#egl sales

[wollfling]

🎀 lolita sales post 🎀

A little mix of styles, I'll post below the cut. I'm open to offers and whatever doesn't sell I'll probably list to lacemarket? Prices in usd, I will provide photos to anyone interested! I just didn't want to go through the hassle of photographing everything. I'll state the condition and notes I have on each piece~ everything has been purchased secondhand.

I've linked lolibrary entries for sizing and release info. Feel free to make offers!!! I based my prices from quick searches on other sites, but I'm flexible. Depending on the item and country I would estimate 20-40$ shipping (im in canada)

I dont really have formal feedback for selling clothes anymore since I haven't in forever, but I do have an online shop where I sell art prints, so I have experience selling things online and whatnot.

Metamorphose Sailor Short Sleeve OP in ivory (2011) - $100

Missing bow (left photo), but still has the tie (like right photo) this dress is so lightweight and perfect for summer, I just don't like how the sleeves fit on my arms. No noticeable damage. I washed it but i havent worn it out!

Btssb Tartan Check Jacket in green (2005) - $180

No damage, only tried on by me. Another wonderful piece but too tight in the arms for me. It's soft, but polyester. I'm honestly so sad about letting this piece go I adore it, but I need to stop holding onto things I won't wear!

Btssb Ribbon Sherbet Skirt in pink (2010) - $40

Really adorable skirt, it's shorter and perfect for casual wear. You can't tell in the stock photos, but the fabric is woven with glitter! Again, washed but I haven't worn it besides trying on.

Aatp Sylvester vest (2011 or 2013) - $80

I think its the women's size, as there is so spider tag. I had forgotten and then realized upon inspecting while writing this that one of the back panel buttons had come off and I must have stored it somewhere to keep safe. I'll look for it (I know I have it somewhere lol) on the offchance I can't find it though I will discount accordingly. Worn by me and washed, there is no other noticeable damage.

Aatp Justin pants in red (2018) - $100

Only tried on by me- I'm going to keep it real with you I'm just too bottom heavy. The waist is full of room but the leg measurement (in average clothing sizing proportion) is really small. I don't understand why they would add so much extra room in the waist and not make the thighs adjustable at all. The sizing doesn't match up with the lolibrary entry, the waist can stretch up to 90cm, and is about 76cm not stretched... the inside measurement of the leg cuff is maybe 46 cm (the fabric is thick so measures 50 on the outside if that makes sense) when wearing this, the top of the waistband was floating around but made a sharp ^ down the back, these shorts will not be flattering if you have wider hips. All of that said they are really beautiful, I adore the fabric, but the lolibrary entry is very misleading!

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I've run out room for photos in this post and need to locate the second blouse, but I have 2 white bodyline blouses and the strawberry gingham skirt I might bundle all together for idk 50$? I'll have to find them all first, but in case anyone is interested.

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Other pieces I've been going back and forth on selling are:

victorian maiden velveteen frill bustier in wine (2002)

Metamorphose velveteen high waist ribbon jsk in red (2004) (missing detachable bust panel)

But tbh I can't come up with a reasonable price I'd be willing to sell them at. On the off chance they are someone's #1 dream items and you'd like to make an offer I am open for it but I might turn it down. I would be open to trades for similar items too though! Such as another vm bustier or old meta velveteen op/jsk of the era.

[fossette-promenade]

model-san coords are so inspo to me 😭

[strawberryteabunny]

my friend and I went to the opening of Nicolette Lim’s show at Happy Gallery Chicago yesterday! Everything was so beautiful 🖤🥀

I love how three-dimensional the art pieces are and parts of the drawings/frames remind me a ton of lolita rectangle headdresses <3 This is the second show we’ve been to at this gallery and they’ve both been so cool!! The artist also does tattoos and has a tumblr blog @nicolettelim-tattoo

Coord rundown:

JSK: BTSSB Velveteen Frill JSK

Blouse: Gunne Sax

Bloomers: Fan+Friend

OTKs: Metamorphose

Headdress: unknown

Shoes: Vivienne Westwood

Usakumya: BTSSB ૮꒰ ˶• ༝ •˶꒱ა ♡

[squirreltastic]

Elegy Skirt For Sale: Resplendent Nightmare Ruby colorway

cw:spider, insect

My first real Lolita piece and it needs a new home! My body has changed since I bought it so I hope I can find someone that will love for it.

Comes with original tags and care instructions, and matching head bow. Original buttons and zipper. No pockets.

I got to wear it once and its been hanging pretty much the whole time.

Pet home, no smoking of any kind. Maybe dusty.

Waist:

From seam to seam it's 19 inches meaning 38 circumference before shiring! Shiring is in pic 3. (96 cm) If I had to guess/try to remember I would say up to 43inches (109 cm)

Length:

27 inches give or take (68cm)

Lolibrary

Asking price: tbh 20$ basically covering the cost of shipping. Sadly no international shipping at this time.

Money via PayPal

Disclaimer: this post is in no way affiliated with Tumblr or any other company.

[lichdolly]

Angelic Pretty - Beating Heart JSK in pink, black, and red (2009)

[seams-witch]

it is the year of our lord 2023... i am 30 years old. after 8 years, ive been able to snatch the L size of melty ribbon chocolate in bitter. im ready to perish.

also peek my ap chocolate jacquard collection. 😭 the original brown and mint are still the M size. ill snatch the og brown and mocha in the L size within my lifetime.

[nuzzle]

breakfast at tiffany's, along with afternoon tea. had the pleasure of indulging in the most delicious finger sandwiches ever! the pastries were so soft and buttery smooth, they made for a perfect snack. i would have much preferred to wear a tiffany blue coord for the occasion, but all of my sax items were quite a few shades too light in comparison.. maybe next time!

[yamneko]

Quick snap of clothes for sale. Prices are pretty negotiable. Please comment/MSG for detailed sizing, brand or other details of any piece you are interested in.

More detailed post of items may or may not come, so if you have any serious interest in items, please msg!

Quick notes: 3 and 6 are the same item, different colors. 10 and 11 are the same item, different colors.

Items range from SM to L Bodyline, offbrand, to Innocent World, Victorian Maiden, Fan+Friend, Putumayo

Allergen warning: Home has cats and dog, but are kept away from the clothes.

edit: 2 and 7 are SOLD

[angel-egg-egl]

now available: Rococo Rose Corduroy Skirts. Right now there's only one available, but I may have enough fabric to make a second one. The fabric is very similar to my other corduroy rose skirts, so it's very lightweight and soft and suitable for most seasons. Fully shirred and lined as always, 100% cotton. I tried doing a self fabric frill and used some braid I've had lying around for a while. It's made for classic, but the colour is dark enough it may also be okay with a moitie-style gothic coord. Comes with a surprise bonus item that is not available for sale.

AngelEgg EGL

[peachjugo]

Boy Princess is a comic I drew last summer about my experience with femininity and fashion (specifically EGL fashion) as a trans guy.

This comic is really special to me, I drew it while attending a workshop on Graphic Memoir comics taught by Mel Gillman at the Center for Cartoon Studies. I don't think I would've been able to make this comic if it weren't for the week-long workshop, and I wouldn't have been able to attend that without the help of CCS' BIPOC Scholarship.

To be frank, if I'd attempted to draw this comic on my own time, I probably would've A) Never finished it or B) Taken a hundred times longer to make it. Even with that, although I planned, drew, and inked this comic within one week, it's still taken me almost one year to edit, color, and format for print as well as design the cover, write transcripts of the pages (which by the way, if anyone has any feedback on what I could improve in my writing please tell me!!!), and write posts for social media.

Why'd it take so long? Because of life I guess! I'm not very good at sharing the work in process either, I'd rather post something when it's completely finished. Maybe I'll get better about that in the future, or maybe I'll just keep posting every 6 months. Either way I'm proud of myself for making this comic, and I'm eternally grateful for the supportive feedback from loved ones as well as instructors and classmates from the workshop!!!

I have copies of Boy Princess available for sale in my shop (as well as copies of Candlebot Comics #1, which has around 30 comics in it, wowza!) I hope you'll consider buying a copy and I hope you enjoy reading it :)

[fanplusfriend]

Retro #ancientEgypt #goddess #fashionstyle #EGL #coordinate.

[fyeahlolita]

Ancient Lolita AMA???????

Back when I was an EGL mod, and we used to deal with massive amounts of truly dumb shit and frustrating people, we used to always say "One day, when we're not mods any more, we should write a tell-all book about all this shit". But now it's been so long I barely remember the drama lol

But if anyone has any questions from a decade+ ago that they've been dying to know the answer to???? I do remember literally begging Miss Angelic Pretty (You know the one!) to not attempt to sue EGL because she refused to be a normal human being and ask us in an official capacity to ban replica sales. IIRC that's why we banned replicas on EGL, to get ahead of the official threats of being sued by AP, honestly not that I think she would have actually done it, although she probably would have sent a cease & desist and it would have been very obnoxious if she managed to get the whole comm deleted out of some sort of spite. I think we eventually mentioned it was AP who requested that we stop allowing people to post replicas on the comms, but I don't think we mentioned that we were literally begging her to just ask us like a normal person. Idk if people knew that being sued was on the table lol It's weird because banning replicas was SUCH MASSIVE DRAMA at the time, but I don't think anyone gives a fuck about replicas any more? Like if people weren't around at the time, I don't know if they can even comprehend the drama and anger surrounding it. And it was like a non-stop barrage of questions about just totally unrelated stuff people were ready to be mad about, then they would get mad when we couldn't think up a perfect answer for them lol

Like so much righteous fury because we said you couldn't sell your old worn out bootleg Milky Chan dress for $40 on this one particular livejournal community.

[fossette-promenade]

puurfect old-school coord :3

[clown-femme]

you can display the egl blouses you have for sale like this if you want to i guess!

[omgitzlongdennis]

Lolita stores to buy from! very long under cut

This focuses a lot on dresses, but everything here sells other things!

Disclaimer: I don't have a lot these, because I have a very low budget. I have to save up like 3 months for one dress.

My main one! I can say firsthand this is incredibly reliable, it sells y2k and punk stuff too.

Lots of sizes! Downside is that you can't filter for different subcultures.

Not even gonna include images for this. This has OVER 500 PAGES OF DRESSES. This may be all you need.

Another giant one, this one based off community. Quality varies due to this, but you'll probably get a lot of good ones.

INSANELY affordable. 50 dollars for the first two, 99 dollars for the last two. Lots of stuff for sale too!

There's definitely more, but this post is already pretty long. Have fun shopping!

[20dollarlolita]

Why you shouldn't buy lolita fashion at anime conventions:

AKA how I broke my own personal rules, and how I've been punished for not listening to Past Me.

Short version of a long story is that I went to an anime con, and there was a booth selling brandname lolita. I bought some, and it wasn't what I was told it would be. I should have known this, and I'm going to go into why exactly I should have known this.

So, let's start off with an economics lesson: if you sell something for less money than you paid for it, you lose money on that sale. While there's plenty of times that you might want to sell something for less money than you paid for it--a situation I'm going to call "cashflow is sometimes more important than profit"--you generally have a large booth at the dealer's hall at an anime convention because you are there to make money. This logically means that you're going to purchase items at an anime convention for more money than the vendor paid for them. This means that an item that's being sold for the same cost that the item costs from the manufacturer is going to be an item that the vendor purchased for less money than the cost of buying it from the manufacturer.

Now, if you're buying lolita fashion from someone who wears lolita fashion, or you're buying something from a booth being run by the maker of the fashion (or an official reseller), it's very possible that you could get things for equal cost to getting it officially. But, if you don't think the seller is able to get the garments as new-with-tags at a wholesale price, then you should really question if a garment is being sold as NWT at the price you'd pay to get it from the vendor.

So, ignoring that economics lesson was mistake number 1, on a list of many mistakes I made.

Mistake number two was remembering that this booth was, at the con previous to this one, selling lolita fashion at about $100 markup per dress, and had several garments that were replicas, and yet not having that be a big red flag that chased me the heck away from them. I kind of assumed that they had understood that doing so was a mistake, and I also assumed that if I could prove that a dress was not a replica, that it was legitimately the thing that it was being sold as. I should have known damn well that there IS a market for people at anime conventions to buy replicas. I literally said in the panel that I'd hosted not 20 minutes prior to my purchase that one thing that anime convention sellers will do is to take advantage of people who know that EGL is expensive, but who are not experienced enough to know what is normal expensive and what is a rip off.

Mistake number three was not taking the vendor's packaging as a huge red flag. They had the garments packed in plastic bags. I asked to see the inside tags and the wash tags, and she showed them to me, and they were legitimate. I didn't get a chance to inspect the whole dress outside of the plastic. However, it was listed as new with tags, and I could see the tag. I looked up the item number on the tag, and it was the item number for the dress in question.

Mistake number four was not asking my friends questions when I was concerned about the status of the lace. I have never bought brand new lolita, and I wasn't sure if the lace being kind of crushed was just normal. My friend who were there would have told me if I asked, but I didn't ask. The lace looked like lace does when you wash the dress and then don't re-shape the lace before you let it air-dry.

Mistake number five was not backing out of this transaction when the thing that should have been the biggest red flag happened. Quick reminder that I have hearing loss and so places with lots of background noise are very difficult to navigate. I also spent all of 2019 with my hand in a thumb spica and often forget that I can now move it like a normal hand. The woman running the booth often had her son translate for her. The tag for the dress that I wanted had fallen off. I held up the dress and asked her if the dress was the same cost as the other dresses, and held up fingers to indicate how many dollars it was. However, I'm pretty sure I forgot to tuck my thumb into my hand, so it looked like I was asking a price that was more than I was actually asking for. We agree on the price (or so I think) and she hands me a phone to pay with Square. The amount is a lot more than I expect it to be, and I tell her that I don't want it if it's that price. She grabs her translator and I tell him what's going on, and that I don't want the dress if the price is what she showed me. He just grabs the phone, writes out a price that's $100 less than what the woman running the booth gave me, and I pay.

If they have enough flexibility on the price such that they can just knock $100 off the price, and the dress is being sold as new with tags, well, that's a big red flag. That's a "the best movie of all is a masterpiece of art called Human Centipede" level red flag.

But, at the end of the day, I got caught up in the experience of getting to buy lolita fashion in person, and I made some pretty dumb decisions.

Anyway, let's go over the "buying lolita fashion at an anime con" rules that I ignored here:

Always remember that the vendor has to make a profit on their items. They had to have bought the item for less money than they're selling it for. Think about why and how they were able to do that.

Don't buy something without closely inspecting it. Definitely don't buy something that the vendor won't allow you to inspect. If they're asking a price over $75 or so, they should be understanding when you want to make sure it doesn't have flaws.

Ask questions. Again, if they're asking for more than $50 or so, they should be understanding when you ask for information. While the dress I bought was in a bag and with the original tags attached to the garment and prominently displayed, no one ever actually said the words, "oh yes, this is new with tags." While they were obviously implying that, I'm pretty sure that if I called them out on it, they'd pull a "we never said that!" card. If I'd explicitly asked, "is this item brand new?" and they said yes, then they would have actually lied to me. Asking, "this is a really good price! Where did you get these from?" isn't particularly rude.

Remember that you can back out of the transaction at any time before they run your card. If it feels wrong, don't commit unless you've found something to make you stop feeling like that. It doesn't matter if they've already punched the total into their card reader or if they've already bagged up the item. It's your money, and you can decide not to use it.

One of the seller's biggest tools is to create a feeling of urgency or scarcity. Source: My job is sales and I do this a lot. This isn't necessarily a lie, especially in a convention context. There's going to be other people looking at the same item, and if you walk away, you might not be able to buy it later. However, do not let that feeling override any other feelings of red flags. Be honest: when you left your house or hotel this morning, did you plan on buying a lolita dress? If you weren't planning on getting it, then you didn't lose something if it sells. There's probably also not as much scarcity or urgency as the vendor is going to imply, especially at higher price points. Yes, a lot of people have been looking at the dress, but how many of them are going to spend $400+ on an impulse buy. Most of the people going, "Oh, that's so pretty!!" are going to be people who back out when they see the cost.

If it feels too good, then it probably is. While it's nice to get a cool bargain, if this feels like you're getting the best deal of your entire life, then that's a big heckin' concern.

Do remember that the vendor might be doing you a service in bringing the product to the convention. Buying a single item from Taobao can be expensive, so if a vendor bought a huge lot of items from Taobao and marks up the price, it's not unreasonable for you to see that marked up price as worth it, since it includes the cost of them performing the service of getting the items to where you can buy it locally.

There's also a lot of reasons why a smaller vendor might be selling an item where it's clearly being sold for less than normal prices. If there's an emotional reason to let a dress go, that will often drive the price down. If the seller needs money right now (cashflow-not-profit), that'll drive the price down. If it's an item that they later realized they didn't want, or an item that didn't fit, they might let it go for less. Remember that, if you're buying the item, it's reasonable for you to ask why it's such a good deal.

Anyway, I really don't mind buying a dress that's been washed and has some stains on it. I do that all the time. I do mind that it's a dress that I was told was new, but now I need to do that. I'm pretty pissed about this, both at the seller and at myself. I know better. I KNOW better. It's absolutely the seller's fault for staging these like they're new, and hiding the damage by discouraging people from inspecting them, but I fucking KNOW not to fall for that.

Anyway, don't be like me, buy your Brand from the seller or people who have a legitimate reason for selling it so cheap.