#lolita questions

[rainedragon]

Kera Maniax Volume 11 (2008)

[oldschool-lolita-archive]

hi! I have a couple of very old brand pieces that aren't on lolibrary. where would you suggest I look to hunt down additional info and maybe add them to the database? thanks!

Hello! I’m very excited by this question.

I have a few suggestions depending on how knowledgeable you are on the item- if you aren’t sure where to start at all you might have some luck with narrowing down the general era or release date of the item judging by its label or wash tag.

Various tag guides have been published- this one by How To Become An Angel on neocities and this one on Raine’s Crimson Reflections blog.

But since you have checked lolibrary and it isn’t there, i’m assuming you have some information already (release year or print name or something along those lines). It’s possible to access old versions of lolita brand’s websites through the wayback machine and adjust the year to suit your best guess. From the homepage you can go to the brand catalogue and see the dresses / jsks / undergarments / ect and see if any have descriptions that will match your mystery item (even if there is no stock photo available). For example:

- Angelic Pretty 2002- present

- BTSSB 2000- present

- Metamorphose 2000- present

- Victorian Maiden 2001- present

- Innocent World 2001- 2004

- Innocent World 2005- present

- MmM 2001- 2010

- Atelier Boz 2001-2003

- Atelier Boz 2004 to 2017

Lolibrary is an extensive database, but it doesn’t cover every single piece in existence. If I haven’t found it on lolibrary and I haven’t found any information on the brand’s original website, I will usually turn to my lolita magazines and see if I can spot the item anywhere. Lolita History is a great resource that most of you are already aware of. It’s great for GLB scans and even other niche publications that have been kindly submitted. You can filter by Keywords to narrow down your search.

All of the advice above is if you are the kind of person that likes to take your time with research and look into the item personally. If you don’t have time for that, i’d just post it on social media and ask if anyone knows anything. U can post it here on tumblr or u can send it to me! There will always be someone happy to help, and if it’s something I can’t do myself I will volunteer to submit it to some senior lolibrarians and see what can be revealed.

[gmanmedias]

GET COMFORTABLE, WE’LL BOTH BE HOLLOW BEFORE YOU KNOW IT

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[mymlody]

better alternatives to purchasing from devilinspired

after seeing the 40,000th video of lolitas ordering from sites like devilinspired and my-lolita-dress and seething/coping/fuming/etc, i’ve decided to make a post giving resources for better alternatives if you want to purchase from brands on taobao and receive better pricing and customer service while doing so!

“but why are devilinspired/my-lolita-dress bad?”

they’re not necessarily evil sites that need to be boycotted per se, but they don’t exactly have a high standard for quality control (including selling design and print replicas), price gouge pretty badly, and have had less than stellar customer service, so i thought it would be better to give people resources for smarter purchasing!

here's a 2018 breakdown comparing the prices between the shopping service 42agent and buying through taobao directly

here's a tutorial on how to navigate and purchase from taobao directly without the use of a shopping service/agent

and here is a link to 42agent’s lolita vendor site, 42lolita, which has consistently better brand quality control, lower pricing, and better customer service than DI or MLD

i’ve also crossposted this info to twitter via a thread :)

[horrorlesbion]

[figurecollection]

Raqel Original Character 1/6 Scale by Questioners

[lolitafan1997]

hello! i absolutely adore your blog!! i'm reading lolita now, but still havent finished yet. i saw somewhere that dolores was engaging in homosexual activity in the camp, or humbert thought she was?? what do you think about that?? maybe i'm wrong i dont know..

I think the only thing that happened to Dolores at camp was what she said about Charlie.

Now you can take this three ways.

1. Dolores was telling a lie to look experienced.

2. It was true what happened at camp with Charlie.

3. Humbert made the whole damn thing up to try and excuse himself for raping a minor.

I could honestly believe either of these and that’s the beauty of Nabokov’s writing. He has us so messed up we don’t know what is real or not.

Thank you for the question.

[crrows]

Visited Nanzenji proper this time rather than just looking at the aqueduct and going home. Headdress, cape, heart apron, and skirt made by me. Details in read more.

This set is my child fr. It's so comfy and so cute. Sewing it all was a small journey so I'll split the details in to sections.

Skirt

I saw the fabric in the shop and knew I wanted to make a skirt out of it. I used the beginners skirt pattern from Otome no Sewing 5 and added eyelet lace for extra fun. The advantage of sewing in Japan is that you can actually find a lot of the same laces that Baby and Meta uses in their designs. The lace here is the eyelet lace Baby uses a lot. The skirt is fully elasticated so it's the most comfortable thing in the world. It makes it so hard to go back to Baby's partially shirred skirts that death grip my waist. My only regret with the skirt is that I should have sewn down the ribbon running through the lace as it likes to catch on things. However, that's something I can do in post too.

Cape

The days were getting colder but I wanted to keep showing off the skirt. All my coats are long, so I decided to make a little matching cape for warmth. I traced the pattern off a capelet on an Innocent World coat I own and then adjusted it so it was longer and curved up at the front. The cape is lined with black satin and interlined with thin wool. It's super cute and the wool makes it a little warmer. The front lines of eyelet lace were inspired by Wirehead Shop's designs. I forgot to account for the larger neckhole that the coat capelet had (to account for the giant coat collar) so the one I made tends to shuffle around more than I'd like. In the future, I might add a button closure to the front rather than ribbons, so it fits tighter.

Heart Apron

I fell in love with Meta's old heart aprons with their curved skirt, I thought they added a bit of something different to the usual straight lines of lace you usually find in egl. This apron is a blatant rip off of that, just with torchon lace instead. The heart bib took a while to get right. I spent about an hour drawing the correct heart shape, bought new fabric so the flowers could be in the centre, and then completely changed the heart shape once I'd cut it out. The ties around the neck are a bit of a train wreck - next time I'd just use black grosgrain ribbon. I'd love to try pairing this with a white or black op (or another floral op for full granny curtain pattern clashing), but I'll have to wait for a nice one to pop up on Mercari.

Other Coord Details

Blouse: Baby (Luanna Blouse)

Bloomers: Baby (2005)

Socks: Metamorphose (2023)

Shoes: Doc Martens (90s)

[per1w1nkl3]

lolita is NOT a light hearted book. its a psychological horror and a tragic tragic story. but when humbert humbert describes himself as so beautiful its almost a problem how many women fall to his feet,,, I cant help but giggle a little,,,

[dogsstew]

Billy in the 1992 Chanel chain dress or 1992 Dior palladium dress? Whatever you think fits him

Neither! Hope this helps.

[crappy-danganronpa-confessions]

To be honest

I don’t get takeo’s appeal. She was a bitch the whole time. Is it really based off looks alone?

Let be real

I never seen a fan depict her correctly

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[anna-neko]

˚✧˚ lolita fashion themed ask game ˚♡˚

15: do you have an unpopular opinion about the fashion?

Absolutely! and will just repeat what said before: “JSK/jumperskirt” is a dumbass word! yeah yeah, jumpers in UK english are sweaters, and in US english are sleeveless dresses. Japan made-up a rando word while PINAFORE DRESS is right freakin there! (Meta used it in old non-machine translated english site)

but here's a fresh one - I looooooathe the way the Western side of this fashion insists on over-categorizing everything and placing it into very narrow niche boxes. Oh, you're a sweet lolita but this print isn't pastels colored? well, then, you're a bitter sweet! Corset outside the dress and skirt too short? must be ero; no comments accepted! Your petticoat isn't a "paradefloat" full and the blouse too basic: i dub thee "casual" because reasons

which activates every possible atom of a gremlin in my brain, and I start combining everything to create nonsense such as these

[gmanmedias]

What’s an aesthetic you’ve been into lately?

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[anglerflsh]

Greetings,I have two questions.

1)Any Russian classical literature you enjoy?

2)Is there any Italian classical literature that you could recommend?

I quite liked reading "The Brothers Karamazov" and "War and Peace" as far as russian literature goes - though on that front I'll say I absolutely hated Gogol's "Dead Souls" and that alone almost made me want to give up on russian lit in general lol

I would say italian lit is hard to recommend without knowing what someone's tastes are... especially since a lot of the things I've read are poetry collections (on that front: Montale and D'Annunzio are my favourite recent-er authors, but the true classics such as Petrarca and Leopardi are never forgotten + for theatre plays I loved reading Goldoni's plots). I did really like both "Uno Nessuno Centomila" and "I Malavoglia", and when I was in elementary school I loved both Calvino and Salgari's works - "Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis" too, and the "Decameron", and I still have yet to read "Il nome della rosa" but I can safely recommend that as well.

^ these are from very different genres and centuries, so, I'd suggest looking them up individually and seeing which ones best resonate with your tastes. The only mandatory thing I suggest is the Divine Commedy because I'm predictable and it is that good.

[20dollarlolita]

I'm sorry you're being treated badly by your lolita meet moderators. They sound like they don't understand that "This person rubs me the wrong way" does not mean "This person is a bad person" and furthermore, their "reasons" for your and your friends' expulsions sound like they were made up on the spot by vengeful middle schoolers in the midst of their first friend breakup. Nobody needs that. You're better off without them.

Thank you. I've really appreciated everyone who's reached out to me and said that this shit going down is absolutely nuts.

To everyone who has been saying that we should just make our own Sacramento comm, we did.

We did, at the suggestion of the moderators of the other comm.

Those moderators suggested it to us twice, about 6 weeks apart.

The fact that we made our own community discord, and didn't call it "unofficial", was then listed as one of the reasons they banned us.

I cannot make this shit up.

(If anyone is in the greater sacramento area and wants to join a lolita community that's moderated by people who give warnings before they ban people, please send me an ask. Once we know that you're actually in sacramento and genuinely interested in wearing lolita fashion, I'll get you the invite link. If you're not in the sacramento area, but want to make and wear lolita fashion, and chat with other people who wear and make lolita fashion, I have a discord for that.)

[pokemonlolitaproject]

Q&A?

Would a live Q&A ever be something you guys would want? Edit: This has gotten a few responses, would Discord be better for this eventual Stream?