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I was wondering if anyone has ever seen some things in Lolita fashion that made you kind of perplex as to what were they thinkiing. question xd

Some could be some really crazy clothes, that although have lolita qualities, still seemed kind of off, or just kind of with really weird accessores (it doubles as a skirt, dress, and a table cloth!!!)

One i've seen was a blouse that had a lot of detatchables. Detatchable sleeves, collars, and even pockets. It made me wonder what would happen if you happened to lost parts of it. xd So all you had was one sleeve and pocket, and half a collar.

this thread isn't to bash people of certain ways they dress, or saying "this is right, and you're wrong." type of stuff.

I believe it's called Decora.
Try Fresh FRUiTS for more.
Or if you live by a Japanese market check out their bookstore.
Zipper, Kera, FRUiTS, Cutie, etc. will probbly have some.

This fashion is called Fruits ^^ i have a huge book at my place with loooads of pictures like this (:

Some of the elements of the FRUiTs fashions are cute, really, but some of it is just too much.

Bright colors? ... awesome.
Layering garments? ... even more awesome.
Having so much on that you can't see where one item starts and the other ends? ... not awesome.

Personally, I think the best part of all of this is the layering they use on their socks/stockings. I am a fiend for legwear, so I do much of that already. White legwarmers over red socks over black fishnet is gleeful, I think. The first image, as was already said, has the adorable socks on the girl on the right.

That part of her outfit, I'd wear. But I'd definitely have to tone down the mosaic of beads, patterns and rando-s**t or else my sense of aesthetics would probably wish to shoot me in the head. Honestly. It's just too much! You need to know where to look, and with those girls, it's impossible for your brain to get a rest at all.

As for true Lolita don'ts-- I'd have to say that I've seen some scary, scary make up and hair that didn't belong on Lolis [ie: Black eyeliner dripping down the cheeks of a sweet Lolita who hadn't any black anywhere else on here, colors that don't match with the garments, etc.]. Make up always seems to be treated as an afterthought, just sort of tossed on with personal preference. It bothers me when people don't realize that how they present their face and hair is part of the outfit..

This is a common misunderstanding, but the fashion is not called fruits. (Not in Japan at least). Fruits is the name of a book and a magazine which has photograhps of Tokyo street fashion, at it includes many styles : normal western fashion, punk, hippie, lolita, gal, decora.

The frilly bright style with lots of accessories is called "fruits" a lot of times in the west, but the Japanese refer to it as decora, short from decorate. The style was very popular around the late 90s, but it has almost completely disappeared from the streets now, although I've heard rumours that it would be coming back slowly. One of the main inspirations of the decora style is the singer Tomoe Shinohara, and the style was called "shinorer" in its early days.

Please use correct terms, okay? 3nodding

I'm not going to discuss the aethestics of decora here, but general loli don'ts imho are

* smoking
* trashy, nonpolished look
* too much makeup, please leave it to Mana, he is the only one who looks good with a face pasted white
* trying too much. You don't have to always be cutesy wutsey nicey yay! Talk normally...

It is.

I think the mislabel is because of the magazine's title. It's like here we've got the Gothic Beauty magazine, and then people dispute "well THIS person isn't goth, they're... cybergoth/romantigoth/ect!"

Sorta the same thing.

Though they look fruity to me. Maybe because they wear a lot of fruit stuff, too.

Taking the novel Lolita into consideration, I'm not sure that the sex-props are entirely out of context? Ah. But that's something else, entirely, to explore. Lord knows that Mana was stage molested enough to last him a lifetime. .:blink:.