>_< What the hell is happening?

[spiralstairs.livejournal.com]

On E-bay, I found a halter top, a "punk" striped baby T, an Espirit knee skirt, a Lip Service straight skirt, a turtleneck, a short sleeve dress you could find at Hot Topic, and two maid accessories also labelled under 'fetish'. What's wrong with this picture? These are all under the keyword of 'gothic lolita' and are very clearly not. >_< All right, how many people understand what Gothic Lolita means and how many people are just trying to sell their crap?

While I'm at it, my apologies for those who are offended, but why are square dance dresses qualified as EGL? Honestly, it's cheap and not elegant at all. It's like buying a Prada bag from one of the street dealers in Manhattan for $10 and saying it's the real deal. I'm sure if you changed its appearance and modified the look, it'd turn into something quite nice, but until then, it's like saying a cow is a horse just because it also has four legs. (For the record, I love 'em both.)

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[morgen-stern.livejournal.com]

Agreed that 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999% of the time square dance dresses are almost entirely inappropriate. I had one not too long ago that looked *almost* perfect for a sweet-gothic Lolita mix, but I decided since the black was interupted by hundreds of tiny white polkadots that it just wasn't GL enough and let it go. I wish I'd waited though, as in GL Bible #9 I saw dresses with the exact same print, and I probably could have marketed the auction better.

It was one of those rare square dance dress gems with a nice neck-line up about the throat, no elastic on either the neck-line or waist, a pretty white lace yolk from the chest to the neck finished with lovely white lace ruffles and puffy white lace sleeves that hit about the elbows. The only thing that would have really given it away was the circle skirt rather than the gathered skirt that GL skirts and dresses usually have. I don't know how one would fix that though... A circle skirt can't easily become a gathered skirt I wouldn't think...

Most of the square dance dresses sold as Gothic Lolita are just tripe though, and so is a great deal of other merchandice. It's annoying, but I don't see it going away any time soon. T.T As frustrating as it is to sift through all the posuer products, we've no way of implimenting any sort of restrictions or controls as to what comes in labeled Gothic Lolita. It makes me sad though, that people who are just getting in to the fashion and haven't done a ton of research yet might get taken in by a bad buy. ;_;

[morgen-stern.livejournal.com]

Oi... and they've sunk to an all new low... There is a seller marketing children's play-costume accessories as Gothic Lolita, the cheap kind that you could pick up at K-mart or Walmart. Why are we so afflicted?

Though there are a couple real things up there, a Metamorphose skirt and Atelier Boz shirt...

[chibi-hotaru.livejournal.com]

There is also a Moi-meme-Moitie dress. *sobs*