![]() ![]() You’ll wear a petticoat with all your lolita looks, so it might be worth it to buy a nice one. Once you know that you want to wear lolita for more than just one coordinate, you will want to get a good petticoat that’s made to be the proper shape for your looks. The lolita silhouette requires the skirt to have a pretty specific shape, and that shape comes from the skirt being supported by a petticoat. So let’s talk about what those check boxes are:Ģ] Petticoat. Trying and failing is better than no effort. Or, if you want a shorter version, putting something IN the checkbox for your coord, even if it’s not perfect, tells people who want to help you that you know something should be in that check box. I couldn’t eat either meal, but the fact that friend #1 put effort into keeping the food accessible for me means that they earned the right for me to give them a second chance. The short version of a long story is that I still eat at friend #1’s house, and don’t eat at friend #2’s house, or really hang out with them anymore. I had another friend who cooked shrimp tacos and told me I could just pick out the shrimp (not how food allergies work, btw) because she wanted shrimp tacos. Best Ling Ling potstickers and fried Spam I’ve ever had, btw. She was very apologetic, and offered me the other food in her house. She didn’t realize that scallops were shellfish, having never seen them not frozen in a bag or prepared on a plate. One time, I had a friend who had carefully prepared a dinner that she thought was safe for me, but that had scallops in it. My friends and I invite each other over to dinner pretty frequently. Why? Well, let’s talk about my shellfish allergy. If you don’t have a good headpiece, it will look better to have a less-than-ideal one than it will be to go without one. You will want to include all seven of those components, even if you know that what you’re putting in that category isn’t all that perfect. In your coordinates, you will want to check all seven of those boxes. The seven main components of a lolita coord are 1 ) skirt, 2) petticoat, 3) not shoulders, 4) headgear, 5) socks, 6) wrists, and 7) the rest. Did you have items 1-7 on it? Can you add them, or at least a thing to indicate that you understand you should have something? This is also a good thing to run past when you’re building a coord and think it’s almost done. This is just identifying the components of the lolita coordinate. This is not about how to make sure that the elements of your coordinate go together, or how to dress certain ways for certain styles. But it’s important that you try to make it a complete coord. One of the first things to note is that your first coord will not be perfect. It’s often shortened “coord” or occasionally “co-ord”, though that second phrasing is falling out of fashion. A complete lolita outfit is called a coordinate. You’re allowed to have fashion interests outside of lolita. All the love in the world won’t make it lolita, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be loved. ![]() You can be proud of it, and you can wear it, and you can love it. Even if you attempted lolita, and it didn’t make the mark, if you love that look, then you love that look. You’re allowed to love looks that you make that aren’t lolita. Just learn to follow them.Īnd remember the other rule, and keep this very close to your heart. So here is my first piece of tough love: Don’t bitch about the rules. I want to be nice and welcoming to new people in the fashion, but I also want to be really honest here, because lying to new people doesn’t help them. It’s also like how the first thing you ever cooked was probably Top Ramen or mac and cheese, and probably wasn’t traditional chocolate eclairs or egg yolk ravioli. You can think of it like training wheels on your bicycle when you learned how to ride it. But you want to start out by using the rules to help you make a look. It’s a little bit less like how we think of punk fashion, and a bit more about how we think of white tie attire.īefore you bitch about the rules, I just want to say that, once you start following the rules, you’ll learn how to effectively break the rules. A lot of mainstream fashion tends to have a sort of general look that you’re trying to reach, lolita fashion has some very specific requirements for what should be present in a lolita look. One of the things that’s really cool about lolita fashion is the way that it’s structured, and the “rules” of lolita outfits. So you’re interested in wearing lolita fashion? That’s super cool! It’s a really fun fashion to wear, and a really cool community to be a part of. First of all, and this will become relevant: I am allergic to shellfish. ![]()
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