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Let's share our happy stories! Did you have an unexpectedly good experience wearing Lolita somewhere? Finally track down your dream dress? Make a new friend through the fashion?

Share it all here!

>> No.7538085
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>>7538076
I recently made a few new friends in my comm, and have become really close to one girl in particular, we share a lot of similairities outside of lolita and have been hanging out outside of meets, when we can. I think I might of found my lolita bff op and someone to go to concerts with.

>> No.7538429

It'll be long and I'm not sure if anyone cares, but

>be 13 yo me
>very into visual kei, find out about lolita
>mix gothic lolita with visual kei, very itastic but living in South America in 2003 makes researching a bit difficult
>catholic mom absolutely hates lolita. Says a good girl can't wear gothic clothes because it's evil (I know, right?)
>makes me stop seeing my vk and lolita friends
>I already didn't have many friends to begin with, so I'm completely lonely by now
>family moves to another city
>been desperately lonely for about a year now. Still loving lolita but from afar.
>New friends are into raving and drugs; after a couple of years I end up getting into these kind of things too.
>be 2009. I should be in college. Instead I'm wasting my time partying and doing drugs and I don't even really like it.
>parents hate me to death and I hate them back
>be 2010
>somehow, I manage to get into college
>move out from my parents
>now living with girls I don't know in a city I know nothing about: pretty fucking lonely.
>run into lolita pictures online. Flame has never really gone out.
>decide it's time to build a wardrobe
>start saving money - which means: no partying and no drugs anymore! (Occasional weed but, eh, it's pretty cheap around here)
>decide it's time to get a job so I can buy brand.
>Somehow, a huge company hires me. Even parents are proud (they never were before, believe me)
>get into a comm. Everyone is adorable.
>I finally make actual friends
>finally not so lonely anymore.

I guess if I hadn't rediscovered lolita, I would probably have commited suicide. I thought of doing it enough times (I even had it all planned). I was too lonely my whole life.
In the end, my mom never admitted lolita kind of saved me from my depression but I know she knows. My relationship with my parents is ok right now.
I never told this story to anyone before. It's nice to get it out of my chest.

>> No.7540109

bump

>> No.7540297

>>7538429
I'm happy for you, anon!

>> No.7540299

>>7538085
> lolita bff op
I can't help but read this as "I've found my lolita bff one-piece!" lol

>> No.7540311

My comm saved me from suicide. They don't know that they did it and I don't plan on having them find out.

I had prepared everything. It was about 5am, and I was home alone. I was online checking a few things about the dosages I needed to take when I got a notification about a meet happening in a few hours' time. I had a look at the attending list and thought "fuck it, let's spend my last day on earth in frills". I changed my plan to take the drugs later.

I went to the meet and something clicked. There were a few specific people and events that did it, but I won't detail them.

I'm obviously still deeply unwell, but I now have motivation to seek proper help.

>> No.7540320

>Be a member of a comm for about 5 years.
>Nice comm, quiet comm, little ball of friends.
>Maybe too quiet.
>Suddenly, fifty members
>Admin retires to focus on college, puts me on new moderation team
>Good team
>All new members are good new members
>The internet says this shouldn't happen, but hey. Luck is luck!

Also:
>Friend who had quit lolita comes back WITH FORCE
>Buys black Iron Gate JSK
>ngl, I'm jelly.
>few weeks later, I find white IG skirt online!
>yoink.jpg
>"Anon, we should twin! It'll be difficult to make it work since we've different pieces, but we'll pull something off..."
>Sure, friend!
>This is harder than it seemed at first
>Friend somehow, by magic, obtains white IG skirt
>GET OUT. JUST. HOW.
>Now we can twin properly.

Broke forever, but have friend back, have dream item, have (vague) photoshoot plans, livin' the loli dream.

>> No.7540323
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>>7540320
Broke forever but you looked baller as fuck.

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>>7540311
I'm so glad you're on the road to recovery, anon!
Stick with it, you got this! You're gonna get better, I'm so proud.

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>>7540311
I'm laughing like an idiot. That's too fucking funny.

>> No.7540345

>>7540311
>implying you would have died
If you had actually read shit, you'd know that overdosing is one of the single most unreliable suicide methods. It can be extremely painful by the way.

>> No.7540369

>>7540337
You're doing SOMETHING like an idiot alright.

>> No.7540387

>>7540369
Honey, if frills and lace kept you from killing yourself you probably weren't all that keen on killing yourself to begin with.

>> No.7540391

I met my best friend at a lolita meet. She was the aspie ita drama queen everyone hated, I was the bitchy tripfag drama queen everyone hated. Match made in heaven, we're inseparable.

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>>7540387

>> No.7540396

>>7540345
I'm not a total idiot. I wasn't planning to overdose with painkillers, as I didn't fancy spending the next seven days in agony with no guarantee of death/ moderate guarantee of liver damage and spending the night shitting out activated charcoal in a hospital.

Barbiturates combined with benzos was my plan, which I think you'll find is pretty much the euthanasia method du jour.

>>7540387
Like I have already said, I'm not out of the woods yet. I still don't really want to be alive and I still have a lot of stuff to work through. It was a specific thing that the comm did that day (for the entire comm, not just me) that made me realise that I could still reach out for help and someone might actually be there for me.

>>7540324
Thanks for not being a huge turd, anon. I hope you find all your dream dresses for half of their value.

>> No.7540447

>>7540396
>I hope you find all your dream dresses for half of their value.
Ahhh. The Lolita 'best wishes' salutation.

>> No.7540998

It's not really an individual experience, more of an overall neat thing I've found since getting into the fashion: I always have nice outfits to wear to fancy occasions. I remember having to go out and buy horrible shiny prom gown style things for family parties or weddings. Now I can just whack on one of my lolita pieces (usually without petty to avoid being OTT) and matching accessories and I look pretty while feeling comfortable.

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>>7538085
oh man same here

I've just hung out with her once outside of a meet/con though but I hope we can become close friends

hoping that for you too!

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>>7540391
cool?

>> No.7541767

>>7540396
>Barbiturates combined with benzos was my plan
Actually that's pretty good, but I'm surprised you were actually able to find barbiturates. They don't really prescribe those anymore at least in the US.

Add some alcohol to that and I give you a 9/10.

>> No.7542265

>>7541446
I'm so happy for you anon and I truly hope it works out well for you.

You are very sweet to wish that! I really do hope you can become best friends.