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Is there a abode for tea parties and adorned dresses for women in the 21st century? The acknowledgment is a aural yes from these lolita appearance ladies!
Lolita appearance is a subculture that originated in Japan but has now advance about the world. While there are abounding sub-styles, in accepted it’s an elegant look aggressive by Victorian clothes with lots of basic and bows. Meet-ups are a big allotment of the ability and are about lady-like outings for tea parties or picnics. These contest action an befalling for girls to get calm in their fanciest apparel and accept a acceptable time together. I was able to appear one such meetup, an international tea party in Tokyo organized by our hostess Ai Akizuki.
Ai accustomed a lolita association at Waseda University which had developed to 150 associates aback she larboard it in 2009. Since again she has been alive on her own to spread lolita appearance and affix admirers about the world. You can acquisition out added actuality at her blog.
We aggregate at Cafe Friends in Tokyo’s Yoyogi adjacency and were advised to drinks and a alternative of pastries with affluence of ice cream, fruit, aerated cream, and sauces to awning them in.
I decided to ask the girls a few questions, starting with what aboriginal got them absorbed in lolita fashion. There was a advanced array of answers; one babe was aboriginal absorbed in cosplay afore authoritative the move to lolita fashion, and addition begin her way there through J-pop and J-rock music afterwards spotting an advert in a music magazine. Addition babe said that she had consistently beat adorned and changeable clothes so it was a accustomed alteration to footfall it up a cleft and alpha bathrobe in lolita fashion, while yet addition came to it through modelling, and addition else through theatre. One babe had been a big fan of Japanese video amateur and spotted girls cutting lolita appearance aback she was visiting Harajuku, then when lolita brand Angelic Appealing opened a annex in San Francisco she went to analysis it out and was hooked. One girl added that bathrobe like this bidding her absolute self, and that was a activity I got from all the girls, that they were adequate and blessed bathrobe this way.
It seems that best non-Japanese lolitas apparent the appearance through a above-mentioned absorption in Japan. I absolutely bethink gazing longingly at artery snaps of Japanese girls in attractive apparel on the internet, yet I never had to adherence to accompany it off-screen. Like abounding added hobbies it absolutely takes accomplishment and, of course, money.
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These dresses are busy and expensive, so I capital to apperceive how abundant bodies spent on their clothes. The answers were about amid 10,000 and 40,000 yen per ages (US $83 to $332), although one babe estimated that she spent over 1,000,000 yen in a year! However, abounding girls accomplish their own accessories, and alike their own dresses, which can cut bottomward on costs. While cast adherence seems to be acutely important, there’s also a big accent on creativity.
Finally, I asked if they wore lolita appearance every day or aloof on appropriate occasions. Best said aloof on appropriate occasions, such as the tea party. One said aloof on weekends, and two girls were full-time lolitas, although their style would alter from day to day. There are abounding affidavit why some choose to alone dress this way from time to time, including the charge to dress professionally in accustomed activity and being afraid about accepting spills and stains on their aerial dresses.
The afternoon was spent bistro sweets and chatting about appearance and activity in general, afore catastrophe with a photo shoot to appearance off the girls’ admirable apparel as seen below.
▼ Ai Akizuki, the hostess of the tea affair in her chocolate-themed dress
▼ Yoshiko Veronica who works as a archetypal and designer
["465.6"]▼ Yuko is a full-time lolita.
▼ Mariana from Mexico
▼ Kitty, from Germany, fabricated her own dress from bolt alien from Japan!
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▼ Hina’s accouterments was based about a aerial motif.
▼ Akira’s best favourite cast is Angelic Pretty.
▼ Nami was cutting agitation horse shoes, which are a basic of lolita fashion.
After the tea affair was over some of the girls afflicted aback into their approved clothes, while others were blessed to aberrate out into the streets of Tokyo in their dresses. Whether they wore lolita appearance every day or not, these girls all shared a adulation of appealing dresses and a beautiful but absurd aesthetic. While lolita appearance is still a audibly Japanese subculture it appeals to girls from all over the world and, as the tea affair demonstrated, has the ability to accompany them calm as an all-embracing community.
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Images: RocketNews24Links: Ai’s blog, Ai’s Twitter, Secret Tea Party, Cafe Friends
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