/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Since the actual dream dress thread is basically just WTB thread number 2, thought it'd be nice to put discussion here.

>How do you decide something is a dream piece vs. just a general WTB?
>How many dream pieces are you currently looking for?
>How many have you already found?
>What’s the longest you’ve been looking for a particular piece? What is it?
>Do your dreams change often, or not at all?
>Is it usually love at first sight, or do you have pieces that have grown on you and then become dreams?
>Are you willing to pay anything at all for a dream piece, or do you set limits (like never above retail)?
>How often do you look for your dream pieces?
>Where/how have you been most successful in finding them?
>Any particularly devastating moments where you’ve missed getting a dream piece?
>Related stories involving dream pieces, etc.

>>9485664
I'm a lone lolita and don't post coords online. I just get worried about replacing certain dresses and how hard they are to track down. They're much hardier than all the chiffon, but they're still anywhere from older than me to just a bit younger than my little sister. It feels like wearing a collector's item so I'm much more cautious with light items than I am with newer things. I can look through old GLBs and want to buy every single thing on the page. The older the items the better they fit as well. Meanwhile almost all I buy new is the occasional IW and Boz. I rarely get excited looking at coordinates online anymore even. It's not even nostalgia at all, I had seen it before but I hadn't actually got into lolita until a few years ago. It's like discovering a live performance you really love but will never be able to see. Sure there's recordings, but it'll never be the same.

I was just feeling childish last night from irl stuff, apparently I still am.