but it was an IW sailor style coat that finally convinced me I needed this fashion.

Classic is so romantic

[Anonymous No.10626612]

It was the music and vkei in general for me. Been listening for years. I don't wear lolita though, I'm doing EGA and vkei.
I have so many more friends but I feel a million times more miserable because I can't take criticism well, and also this awakened in me a very cringe but dormant mental issue which I guess you can imagine what it is

[Anonymous No.10626615]

I saw some Fruits magazine scans and street snaps while looking up cosplay stuff and was interested but I was a child and Google was not helpful at the time

>>10625358
This but Milanoo in 2006

[Anonymous No.10626616]

>>10625589
onions and s o y and other phytoestrogens mess with your boobs

[Anonymous No.10626682]

>>10625496
i have 71 cm bust, i dont think anything short of implants could put me in a normal cup size. the only bras I can even wear are children’s size but they choke me circumference-wise so ive stopped trying

[Anonymous No.10626851]

In middle school I dressed like the bullied tomboy I was. Somewhere on the internet I saw grainy pictures of Aristo coordinates, which I somehow thought was simply "goth". The frills and elegance kept charming me. That inspired me go try and be "goth" for a week, which consisted of too much eyeliner, a single black a-line skirt and the few dark coloured t-shirts I had. It was a poor kid's emo phase, and I felt like a failure. So instead I crept back into my shell of jeans, t-shirt and no makeup at all, blaming that I thought it was too much effort to dress "up" every day. I wanted to forget the ruffled collars which had made me embarrass myself so much.

High school had my weaboo ass completely devoted to cosplay. Tumblr was my second home, but after a couple of years the platform felt overwhelming and fractured to me. I wanted to see more cosplay stuff? And that's when I truly listened to rumours about this /cgl/ place... I honestly came here for cosplay and cosplay only. However, by the time I got here the cosplay threads were already boring, and lolita threads attracted me instead. By now I had the patience and reading comprehension to understand what all of these frills were about. Thus began my phase of lurking, taking up another couple of years. I saved a lot of images during this time, which I still have on a hard drive.

The turning point came when a weaboo friend was cleaning out her closet. She was a conlita at best, but happened to offer me a bodyline jsk which she didn't want anymore. Despite my lurking I was still dressing like a bullied tomboy, so I slipped that stained pink rag right over my jeans and didn't get it. Then she lent me a petticoat, and I got it. I stood in front of her mirror feeling simultaneously the ugliest and the prettiest I had ever felt in my life. I hid that jsk at the bottom of my closet and spent my next bunch of birthday money on my first coord. I haven't looked back since.

I love this fashion. So much.

[Anonymous No.10626881]

I saw pictures of lolitas while browsing for random outfit ideas but never knew it was actually a fashion. I saved the pictures to a file in my computer and years later I saw a RinRin Doll's video and found out that there were actual brands that sold the dresses I loved so many years ago and here I am.

[Anonymous No.10627416]

>>10625258
I don't remember how I discovered it since I was never that into anime or any sort of common gateway, but one of the big reasons that it appealed to me was that it was centered more on looking modest and cute. Western fashion, at least where I live, is mostly focused on looking bold and sexy and not only was I not into those styles, but my body type (tiny skeleton, not as in super skinny but my actual bones are small and I'm really short) wasn't really considered attractive. So as a teen I felt more confident looking up to jfash because of how much more positively my body type was represented and it helped me feel like I could be pretty without being sexualized.

[Anonymous No.10627441]

I saw some pictures on tumblr. Fell in love completely. I was a complete ita when I started, even got posted here and got completely roasted, but I kept looking at pictures and buying new pieces, and finding what worked on me and now I can look in the mirror and feel great.

[Anonymous No.10627474]

>>10626851
This read like a short film that would be featured at a film festival

[Anonymous No.10634741]

Bump

[Anonymous No.10634832]

There was a blurb about Japanese fashion in the back of my Paradise Kiss manga around 2003-04. I was intrigued and hopped on Google and found egl on Livejournal.

[Anonymous No.10634846]

Gothic Beauty Issue 9, in particular this one poofy dress with a bustle. This was 2003 or 2004. Didn't have the money or time to get into it until 2016, though. At that point, I was also into the fantastical and classic styles as well as the gothic stuff. I think seeing Innocent World's Midnight Merry Go Round was really my lightbulb moment.

[Anonymous No.10634850]

>>10634846
I remember that! I actually have the first 5 or so years of GB still. Time fucking flies.

[Anonymous No.10634937]

I stumbled upon lolita on tumblr and would follow and like posts but never went more into it until I saw a shop girl at a Sanrio store in a full coord, she was so pretty!

[Anonymous No.10635157]

im a whore so i need something cute to balance it a bit

[Anonymous No.10635159]

>>10635157
>t. scrote

[Anonymous No.10635160]

>>10635159
i admit i was having a bit of fun but don't tell me you're this insecure when people call themselves whores

[Anonymous No.10635162]

>>10635157
wow, men are so funny.

[Anonymous No.10635163]

>>10635160
The word whore has negative connotations for most people, so what do you expect.

[Anonymous No.10635187]

honestly? finding /cgl/ back in 2012 as a teenager with self esteem issues and seeing how fancy and beautiful it looked while not being oversexualized either.

[Anonymous No.10635199]

>>10625258
10000% princess peachie’s videos. i must have stumbled across them on tumblr and middle school me was just entranced by OTT sweet lolita. now i wear more toned-down classic but i will always have a spot in my heart for sugary sweetness, and also squirrel party because of her.

[Anonymous No.10635311]

i wear lolita because my taste in fashion has not evolved since i was ten years old

i loved browsing the btssb website back then with its pictures for ants, thinking "i have no idea what is going on with these clothes but one day i will wear them"

[Anonymous No.10635340]

One day back in 2005/2006 I skipped school with a friend and so we went to the local library to kill some time. In some corner with foreign books there was an GLB issue which caught our attention. We went through the pages in awe and instantly fell in love with the fashion. I never saw anything like this in my life. When I was at home again, my brain was still overloaded with all the information which I saw. I looked more at the picture than the text, so I couldn't even remember the name of the magazine by the time I was home. Then I desperately tried to remember anything which could me help me google it and find more information about it. For some reason "Putumayo" stuck into my head and when I googled it I also found avantgauche and lolitasnap. I still remember being upset when I tried to register for lolitasnap with some normie image and I got rejected kek.

[Anonymous No.10635366]

Unfortunately, my first exposure to lolita was the Venus Angelic My Strange Addiction episode. I was obsessed with her style and started watching her videos, then discovered better lolita YouTubers, and went “Oh, shit. I gotta get in on this.”

[Anonymous No.10635377]

Ironically, I only cosplayed once, but I started hanging out on cgl for tips and tricks. At the time the taobao thread was also there so I got into shitty TB fashion. Some anons were talking about pic related, which I saw and my shitty cosplayer heart fell in love. I eventually was able to get it and ever since then have been sort of obsessed with it.

Ironically though, I'm almost 100% classic grandma florals and solids these days, but I still have the dress as well as the blue version now.

[Anonymous No.10635426]

>>10625264
Same, but replace landwhale with uggo.

[Anonymous No.10635450]

I fell in love with old school, but gave up on wearing it because everyone in the lolita community always goes on about how tiny it was. I didn’t even check to see if it would fit me because of this
And then I decided to have a look on lolibrary to see what the average measurements for old-school was and realised that it would fit me and it’s not tiny. also the moment I realised the majority of the lolita community are morbidly obese

[Anonymous No.10635453]

I grew up in a 200 yo house with lots of very old antiques. My mother loved styles from the 1700-1800s and it really shaped my tastes in many things. Then I started seeing gothic Lolita when I discovered manga at 10 having no idea wtf it was other than elegant and beautiful (albeit anime ita most of the time)
I always just wanted to look like a spooky bisque doll or elegant lady and Lolita really fanned those flames.

[Anonymous No.10635477]

>>10635453
Omg, another reason why I love old school is that it reminds me of dolls. I simply don’t understand why people don’t like the fashion being compared to dolls, to me, being compared to a doll would be the greatest compliment

[Anonymous No.10635508]

>>10635477
Some people remember when photos from meets got reposted to some creepy fetish living doll website...

[Anonymous No.10635525]

Combo vkei fan, x-day manga, and the fresh FRUITS photobook.

>>10635508
Before anyone asks: https://getoffegl.livejournal.com/425219.html Caps are gone, as is the originating thread link, but you get the idea from all the comments.

[Anonymous No.10635674]

Saw old BtSSB in FRUiTs, didn't care too much but did notice it, stumbled across egl super randomly on LJ maybe 2003ish? Saw some MM there and that's what actually got me hooked. I had only associated that level of silhouette and fit with fancy cocktail dresses and bridal gowns up til then, but suddenly I loved these classical dresses when I had been essentially allergic to feminine wear for most of my life.

[Anonymous No.10636119]

I knew of it when I was a child weeb in the mid 00's, but because I was child and also stupid I didn't really bother to look into it too much, just thought it was cool. I don't think it was until 2013 or so when a combination of things happened: I saw some pics on tumblr of japanese lolitas wearing 2010's AP OTT sweet, I saw some similarly styled lolitas at a convention, and I also found and started using cgl.

If I had to pick one moment in particular from that, I think it was seeing the lolitas IRL that made me think "fuck it, I wanna wear that shit" because they all looked so cute and cool, and seeing it IRL was different than just seeing pics online. Finding cgl was kinda just the gateway to helping me find resources for getting started.