#RULES OF FASHION

[brownsugar4hersoul]

[nanmeo]

everything is more than surreal

[cheezy-whizz]

my fashion inspiration btw

[occudo]

Royal Adviser to the Queen Mother

All right, hear me out - french hood Annabelle Cane

[creaman]

Peacocking noun [u]

1. Ostentatious dress or behaviour employed by a man in an attempt to impress women.

… or another man.

[mermaidstylediaries]

from Jupiter, with love

[care666bear]

[pluvionpc]

happy @barrissday! a little love and appreciation since i’m officially caught up in all (tv/movie) things star wars >:)

these outfits are based on designs done by merihry on ig and posted by the islamic fashion institute. they are an absolutely stunning set among many awesome collections, and i strongly recommend you check out both the artist and the rest of the inst’s work!

[journey-to-the-attic]

the new nightmare is cool but i think not putting them in hanfu was an missed opportunity

(+ long hair version that i wasn't as sure about)

[margueritapassion0]

PS2 aesthetics: "Rule of Rose" (2006)

[20dollarlolita]

It took me a while to realize this but one of the things that I love about lolita fashion is that the "EGL rules" that everyone loses their shit over are actually spelled out.

Growing up, I didn't get a new wardrobe every time fads changed and I didn't get trendy clothes from the outlets, so I was never online with the fashion. I was always "doing it wrong" and no one was ever willing to explain why the things I was wearing weren't cool or popular or not weird. There were rules of fashion in 6th grade, for sure, but no one was going to tell you what they are. No one will explain them to the weird kid who wants to understand it.

Once I was an adult with much more power to say, "I'm not comfortable with this, so I'm going somewhere else, and doing something else," I found an absolutely beautiful fashion, one in which, "so tell me what rules I'm breaking here, and tell me why this doesn't look right," is just a thing you can say.

No one's expecting the kids who cannot read a room to "just figure it out." It's just part of western egl culture: when someone says you're dressed wrong, it's their responsibility to articulate to you what's wrong and why.

"I don't like that EGL has rules," ignores that mainstream fashion also has rules, it's just that they're constantly changing rules that you're expected to pick up on your own.

And the rules of EGL aren't hard and fast. You're allowed to pick them up and play with them and build them into what you need, but they'e there to fall back on and get guidance from. You can look at a specific rule and say, "I'm going to accomplish this in <whatever> way, which may or may not be the conventional way," and still find freedom of self-expression.

But I cannot explain, as someone who can't "just figure out" why humans behave a certain way, can't learn social norms by doing things, and can't let go of the 6th grade frustration of finaly getting the cool shoes and then wearing the cool shoes and STILL NOT BEING COOL because I was wearing the cool shoes WRONG with the WRONG PANTS, boy fucking howdy do I like being part of a fashion where the rules are all clear.

[shiningbean]

Hello M*rvel are you going to give me the full photo of Agatha in Edwardian fashion or do I have to do everything around here myself?

The ref of course:

[catboybiologist]

Okay but I am legit in love with this bra

It's a pushup bra, but more than that, I think it's the first bra that I've gotten that's actually properly sized as opposed to just S/M/L/etc like they have for sports bras and bralettes

The added cleavage doesn't hurt either though LOL

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Dean Martin, Janice Rule and Senta Berger on the set of The Ambushers (1967)

[mxdae]

Okay, I made another version of this joke jersey.

Redbubble | Threadless

[blackisdivine]

Eva Apio