/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

[Anonymous No.7659072]

Good ideas for fandom prints?

I want a Keeping Up Appearances print with a row of flowers: roses in a slinky curvy vase, daisies in a short round thrift-store-floral vase, violets in a regal vase, and hyacinths in a metal bucket.

[Anonymous No.7659074]

>>7659072
>Good ideas for fandom prints?

Don't do fandom prints.

/thread

[Anonymous No.7659114]

>>7659074
I don't even care. I'm buying this dress and I will look fabulous in it.

[Anonymous No.7659122]

>>7659114

Yeah, keep telling yourself this weirdly cut mediocre-quality dress from a chinese costume shop with an edgy "geek"-print will look good on anybody. I cannot wait for all the "Dr. Who Lolita cosplayers soo kawaii and speciuhl!! ^^"-coords I am about to see on tumblr/cgl.

Even brand cosplay desings/animu inspired dresses usually look terrible, there is no way this F+F-dress is an exception.

[Anonymous No.7659131]

>>7659122
Not that anon and I actually agree that this dress and every fandom dress to date has been ugly as sin, but christ you are so upset, calm the fuck down.

[Anonymous No.7659575]

>>7659072
Urgh Fanplufriend always make stuff that's always slightly "off" I quite like the shape if the "time traveler" jsk but that nasty fabric with the cheesy Dr Who print is gross.

Why is the tardis in the other colorway red? I mean fine you want to make a telephone box print go for it but its just a red tardis..

[Anonymous No.7659606]

Isn't there the batman one that was just the Wayne mansion silhouette in purple? That was pretty classy.

[Anonymous No.7659676]

>>7659114
hahaha no you won't

[Anonymous No.7659701]

>>7659072
To be honest I like this dress, and I don't even like Dr. Who.
Though it would look better without the tardis - just be like a starry cityscape print.

[Anonymous No.7659720]

>>7659575
F+F always seems to choose bad fabrics and it pisses me off.
What about the Princess Jellyfish dress? I would like it more if it had less ribbons.

[Anonymous No.7659724]

I am also getting it, but as a birthday present so I don't feel awkward getting some fandom lolita in my wardrobe. I am only planning on wearing it to cons anyways, so eh.

This print is a guilty pleasure print, though. Hate every other fandom lolita stuff I have seen.

[Anonymous No.7659758]

I saw someone suggest an Utena print in another thread, I feel like that has so much potential. Especially with the silhouette type of art and the rose motif, I bet someone could come up with something lovely.

[Anonymous No.7659764]

Thoughts on the Innocent World x Rozen Maiden collaboration? I've seen /cgl/ get extremely rustled at the mere implication that Rozen Maiden outfits are very close to lolita in the past, but I'd like to see opinions on the outfits done as well as they'll likely ever be done.

[Anonymous No.7659765]

>>7659764

[Anonymous No.7659766]

>>7659765

[Anonymous No.7659769]

>>7659766

[Anonymous No.7659771]

>>7659764
I only like the Shinku set, maybe I'll get it sometime in the future. Souseiseki and Barasuishou sets are acceptable, the others are just plain ugly.

[Anonymous No.7659787]

>>7659764
The stock picture for the material was absolutely gorgeous.
>>7659769
I second Souseiseki's set. It's the only set I'd love to own of the bunch.

[Anonymous No.7659904]

>>7659765
I think Shinku looks quite cute. The rest of them not as much.

[Anonymous No.7659998]

I really love the Angelic Pretty x Creamy Mami collaboration dress myself but I know many may not agree with me. When it comes to mixing fandom stuff and lolita, it may be near impossible to find the perfect balance and make it work.

[Anonymous No.7660000]

>>7659998
I like most collabs, but some really are a huge miss. I think the important thing is finding a balance between the design, and it being aesthetically lolita.

[Anonymous No.7660038]

Waiting forever for the Sailor Moon x Angelic Pretty collab.
Not that I'll be able to get it.

[Anonymous No.7660042]

>>7659575
Because it's not a tardis its just a red phone box. I guess for people that like london-y stuff but don't like doctor who? Red phone boxes are pretty iconic of London/Britain, probably even moreso before the D. Who reboot

[Anonymous No.7660047]

>>7659072
Yay fellow Keeping Up Appearances fan

[Anonymous No.7660088]

>>7660038
I would enjoy a Puella Magi collab more.

[Anonymous No.7660152]

Kill la Kill inspired coords will Kill la Kill me.

[Anonymous No.7660168]

>>7660152
>glove on head
Why...

I still find the AoT lolita outfits ridiculous, partially because cosplayers in my area actually make and wear them to cons.

[Anonymous No.7660180]

>>7659766
>>7659764
I actually like the Hina Ichigo set, and I might purchase it, but for cosplay (I know it's inaccurate, but it's just for fun with friends)

[Anonymous No.7660191]

>>7660168
I always cringe when I see AoT lolitas and now seeing how Kill la Kill is very popular I fear the worst is yet to come. Out of all the shows people somehow always choose the most horrible option as inspiration for an outfit.

[Anonymous No.7660196]

>>7660088
That's such a cute Mami & Charlotte.

I don't like the idea of fandom prints but sometimes I do see fan art (like pic related) that actually looks cute. They're not trying to force a design like Ryuko's uniform into being lolita like >>7660152 - more like putting characters into outfits they would actually wear that are relevant thematically.

[Anonymous No.7660204]

>>7660152
Looks stupid. They only work if its really subtle. As in make it a regular sailor dress with a black sash

[Anonymous No.7660212]

the only ones that ever look good are Meta's uniformed based looks.
BUT EVEN THEN it's freakin costume and should only be worn to cons/ bigger OTT events

[Anonymous No.7660240]

>>7660204
I think the colors in KLK are just too bold to work. In fact that's the problem with most fandom coords IMO, they're forced to use colors that you would never want to use in lolita otherwise, along with weird themes that don't fit the aesthetic at all.
>>7660196 works because it's the right color palette. If they did the other senshi they would probably stick to toned down color combos rather than what they actually are i.e. light green and soft pink for Jupiter, peach and pale yellow for Venus, red and lavender or maybe just red for Mars.

[Anonymous No.7660241]

>>7660042
I'm pretty sure it actually is the tardis/police box but in red so it resembles a British phone box, which is why it makes no sense. If you look carefully, the red version still says 'police box' on it, they have never been red where as phone boxes traditionally are.

[Anonymous No.7663065]

>>7659764
I have the Kanaria blouse and its quite beautiful. I dont know about wearing any of the sets though.... Maybe Shinku but yeah.

[Anonymous No.7663567]

>>7659072
I want a series of subtle Star Wars planet border prints: a quaint treehouse village for Endor, a modern-ish cityscape print much like the one some indie brand put out a while ago for Coruscant (baroquepetrock?), elegant snowy peaks with a fur collar like pic related for Hoth, etc. No major Star Wars details but each piece would have a tiny spaceship somewhere, maybe as buttons for waist ties or a charm on a strand of pearls.

[Anonymous No.7663575]

>>7663567
aaaaaaaand dropped image.

[Anonymous No.7663580]

>>7660152
AP already did something like this with blood plus or whatever

[Anonymous No.7663908]

>>7660038
Oh lawd, if they did that I'd have to break the bank and buy all the things. Maybe with Sailor Moon Crystal it's a possibility...

[Anonymous No.7667889]

>>7659074
I agree, I do not like fandom x Lolita. I cosplay a Lolita character and it's a cosplay, never a coordinate or fit for a fashion meet, tea, Lolita outing etc.

Most people don't like Lolita fashion referred to as a costume but these kind of prints make it seem more costume or cosplay than fashion.

[Anonymous No.7667940]

I'd kinda like to see one of the brands do a collab with Yoshitaka Amano. Maybe like a Vampire D x Alice and the Pirates (If I had to pick a specific work), but it could be anything. Just a print with his paintings would be gorgeous.

The issue I have with fandom prints is that the fans that do them are only sorta into lolita, or flat out itas, and don't understand the style well enough to make it work. Or they shoehorn stuff like Marvel and Attack on Titan without thought put into how it will translate to the lolita style. They treat it like a costume, but really, you should think of it more like a "themed" coord.

[Anonymous No.7668477]

>>7660191
>>7660168
I really like this one though. 'cause of the print.

[Anonymous No.7668501]

Has there ever been an attempt at Homestuck lolita, or is this the one territory not yet charted ?

[Anonymous No.7668507]

>>7659072
>hyacinths in a metal bucket.
It's "boo-kay"

[Anonymous No.7668508]

>>7668477
It could be so much better if it didn't look cartoony

they could have print around the bottom of the houses, and decorated with the signs of the walls

It'd actually be a pretty architectural thing if someone did it right

[Anonymous No.7668531]

>>7668507
bouquet?

[Anonymous No.7668534]

>>7668501
Yes, there has.
http://www.tumblr.com/search/lolitastuck
I'm so sorry that your retinas were burned out, but you know what they say about curiousity.

[Anonymous No.7668535]

>>7668508
I think a print like you described would look cool on a dress styled kind of like Mozarabic Chant.

[Anonymous No.7668540]

>>7668531
It's Bucket. It's always been Bucket until I married you.

[Anonymous No.7669404]

>>7668477
This is super cute, and I personally think it's much more appealing than most of the "creative" approaches to AOT cosplay that have been showing up lately

[Anonymous No.7670472]

>all the people itt saying fandom themed prints never look good no exceptions
But... aren't literary prints technically fandom prints? My fandom is Phantom of the Opera and if anyone tries to say Masquerade Theater is a shitty dress, I want whatever drugs they're on.

[Anonymous No.7670488]

>>7668501
I did a coord with Rouge Aeries Nightmare Rising and themed it to grimdark Rose Lalonde. It was really subtle, most people wouldn't realize it was Homestuck.
Didn't post it in the lolitastuck tag because that shit is horrible.

[Anonymous No.7670557]

>>7668534
Some of the art in this tag isn't even that bad, the cosplayers though... eh.

[Anonymous No.7670565]

>>7668540
10/10 most perfect post on /cgl/ right now

[Anonymous No.7670603]

>>7659072
please dont