#mori kei coord

[forestdwelll]

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wishing my prairie skirt was here already so i could do two skirt layers beneath the dress today but i digress ( ∩´ ᐜ `∩)♡

[littlemoriflower]

°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ Yours, truly.

[normcorenecro]

from pinterest

[petite-madeline]

It's been a while since I posted. Here's an outfit from a bit ago that I never shared anywhere.

Hoping to come back to tumblr and get start posting fashion and expand out to books too, since that's another hobby that I really enjoy and want to find a community for 💖

[fairyblueberry]

🎂🫖🐇

[the-woods-call-me]

Slightly wrinkled coord from today~<3

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Went to the secondhand bookstore and found not only a cheap omnibus of the Vampire Hunter D light novels but also my "Star Wars Holy Grail": a like-new, hardcover, English language version of Dressing A Galaxy! I damn near flipped out! Did have to pay $250, but considering the English books go anywhere between $400 to $4,000 on Ebay when I looked right in the store today (lol) I consider this good enough. I almost still can't believe I've got my own copy after over a decade of searching!

[cheapieclassic]

🌲Hello friends :) 🌲

I have returned from hibernation to offer you the crinkliest of un-ironed linen co-ords featuring my vintage tablecloth apron and my green ticking op 🌱

🌲Green ticking op made from thrifted ikea bedsheet, self draft pattern. Styled with selfmade vintage tablecloth apron, refurbished woven bag and thrifted wool cardigan from next.

That cute little apron is made of damaged leftovers from the apron I made for my friend 💖

[wwwkun003]

first image isnt egl but i felt very pretty and cool. trying to ease into being more lenient with myself on styling and stuff- i want it to be fun for me. i have a really strong urge to indulge in things i love lately- i cant wait for my boyfriend to live with me so we can do that together which will be very very soon... second image are some bloomers by Wirehead :>

[garden-of-eva]

(source: Cawaii brand snapshots, now defunct; thank you @forestsandtea for archiving them)

[forestdwelll]

feeling really good about this one (๑>◡<๑) my mori coordinate for today ♡( ˊᵕˋ )♡

[daisy-mori]

Outfit from a warm summer’s day to picnic with friends~

Dress: Kaneko

Hat: Taobao

Everything else was thrifted.

[littlemoriflower]

I went out with my best friend today, and she said I looked "omega mori" in this coord (ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ.ﾟ

[hyallulonelyhime]

hyahime presents: J-Fash ghosts of the past - DOLLY-KEI.

not at all connected to the 'living doll' stereotype, "dolly" is merely the popular name of a style related to cult party kei and mori kei.

The pioneer for this fashion scene was the store Grimoire, which featured clothes and accessories antique dolls would only dream of wearing. Vintage, haunting and more mature than you'd expect, dolly-kei was heavily inspired by eastern european aesthetics.

The style was most popular around 2010.

Come with me and explore the tombs of this no longer active style.

What caused it to fall off?

perhaps the same reason for its initial popularity: dolly gained attention for having a little bit in common with a lot of other jfash styles. Many lolitas were interested, and some goths realized they liked certain elements too. With the lack of guidelines and specific rules, the freedom that made it possible for so many subcultures to enjoy dolly also made it lack defining features. It became harder to say what was dolly instead of mori, goth or lolita.

F Yeah Lolita wrote, in 2010:

"As the style is much less defined as Lolita is, as well as being very new, it's difficult to pinpoint what exactly makes something Dolly Style. It's a little bit Lolita, a little bit Mori, and a little bit Gothic. The skirt length ranges from full length to very hip mini skirts."

From the style's livejournal community, we see the same concern in december:

When seeing discussions of grimoire and dolly, I saw the tights being mentioned a lot.

But the hats, tessels and furs stood out to me more.

In 2015, Grimoire's 7th birthday party showed little signs of these traits spotted earlier, which had helped make dolly 'unique'.

Most of the fashion was gothic, girly.. but not specifically dolly. Or maybe it was.

I tried going to the grimoire webpage but it's down and this post is getting long: i'll tell you where this ends.

Grimoire is now focused in a more mature audience and it has been reported that their clothes are more 'normie' and mainstream-like.

A man will die, but not his ideas: in harajuku, many designers and fashionistas have been spotted in mori-like clothes with tassels and tights and cream coords that look like an old doll's.

The last mention of dolly in tokyofashion.com is 2019.

[jiainokaitou]

A little fun fact, in Indonesian fashion communities there's two cute terms to refer to color choices for a girl's choice of coord.

First is 'Cewek Kue' (Cake girls) which refers to girls wearing pastel, bright color ways that resembles an icing on a cake (think of yumekawaii and sweet girly), and the other is 'Cewek Bumi' (Earthly girls) which refers to girls who wear soft and mature down to earth and natural colors (like with retro girly or mori kei).

Either way, this kind of terms only refers to the color choice of a style, and since I wore casual with pastel colors just as often and personally didn't like using terms like 'jir*ikei' and focus too much on girlykei substyles, I'd rather refer to my own personal style as the above as 'cake girls style' (or if you're not a girl, 'cake style' works as much).

[fairyblueberry]

🍀🌰🗝️

[the-woods-call-me]

Today's Monochrome-ish Coord

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