Lolita - What's your opinion?
 

Begging for an unfortunaty incident? I am not sure what you mean there.
I personally love the clothing, but I most certainly don't have the money to be living like that! Though I do have a pair of real nice white lolita boots and a pink dress with lots of white lace-frills. :> I don't read about it or anything, so I have no idea what kind of brands there is since I ordered my clothing and stuff from ebay, custom-made. If you're able to, and you find the style is just YOU, then I think you should get in there and go totally lolita. :P

I'm slowly saving up for a lolita outfit right now. I've found several extremely cheap contributions (100 yd crinoline for $30! Big poofy detailed skirt to fit over... ONE PENNY!!) so I guess you could say I'm a fan. A pooooor fan. xD

I figured she meant mixing sexy with child-like fashion is begging for a child molester's attention. Calling it Lolita is like waving a banner for the perv community even though most outfits I have seen involve a lot of skin coverage.

I think it can look really neat, I love elaborate costumes, but I have not tried it myself.

I'm more into the elaborate side than the sexy side. I've only been called sexy once when dressed loli, and that's because I hadn't donned the top yet and my boyfriend was in the room. lol

If anyone tells you you're begging to be raped, you might consider avoiding them. Apparently they have the wrong things in mind for you. :shock:

And brand name stuff is way too expensive for me... I've worn one BTSSB outfit that I borrowed, and it doesn't look that much more special than home-made or second-hand stuff. It's really more about the details, and proper accessorizing... So really you don't NEED to buy things for about a million moneys more than you can afford, yano?

Hmm. I like the Lolita style. I think it's very beautiful and elegant. I've never tried to wear it myself, since I don't have the body type to pull that sort of thing off, but I like seeing it, and I don't really see how it would lead to anything bad. It's cute.

I don't actually know any brands myself. If I were to try it myself, I'd probably end up looking for frilly things in regular stores and making what I could find, so it's never really been something I needed to know.

Well, that's the perverts problem, really. And it's just horrible when people say ''you're begging for rape'' or anything like that. Are we all supposed to wear a huge bag over our bodies just because some arseholes are swines enough to rape? No, you know what, you just plant a big hard kick with your big, chunky lolita-boots between their legs. D:

Well, I don't want this topic to become heavy and dramatic with rapists and stuff. XD Might as well take it lightly! :3

I love Lolita fashion, I wear it very often. I think it's a very cute and elegant fashion, not immature in the least. I own some Lolita clothing but I'm still building up my wardrobe :D Some of the brand clothes is pretty expensive but for know I'm just sticking to buying off brand clothes. My favorite brand is Angelic Pretty <3

Um, just to be clear, I was saying what I thought she meant by "begging for an unfortunate incident." I wasn't in anyway condoning rape or saying that people shouldn't dress how ever they like. What I was saying is that sometimes the way we dress can attract both wanted and unwanted attention. When I see a 20 something girl in a lacy lolita outfit with thigh high stockings and lace up boots, I think "that outfit's hot." When I see a 12 year old in the same outfit, I'm sorry but I worry about the attention she may draw from the pervs of the world because she may not be able to defend herself if they tried to force themselves on her. I am relieved to see that most lolita girls travel in packs. I think cosplay and fashion in general can be an art form. Keep in mind where the word "Lolita" comes from.
(A movie about a 40 some year old perv having a love affair with a 14 year old girl, when it didn't work out with her alcoholic mother.) The Japanese culture jokes often in anime and manga about older men ogling high school girls, and fantasizing about seducing the little sister type, I think calling it that was a tongue in cheek comment on that.

Hime-hair is adorable. I've been thinking about trying to get a hime-cut but I'm not sure how it would look x3

I love the fashion, but the complex is another thing all together. So it depends. I guess I go both ways. Little girls don't belong with older men, (and visa versa) But I don't see anything wrong with lace and ribbons! :)

I have no desire to dress in that manner for myself, but it is fun to watch all the pretty young things dressed up like dolls. I like to dress up my avatars in Gothic Lolita manner, but never can seem to pull the look together as well as everyone else.

Ashi I agree totally with you, I used to know a gothie girl that would let me feed her cupcakes and never thought I wanted anything more than to see her eat a cupcake in her cute outfit. Saddly she fell out of my social group and I have not seen her in years.

I think it's adorable but just not ALL THE TIME like I see some Lolitas. I think if you want to dress up and look adorable from time to time that's fine, but don't take it to extremes. Anime conventions and the like- by all means! Go all out! Outside of that though take social norms into consideration. Don't wear little frilly dresses to places you're going to be active, like a ballpark or the zoo. It's all about timing.

My honest opinion - it's SERIOUSLY overdone. Everyone and their grandmother seems to either have an interest in it and the clothing to match, no interest in it but the clothing anyway, or an interest in it but no clothing to match...and anyone who doesn't hates it because it's so popular.

Personally, I don't dislike it in the least - in fact, I love it to death when someone really pulls off the look well and has the attitude to match (like my sister for instance *coughhack*completelynotbiased*cough*). But the fact is, so few people actually DO.

Honestly, it gets on my nerves when I see so many dollar-store wannabe Lolita types walking around in some frilly skirt and a shirt that leaves little to the imagination. If you're going to do something, learn what it's really about first.

All in all, it's wonderful...until its sole purpose is as a sexual fantasy. When it's all in good fun, and you're doing it because you like it, great. When you're only doing it because it's what's "hot" and you want to attract someone who would otherwise be a child molester...that's when I have to say no.

That said, I actually do DESIGN some clothing in the EGL style. It's entirely for my sister; designs to be used mainly by my band for lives, videos, and whatnot. I personally don't wear such things (I'm the main "male" [technically gender-neutral, but people assume male first in this field] figure), but I do find the designs very fun to play with.