/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10390417
> Clothing for girls was, for a long time, just adult dresses but shorter or smaller, nothing else

This isn't true at all, while there are some similarities, young girls clothing had many differences from adult clothing. Not even mentioning the differences between how children styled their hair. The closer we get to the late victorian/edwardian era, children and adult clothing got more different. And dress shapes changed a lot during the many decades of the victorian era. Children also didn't wear corsets or shapewear, those structural garments are essential for historical fashion.

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/costume/nunn14.html

>The practice of dressing children in adult styles gradually declined during thc second half of the 19th century. Boys benefited from more convenient and comfortable clothes earlier than girls, who had to wait until the late 1880s before enjoying clothes as casy as their grandmothers' had been or which began to resemble boys' styles rather than women's, although there was a considerable current of feeling against squeezing girls into corsets during the 1860s.

Just say lolita takes some inspiration from historical clothing. You don't have to be specific. Especially when even classic is so far away from direct historical influence and blends together multiple different eras into one outfit, most historical fashion enthusiasts have no interest in lolita.