Cosmopolitan as England might be, followers of alternative fashions can still have a really hard time here. Especially if they belong to a smaller, not so widely known group or not as threatening as for example Punks or Goths. Have you ever met anyone mocking a Goth into his face? I doubt about it, as they have the aura of possible threat so much needed sometimes to other people let someone be in peace. Lolitas for example, especially the Sweet Lolitas, lack this aura. Sometimes this disadvantage can get even life-threatening for them.
But who are actually the Lolitas? No, despite you think you know clearly who they are, if you aren' t into Japan or anime, you probably have no clue. Lolita as a fashion has nothing in common with the famous Nabokov' s novel - and Lolitas certainly aren' t girls dying for finding sugar daddys. Ironical as it might sound, it is one of the most innocent, purest and least sexual fashions in this world inspired by Victorian and Rococo children clothing and rather than sexy aims to be cute and sweet and above all, fun to wear. Think about old porcelain dolls or dollfies and maybe you will get closer to what I mean. Modern fashion is full of uniformity and stereotypes - and its accent on sexuality makes many of the girls including me sick. C'mon guys, do you seriously automatically see in any woman a sex object? Does anyone of you realize how hugely limitating such attitude is?
The trouble with Lolita fashion is it is not yet widely known - and despite its original innocent purpose due to the reminiscence of children clothing it seems to most of the people (overfilled with sex from every side to the point of connecting it with everything) perverted. The thing that boils my blood most about that is that girls with cleavages to their nipples and skirts long approximately 2 inches are considered normal - and girl who are covered with layers and layers of non see-trough garments from their necks to their knees and do nothing to attract (anyway unwanted in the most of the cases - who would want you, you pigs) the sexual attention of men are called prostitutes. I can' t make sense of this.
Though I must give England this: whenever I go out in my pink and frilly Lolita dress, the older ladies are usually absolute darlings. Older ladies with your memories of the times when fashion was cute, impractical and feminine, WE LOVE YOU ALL!
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