“Maybe all you lolitas with issues should spend a little more on therapy and a little less on brand.”
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“I wear tone-downed classic lolita to school every day and once the chairwoman said that I dress always so prettily. I couldn’t help but to wonder what would she say if she knew it was called lolita, especially because it is a quite conservative school.”
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“As a male Lolita I base my style choices off of Kaya he is my queen ,but I also adore Misako Aoki so I like mixing both of there styles together in hopes that one day I can meet them and have them acknowledge my style.”
Image:: Kaya (Google)
Reve:: I have been busy with school/finals/etc. and I haven’t been able to make daily confessions like I planned ;n; Sorry about that~
I will try to update on a more timely schedule from now on :)
The text on my Infanta Letter From Paris JSK translates into “To a dear friend (last letter missing), I am coming now to Paris. I like really beautiful line of houses aside a street of city. Let’s go together this time (‘this time’ referring to the time on a clock, and I think they meant ‘next time’).” Though I find it somehow lame, it’s the kind of derp that is also a weird kind of cute. Call me weird, but I think the same thing of every print name with wrong grammar. They’re just even cuter.
Image: Infanata
Kraken: So, this isn’t lolita related at all, but it is relevant to one of the last confessions I posted, so I figured I’d share this story.
So, some of you may recall me mentioning that I was vacationing in London and Paris. Today, I went to the world famous Pere Lachaise Cemetery to visit the graves of my personal idol, Oscar Wilde, and one of my favorite musicians of all time, Frederic Chopin. I visited Chopin first for about twenty minutes and I was pretty horrified by what I saw in that short amount of time. It is a rule of the cemetery, as it should be, that you can’t disrespect the graves in anyway, including sitting, standing, or hanging off of them. These rules are written out clearly in several languages. Chopin’s headstone even has a fence around it, yet people were still putting their kids on top of his grave for photos and hopping over it to get pictures of themselves taken with it (usually sitting or leaning on it), but there was one incident where I couldn’t keep my mouth shut.
This southern guy whipped out a cigar, lighting it just for this picture, and leaned against his grave, over the fence. Ashes from his cigar were falling onto Chopin’s grave and the ground around it, which was kept very nice. I politely said “Um, excuse me, but you’re getting ashes on the grave and you’re not supposed to lean on it, anyway” he just rolled his eyes and shrugged me off, his friend continuing to take pictures and laughing about it. I then said “Wow, that’s not ridiculously tacky and disrespectful or anything” and again, I was shrugged off and dismissed. I was so tempted to rip the cigar from his mouth and throw it in the nearest trash, but obviously that would not have been a good way to handle the situation, so I just glared at him until they finally left after their stupid little photoshoot. When I left Chopin for Oscar Wilde I was so scared I’d see even worse at his grave, but the fencing around his headstone was much more intense so it wasn’t an issue. Along with that, there were children running around, screaming everywhere (another very clear rule is you have to be as quiet as possible) and crawling on top of graves as if they were jungle gyms, which their parents did absolutely nothing about. Apparently, very few people realize there’s a difference between cemeteries and playgrounds.
Anyway, sorry for the off-topic post, but I just found it ironic given the fact I posted a confession about people being disrespectful in cemeteries shortly before I left.
I feel bad for Brolita’s. Girls always whine about how scared they are to join a community. Imagine how hard it is for Brolita’s.
Image: Mana
I may just be the only one but I find it disrespectful when lolitas (or anyone) uses a cemetery as a photo shoot location, especially when they sit on someones tombstone. I understand that it’s for artistic purposes and whatnot but still.
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K: You are far, far from the only one, this has been something that’s irked many lolitas since the dawn of time. Personally, I don’t see how it’s disrespectful if they’re not actually on the headstones.
Lolita saved me from my eating disorder. In “normal” clothes I feel fat and horrible. Lolita frees me from the need to be too thin to be happy. I can have the ugliest fat tummy ever, but no one would ever know because it is tucked under my petticoat. :) Now my lolita friends are trying to starve and purge to fit into brand. I hope they seek treatment. It’d be nice to have my friends with me there. All day outpatient gets really lonely sometimes.
K: You should seriously consider informing their family or healthy friends of their problem. A lot of people don’t realize the horrible long term affects of eating disorders. I know several girls who damaged their bodies for life doing that shit.
I don’t understand why people make such a big fuss about replica’s. It happens everywhere, not just in Lolita fashion. Not even just in fashion in general, but EVERYWHERE. You just have to walk into a clothing store and you see the same patterns or look-a-like items all from different brands all over.
Image: DoL
K: 1. There’s a difference between look a likes and counterfeits Lolita replicas have gotten to the point where they’re full on counterfeits. 2. Actually counterfeits in other fashions ARE big deal, hence why it’s illegal to sell them. Hell, in some countries buying them is against the law, too, and you can actually get jail time and/or fines. Not sure how strict they are about enforcing it for buyers in said countries, but still. 3. Lolita is a niche fashion and the brands make a lot less money than those in other fashions, so replicas actually hurt the brands quite a bit more than counterfeits of LV or Prada or whatever.
