Lolita's Three Mainstreams

Sweet Lolita-mainly in pink, pink blue, white and other pink series, made of a lot of lace, is the most popular style in Guangzhou in order to create a doll-like cuteness and romance, and it will not be too ostentatious when walking in the street.

☆ Sweet Lolita ☆

Lolita's status today: mainstream

Sweet Lolita, as its name implies, belongs to the sweetest fashion design school in all Lolita categories. The fabrics of sweet dresses are mostly pink, pink blue or white, which are tender and lovely. In addition, in order to create a lovely, sweet, bright and pure atmosphere like a doll, sweet dresses usually use more lace and fabric folds on clothes than other factions.

In recent years, because styles and designs are often copied, various sweet dress brands have given up monochrome fabrics and used various printed fabrics printed with candy, cakes, small animals or fairy tales (because the patterns are special and difficult to copy, this fabric is often unique, so it is very likely to nip in the bud).

Generally speaking, sweet Lolita dresses are often more popular with girls who set foot in Lolita for the first time than other dresses.

Sweet is the representative brand of Lolita dress: BABY, the stars are shining, the angels are pretty, and the classic Lolita in metamorphosis-with simple tone as the main theme, paying attention to tailoring to express elegant thoughts, and the colors are not picky, such as brown and white. Lace will be reduced accordingly, lotus leaf pleats are the biggest feature, and the overall style is relatively simple and clean, suitable for novices.

☆ Classical Lolita ☆

Lolita's status today: mainstream

As the name implies, the classic Lolita dress is the most elegant of all other Lolita dresses. Its dress design, like the aristocratic girls in Britain in the19th century, is both classical and elegant, yet innocent and lovely.

Although the fabric used in the classic Lolita dress also likes to be mainly solid color, the solid color it uses must be elegant and decent, not dazzling. In addition to the four basic colors of white, black, pink and blue, all kinds of beautiful floral fabrics are also the favorite choice of classical dress fabrics.

Unlike the sweet Lolita dress, except for the classical lace, the classic Lolita dress rarely uses a lot of plain lace on the clothes. In every place where lace is needed on clothes, the classic Lolita dress will basically replace lace with folds of the same texture as clothes. The color of the fabric used in classic dresses is also elegant. In addition to the four basic colors of white, black, pink and blue, various beautiful floral fabrics are also common users of classic dresses.

In a word, the dress feature of classical Lolita is "simple but not simple". Because of its simple and generous style, the classic Lolita dress is more suitable for daily wear than other Lolita dresses, and it is also more easily accepted by parents and the public. When girls are tired of exaggerated and sweet Lolita dresses and unusual Gothic Lolita dresses, classical Lolita dresses become their inevitable and final choice.

Interestingly, the people who can best wear the charm of classical Lolita dresses are not young and lively high school and junior high school girls, but young women who are over 20 years old and have a calm temperament because of their work and experience. It seems that in reality, there are only a handful of examples in which "temperament" can coexist perfectly with "youth".

Representative brands: Mary Magdalene, Victoria Maiden, Juliet &; Justine, the real world (some of which are sweet Lolita)

Lolita is not Cosplay: the former represents life attitude, while the latter emphasizes role imitation. Gothic Lolita-the main color is black and white, which is characterized by expressing the feeling of mystery, terror and death. Usually decorated with cross silverware and other strong dark makeup, such as black nails, eye shadow and lip color, to emphasize mystery.

Gothic Lolita ☆

Lolita's status today: mainstream

The first thing to note is that Gothic Lolita is completely different from pure Gothic. Gothic Lolita just borrowed some style elements from Gothic clothing. The real Goth is not the dark "non-mainstream" popular in contemporary China and even Asia, nor is it the J-Goth created by the Japanese, which combines Goth, Victoria, Alice in Wonderland and French maid. Instead, a group of people who are interested in studying medieval Gothic architecture, some medieval music and the Gothic revival music wave that rose in Europe and America during the period of 1960~ 1970 are far away from the secular and indifferent society.

Secondly, those who think that all black and white Lolita dresses must belong to Gothic Lolita dresses are also wrong. In fact, even if the same fabric is used to make clothes, there will still be obvious differences in the cognition of Lolita dresses among different factions.

For example, the above two pictures. Even if the models in the picture are all wearing black dresses, it is easy for people to recognize who is the sweet and lovely Lolita dress and who is the cold and lonely Gothic Lolita dress from the style and shape.

Almost more than 97% of Gothic Lolita dresses only use black and white monochrome fabrics, and lovely colors such as pink and light yellow are completely insulated from this department. In addition, Gothic Lolita dress is also the most commonly used leather in all kinds of Lolita dresses. No wonder in some places in China, whether to wear a corset made of fine lambskin will become the only criterion for laymen to judge whether this person is a Lolita girl.

In addition to the monotonous fabric color, Goth is the favorite accessory of girls in Lolita, and it is also a variety of small objects (such as black nail polish, cross and skeleton silver ornaments) that can best show Goth's unique "religion" and "death" atmosphere.

In addition, there are two special branches in Gothic Lolita clothing-EGL Lolita and EGA Lolita. EGL Lolita's full name is "elegant Gothic Lolita" (namely "elegant Gothic Lolita"). Its design tends to be traditional and classical. Although it is close to Gothic Lolita, it feels a little more like a vampire. The full name of EGA Lolita is "elegant Gothic aristocrat" (that is, "elegant Gothic aristocrat"), and its clothing styles are generally men's wear, long skirts, trousers and shirts and coats with buttons at the neckline.

Compared with other Lolita dresses, Gothic Lolita, which is elegant, gorgeous and dark, is the most loved and fascinated lolita fashion in Europe and America. Perhaps this is because the design of Gothic Lolita dress is full of mysterious and seductive abstinence, so it can arouse the admiration of people deeply influenced by Christianity.

Representative brands: Moi-meme-Moitie, Mille Fleur

Note: Lolita is a sweet department, not a Gothic department.

Generally, many people who have just started Lolita or worked for a period of time often regard black and white Lolita as Gothic Lolita. In fact, many people have made beautiful mistakes-sweet Lolita can also be black and white or black.

Because according to the book Lolita Dresses for Music, black Lolita is one of the sweet Lolita. Use black but cute tailoring, and make-up is mainly cute, such as using light-colored cosmetics with cute accessories. Black/black and white Lolita has a warm and intimate girlish atmosphere and is called Black Lolita.

The difference between black and white Gothic Lolita and black Lolita is that it shows a dead, horrible, mysterious and charming artistic conception, rather than a sweet taste. Make-up usually uses dark series, and the shooting technique (if taking pictures) will try to express this artistic conception.