Lolita Chic

[zina]

 

[zina]

Vivienne westwood lady dragon shoes

 

[zina]

fornarina clothes

 

[papa_levante]

^^ At this angle, those shoes look like Barbie shoes!

As far as defining it, would you say it's like the below picture? Rather, the picture is to the extreme, so it's sort of like dressing like a doll. Non?

(EDIT: I don't know if I'd consider the above photos of Lindsay as 'lolita' though.)

petrie1784.files.wordpress.com

 

[lilianward]

Karen Walker fall/winter 2008 always seemed a bit lolita to me, especially when you see it in person.

I loved this collection!
I kind of like the lolita style... I wouldn't wear 'hardcore' lolita stuff as those japanese girls in the picture posted, but a little something here and there.. maybe

 

[ediewho]

I like the casual Lolita not the Goth or Japanese but most kind of the accidental one style... although i guess it depends on how do you wear them...

 

[Alasse]

i love japanese lolita ... and i admit i have worn that style out a few times.

 

[alfalfa]

i like it but not overdone like how a lot of Japanese carry the look.

 

[sandraswan]

my new favourite thread!

 

[saann]

zina thanks for all the pictures your posted but can you please source them or else they will have to be removed.. it's tFS policy

 

[zina]

sources photobucket , fornarina

 

[zina]

source just jared

Also in my previous post the pics of Evan Rachel Wood are from allmoviephoto.com and swipelife.com

 

[wings]

can someone explain "lolita chic" in words?

 

[papa_levante]

Basically ...

Lolita fashion is a fashion subculture originating in Japan that is primarily influenced by Victorian clothing as well as costumes from the Rococo period. Lolita has made this into a unique fashion by adding gothic and original design elements to the look. From this, Lolita fashion has evolved into several different sub styles and has created a devoted subculture in Japan. The Lolita look consists primarily of a knee length skirt or dress, headdress, blouse, petticoat, knee high socks or stockings and rocking horse or high heel/platform shoes.

I know that definition is mostly Japanese-based, but the same idea goes to those who sport the Lolita style outside of Japan: Victorian/Rococo, skirts, socks and stockings, etc.

 

[Glittery_Bug]

There's something ineffably erotic about this 'style' that I think is very difficult to condense into a coherent look unless it comes naturally, a la nymphet. I always think of Lolita as vaguely unkempt, feral and wearing rumpled (perhaps oversized too) and not necessarily sexy clothes. The teenage Dolores of the latter part of the book is perfectly evoked here:

"Her complexion was now that of any vulgar untidy high school girl who applies shared cosmetics with grubby fingers to an unwashed face and does not mind what soiled texture, what pustulate epidermis comes in contact with her skin. Its smooth tender bloom had been so lovely in former days, so bright with tears, when I used to roll, in play, her tousled head on my knee. A coarse flush had now replaced that innocent fluorescence. What was locally known as a "rabbit cold" had painted with flaming pink the edges of her contemptuous nostrils. As in terror I lowered my gaze, it mechanically slid along the underside of her tensely stretched bare thigh – how polished and muscular her legs had grown! She kept her wide-set eyes, clouded-glass gray and slightly bloodshot, fixed upon me, and I saw the stealthy thought showing through them that perhaps after all Monica was right, and she, orphan Lo, could expose me without getting penalized herself. How wrong I was. How mad I was! Everything about her was of the same exasperating impenetrable order – the strength of her shapely legs, the dirty sole of her white sock, the thick sweater she wore despite the closeness of the room, her wenchy smell, and especially the dead end of her face with its strange flush and freshly made-up lips. Some of the red had left stains on her front teeth, and I was struck by a ghastly recollection – the evoked image not of Monique, but of another young prostitute in a bell-house, ages ago, who had been snapped up by somebody else before I had time to decide whether her mere youth warranted my risking some appalling disease, and who had just such flushed prominent pommettes and a dead maman,and big front teeth, and a bit of dingy red ribbon in her country-brown hair."

Nabokov's Lolita - who is my favourite incarnation of the archetype - wouldn't bother with all this artificial ruffling and fuss and lace. She is more grubby than that, and all the better for it.

 

[saann]

I feel like lolita chic is all about the little timeperiod before 'entering' adulthood
as britney said: 'not a girl, not yet a woman'.. cheesy I know

as crazy and pedofilic this sounds it's almost like tainting the playful innocence of childhood with erotic undertones
..
ugh

ok this is making me sound deeply disturbed

 

[blankpage]

^ no. you're completely right, otherwise it wouldn't be considered sexy by the mass majority.

 

[wings]

I feel like lolita chic is all about the little timeperiod before 'entering' adulthood
as britney said: 'not a girl, not yet a woman'.. cheesy I know

as crazy and pedofilic this sounds it's almost like tainting the playful innocence of childhood with erotic undertones
..
ugh

ok this is making me sound deeply disturbed

that was what i was thinking about lolita chic, too. and that was also the reason why i asked

 

[ediewho]

photobucket ain't a source -per se- if the pics ain't posted in a URL you can quote right?

 

[luluposh]

I just came across this lady's Lookbook.nu page
http://lookbook.nu/user/12388-Misse-L

I am not sure if we can post the photos here, but definitely take a look for a European based Lolita chic. Some of her outfits are really very "cute", and she has a great variety of colours and accessories.