/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9101805
I love this picture, it looks like it's own magic world or something. I know it's not quite old school but it's close enough.

>>8539043
Everyone in the thread was talking about this earlier. A non lifestyler just wears the clothes, and from my experience they usually don't believe the lifestyle adds value to the clothes anf often feel like it's being fake. A lifestyler tries to add old fashioned or quaint and feminine and sometimes a little bit fantastic touches to their everyday life. A lot of people who are into the lifestyle seem to feel it's what makes Lolita a subculture and that without it Lolita would just be a regular fashion.

>>8539543
EGL dying did contribute to the death of the lifestyle I believe. It's a very broad idea, and there is no right or wrong way to approach it. It's a little different for every individual person, but the ideals are always the same.

A big starting point of the Lolita lifestyle beginner was trying to learn to curb their swearing in order to refine their behavior and be more elegant and polite. Now I have no real problem with people swearing but I do think it's incredibly rude when done in public and especially around children (and honestly I often think it makes people look rather dumb) and personally I try my hardest to not swear as much as possible because it's not something I want people to remember about me and I want to be a more polite person. It's not too hard to do once you become mindful of it, and an easy and Lolita appropriate way to try to stop is to replace your swears with old fashioned and outdated curses and slang that don't carry the weight of a modern curse.

You can be a lifestyler and have interests that aren't Lolita, and to try to force yourself to be someone you're not isn't the idea. In an earlier post someone quoted Princess Skye saying that Your Lolita lifestyle is personal and to change yourself into something you aren't is just conforming to someone else's ideas of who you should be, and that isn't suppose to be what the lifestyle is about.

>>8282334
I dunno if this is meant to be an insult or a complement but either way, I haven't seen this movie yet but would like to even though everyone hates it for being historically inaccurate.

I'd like to many a little cheese sounding comment, since a lot of people's nostalgia involve Lolita lifestyle topics. When I first got into it, it helped me to become a much better person. I was a lonely kid, I grew up with no friends (still don't have much for friends, the only one I had I fear we're starting to drift apart) and my life took a bad turn right before I discovered Lolita. The lifestyle stuff reminded me who I was again, because I had really forgotten when I went through a lonely period, and it allowed me feel connected to other people because so many people shares such common interest and ideas. Even though the lifestyle things have fallen out of favor it still makes me warm inside and makes me feel like I'm a part of something and less alone.

And that's my cheese for the day. Have a pretty picture.