Finally, another
Lolita Blog Carnival post! This week's topic is three trends you could never get into. It was actually rather difficult for me to think of anything, since to me, a lot of things I don't happen to wear just happen to be things I don't wear, rather than things I would categorize as "can never get into." However, I did manage to find three trends that I do not follow.
1. Food Prints
Even as a beginner Lolita, I had some very strong print theme preferences that I still have now. I still love anything related to music, literature, and ballet. And I still feel weird wearing, or thinking about wearing most prints featuring food. It's not that I dislike those particular prints, and in many cases I actually think they're really beautiful, but whenever I think about wearing pictures of food all over me... I just feel weird. So it has always been a conscious decision when cultivating my wardrobe, that I did not buy print items with food as the primary theme.
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Photo: Angelic Pretty[/caption]
I was extremely tempted to buy a "Jewelry Jelly" skirt when Angelic Pretty came out with it, I just thought the lavender colorway was perfect. And I literally came within inches of clicking the buy button, and then my instincts kicked back in and I didn't. And I still have never gotten it even though I still admire and drool over it whenever I see a friend wearing that print. It's beautiful, and I adore it, but I just don't do food prints!
I think there are only two things in my wardrobe that are "exceptions" to my no-food decision.
I do own the "Forest Harvest Festival" print from Innocent World, which technically has jam jars on it. However, when I bought it, I decided they were just one of many things in the print, and incorporated enough that I didn't feel like I was wearing FOOD, since my main focus was on all the cute animals and the autumn aspect in the print.
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Photo: Angelic Pretty[/caption]
I also caved in to temptation and bought "Sweetie Chandelier" from Angelic Pretty, which technically has gummy bears and cupcakes on it, but I felt like they were sufficiently incorporated into the chandelier aspect that again, I don't feel like I'm wearing OMG CUPCAKES but rather chandeliers, which happen to have colorful bear-shaped and a few cupcake-shaped candles on them.
2. Wigs
The long wig with big pigtail clip-ons has become fairly standard in Lolita fashion, particularly within the past few years, and particularly amongst sweet Lolitas, who I see wear them in all sorts of awesome pastel colors.
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Photo: Gothic Lolita Wigs[/caption]
This was something that I saw on other people and thought "Aww, how cute, now I want a wig like that!" I think they began to become more common a couple of years after I got into the fashion, and coincided right when I really started accumulating more of a wardrobe and trying to get better accessories and stuff to match. So I figured, hey why not, thy look so cute! However, after trying an actual full set (wig + pigtails) once, maybe twice, I decided it's not for me. Not only do I not really look particularly good with so much hair, but it gave me horrible migraines and was just plain uncomfortable.
I even tried just the clips with my own hair, or just the long wig without the clips, but even that was not exactly awesome. It looked better, but still gave me the headache. I saw everyone wearing the beautiful long fluffy crimped wigs that have become popular in the past year or so, and thought I'd try one on... Too much hair for my face/head. The only wigs I've found that both look decent on me, and don't induce a headache, are shorter bob styles. So if I ever want to have different length/texture than what my hair naturally does, or colorful hair, that will have to suffice.
While for many people, wigs are an easier alternative to wrangling with their natural hair, I actually felt they were more of a nuisance for me, because I'm very blessed to have natural hair that does not tangle easily. So I would spend hours having to detangle wigs, which is something I wasn't used to having to do with my hair. As I developed my tastes in Lolita, I also found that I tend to prefer simpler hairstyles, and don't really go OTT with head accessories, so natural hair just looked better for fitting that aesthetic. Since coming to that realization, I've mostly stuck to using my natural hair for Lolita, whether for daily wearing or for fancy big meetups, and keeping my wigs for costuming and cosplay purposes.
3. Painting Dresses
These dresses featuring classical art prints seemed to generate quite a frenzy when Juliette et Justine first released them. I'm sure dresses featuring classical art existed before then, but they suddenly popped up on the radar after JetJ got into them. I actually can't remember the exact timeline, but it felt fairly recent, within the last couple of years. Everyone seemed to be talking about them, and everyone wanted one.
Since then, JetJ has continued releasing more and more dresses with classical art. For a while it seemed like every set of new releases had one. People started getting their own fabric printed and sewing their own, even Bodyline seems to have finally tried dipping into this trend.
While I love classical art, I just have never really gotten into this print trend. I've seen some dresses of this theme that do look very elegant, but other ones suffer from awkward image placement, or just look like a haphazard collage of classical paintings stuck on a dress. Overall, it's just not something that I am very interested in wearing (I don't need Queen Elizabeth on my butt, or cherubs on my chest), and not a trend that I see myself getting into.
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Photo: Juliette et Justine[/caption]
So there they are, three trends I could never get into - one thing that has always been a conscious choice from the beginning, another that I tried once or twice early on and decided just did not fit my aesthetic preference, and a third that is more recent and something I have never actually tried because I just never found it fitting to my tastes.
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Make sure to check out all the other blogs in the carnival who participated in this topic!
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Lemontree111 |
Alice in Lolitaland |
Hello Kitty Loves Disney |
Ice Age |
Pretty Little Habits |
Lolita Glamour |
Dollhouse Diaries |
Under the Parasol |
Her Lumpiness |
Lace a la Mode |
The Bloody Tea Party |
Starry-Eyed Lolita ~
