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Lolita 52 week challenge: week 16
Week 16:
35. What I thought when I got my first real piece of Lolita

Ah, another kind of boring answer. I never thought of getting anything besides brand for my first real Lolita piece. In 2015 I received as a graduation gift from my parents AP’s French cafe switching jsk in pink.
I definitely fell so so deeply in love with it, I loved the feel of the heavy cotton and the intricacy of the print on it and we’ll as it’s construction in general, it was a serious beauty to behold and I was for sure hooked right then and there to achieve some high hopes and dreams with the hobby.
Regardless I’ve always had too-high standards when it comes to clothes, likely due to my mother’s own approach to clothing which I then learned via osmosis. Brand is brand for a reason, even with its decline over the recent years; but remember clothes were NEVER as cheap (nor as abundant) as they are now! I’m not going to rip on taobao brands, but there’s a reason why I’ve ended up selling basically every clothing item I’ve gotten from there. I am a baby brand whore so maybe I am biased [i am], baby’s items especially from pre-2012 are definitely superior in quality to things they release now, but they’re still able to achieve a very good level of quality with their releases and I guess this is why I stay so loyal to them, not to mention their consistency in designs. So its no wonder that when i got my first brand blouses last year i ended up being unable to buy anymore taobao blouses...
Anyways I ended up selling that original first dress, unfortunately because I thought it would never zip up and be comfortable to wear on me (I had already lost a lot of weight then and didn’t know if I’d be able to go lower), I’m still quite sad about it, but also it was pink so it just clashed with my skin tone anyways. It really was the epitome of cute for me back then and was everything I believed to be Lolita, I’m glad I was able to at least hold it! The dress that followed it then turned out to be Baby's Dancing Baby bears...

hm... ha... yeah. what the actual hell was i thinking? I really don't know. I held onto it for a couple of months so that i could make a complete coord with it. I got a cropped taobao chiffon blouse with pearl accents on the collar, a whital alley cardigan [i'm still trying to get rid of], and i already had some loliable white wedges, and got some pastel colored ankle socks. The final touch was a petticoat, and whilst a family trip to brazil i obtained a Me Likes Tea voile petticoat of i believe 4 or 5 layers, so a proper poof monster. I think it was late janurary 2020 then that i finally put it all together and...
I hated it

i felt like an over-dressed 4-year old for their birthday party. Genuinely i couldn't stomach myself in it all that i put together. The poof of the petticoat, the pastels, just... everything- i seriously couldn't imagine myself stepping foot outside the house like that! Luckily i know myself and could easily see that it wasn't lolita as a whole that i was scared of- but simply of sweet. Because i loved looking at the print and i loved how the fabric felt and fell on me when i wore it but... it simply just didnt feel like a vibe in general... I should also mention that at this point i still referred to whats considered "old school" as "classic"- how and why? i have 0 clue but it took an extra year for me to really understand the difference. Regardless i put her up for sale, and she sold to LovelyLor of all people, and a couple of months later i got my 3rd round of "first dress/s"

to the right is AP's twinkle sky jsk in red and to the left is Baby's Secret Air mail. Twinkle sky was bought since i basically figured out i wanted something solid to ease me into wearing lolita out and about- funny because the first ever time i wore lolita was with secret airmail, with the coord pictured above; and i only bought it because i felt a certain sense of nostalgia for it since i met a lolita during my study-abroad which re-woke my love for lolita and she had it in pink and i loved it alot! Anyways, as you can see my penchant for red was already a thing since the beginning so something else entertaining to note.
i've gone on a tangent about first coords when this focuses on "first lolita pieces" and well, i was never fond of twinkle sky for the simple fact it was made of polyester, i hated the way it sounded when i moved and didnt like that fact it lacked a certain sense of body because of that. Secret air mail was everything though. From the print [even if its bled a bit] had weight and body to it and i always loved how it felt on me when worn; its no wonder i ended up sticking to Baby from there on out.
Anyways as you can see, i actually had multiple "first piece[s]" because sometimes we do just need to hold in our hands what it is we believe we want, and we have to put it on to seriously see if this is right for us. It took quite a bit of trial and error for me and even though i always aced my normie fashion in terms of comfort and differentiating what i enjoyed looking at versus what i actually liked wearing, this wasn't true for an alternative fashion like lolita; especially as well for the fact there was beginning to be a shift in trends at the time i finally started buying in 2020, and this likely affected my views on the fashion and what it was i liked wearing as well.

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hm... ha... yeah. what the actual hell was i thinking? I really don't know. I held onto it for a couple of months so that i could make a complete coord with it. I got a cropped taobao chiffon blouse with pearl accents on the collar, a whital alley cardigan [i'm still trying to get rid of], and i already had some loliable white wedges, and got some pastel colored ankle socks. The final touch was a petticoat, and whilst a family trip to brazil i obtained a Me Likes Tea voile petticoat of i believe 4 or 5 layers, so a proper poof monster. I think it was late janurary 2020 then that i finally put it all together and...
I hated it

i felt like an over-dressed 4-year old for their birthday party. Genuinely i couldn't stomach myself in it all that i put together. The poof of the petticoat, the pastels, just... everything- i seriously couldn't imagine myself stepping foot outside the house like that! Luckily i know myself and could easily see that it wasn't lolita as a whole that i was scared of- but simply of sweet. Because i loved looking at the print and i loved how the fabric felt and fell on me when i wore it but... it simply just didnt feel like a vibe in general... I should also mention that at this point i still referred to whats considered "old school" as "classic"- how and why? i have 0 clue but it took an extra year for me to really understand the difference. Regardless i put her up for sale, and she sold to LovelyLor of all people, and a couple of months later i got my 3rd round of "first dress/s"


to the right is AP's twinkle sky jsk in red and to the left is Baby's Secret Air mail. Twinkle sky was bought since i basically figured out i wanted something solid to ease me into wearing lolita out and about- funny because the first ever time i wore lolita was with secret airmail, with the coord pictured above; and i only bought it because i felt a certain sense of nostalgia for it since i met a lolita during my study-abroad which re-woke my love for lolita and she had it in pink and i loved it alot! Anyways, as you can see my penchant for red was already a thing since the beginning so something else entertaining to note.
i've gone on a tangent about first coords when this focuses on "first lolita pieces" and well, i was never fond of twinkle sky for the simple fact it was made of polyester, i hated the way it sounded when i moved and didnt like that fact it lacked a certain sense of body because of that. Secret air mail was everything though. From the print [even if its bled a bit] had weight and body to it and i always loved how it felt on me when worn; its no wonder i ended up sticking to Baby from there on out.
Anyways as you can see, i actually had multiple "first piece[s]" because sometimes we do just need to hold in our hands what it is we believe we want, and we have to put it on to seriously see if this is right for us. It took quite a bit of trial and error for me and even though i always aced my normie fashion in terms of comfort and differentiating what i enjoyed looking at versus what i actually liked wearing, this wasn't true for an alternative fashion like lolita; especially as well for the fact there was beginning to be a shift in trends at the time i finally started buying in 2020, and this likely affected my views on the fashion and what it was i liked wearing as well.

π―π½πΆπππ π»β΄π πβ―πΆπΉπΎππ!