/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

How did we forget what casual lolita was in the transition between Livejournal and Facebook? I remember on egl/daily_lolita, casual lolita was never a hot button issue. Mininal accesories, flat shoes, a simple hairstyle or natural colored wig, presence of a cardigan or cutsew instead of a blouse, usually skirts or JSKs instead of OPs, light makeup, a bit less "polished" than a perfect coordinate. I also would say proper casual lolita isn't going to be heavy with pints either. Like this: >>9842096 seems more busy than >>9842107 because of the formers use of printed tights. I think the actual design of the dress or skirt needs to come into factor as well. There are some dresses that just cannot be worn in a casual way because of all the extra frills and bows and lace tacked onto it.

A lot of the outfits in this thread, imo, are either straight up lolita (like >>9842229, which is an example of a dress too busy to wear casually) or lolita items worn in a non lolita context (like >>9842184)

From a 2006 post on egl
>Casual Loli in my eyes is about keeping the essential aesthetics of the fashion itself but being slightly more relaxed on certain points! Things like Petticoats, Bloomers, Knee High Socks, Headdress etc... Are not be worried about, but it's still really important to keep the overall shape of the fashion, like you said, certain things can be altered to suit your daily routine, like having T-Shirts instead of full blown blouses but the correct length of skirts & such like are still to be kept in mind…

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