I bought GosuLoli 5 so now I have patterns to make pretty clothes. I have not the time or patience to sit through a sewing class but I can't sew so obviously I have not the skill to draft my own with not even a base pattern that fits well to start off with. yay for pattern books. My stitches may not be the neatest but so far no one has been able to ( Read more... )

As you may have guessed from my previous entry, I do not take kindly to rules. In response to all those girls being so picky about the lolita style, I shall not conform. Sure I'll look pretty and elegant, but I shall not truly follow the rules. I only do what I want to. I am a study to the common observer. Sometimes I am the image of elegance and ( Read more... )

Someone called me a cunt. I thought it was funny. I was just walking by and he said that. I wore a really cute fluffy white skirt with a red design on it which I designed and made myself and the same top I wore at Otakon. A lot of people made some very lovely comments on my outfit. It was just that one person. Everyone else was very nice or meant ( Read more... )

It would probably be best if you read from the beginning since these entries are set up in a sequence.

Being followed by overprotective parents is not fun. Not fun at all. My friend was late so I had to wait until Saturday to get away from my parents. In the meantime my mother gawked at all the scantily clad and the ill-fitted. She was constantly whispering in my ear about this person or that person. Needless to say my Dad was perfectly fine with it ( Read more... )

So I finally finished the skirt and all of its underthings. For my top I'm using the top half of a sundress pattern and adding decorative lacing in the front to make it a bit more interesting. I couldn't find a brocade I liked for my top so I looked around for an alternative. I ended up with a 70% opaque white fabric with white designs on it. I ( Read more... )

So basically I just threw out all the research and just did what I planned from the beginning. It's too hot for sleeves and multiple layes plus I couldn't find proper shoes. I did add the headdress, although my friend was trying to design a headdress for me from the beginning. I sewed the over skirt first so that I could start the embroidery. The ( Read more... )

So after spending much time and effort looking for inspiration, I havn't planned exactly what I am going to do but I have enough of an idea to get started. A few weeks ago I got a book on Rococo embroidery from the library so that I can make the flowers I planned to put on my skirt. I want to do a corset style top so I got a pattern from WalMart. ( Read more... )

Otakon is coming up and so is giving me an excuse to dress lolita. My parents don't want me to stick out since they think me to have a delicate disposition that cannot handle being ostracized. I suppose this is true in part but the beauty of college next year is that people don't care as much and if they do then there is plenty of space for me to ( Read more... )

It is strange for me to ever want to be a lolita. I have always tried to look older than my body appears. I'm 17 but people many times mistake me for 12 or 14. If the goal of lolita is to look young and innocent then I am always lolita no matter what I wear. "A princess is a princess even in jeans" People may guard their language in my presence or ( Read more... )