>_< What the hell is happening?

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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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I'm probably too tall for most of their stuff too, but we're not just following the bibles themselves, but how could you be EGL if all you do is shlack on some lipstick, say you listen to Malice Mizer and wear jeans with a black shirt? It's like the people who cosplay a "Gothic" Sailormoon, but all they do is put on eyeliner. We're not getting pissy about people who start trends, props to them for doing so, but those who say they dress EGL and do it Candide style (half assed) are the ones to get annoyed about. There's a whole variety of EGl styles, and anybody can see that. Compare Arachnophobia to Moi-meme-Moitie to h.NAOTO Blood and you can see the difference between them. I saw photos on your webpage of your creations and you've created really nice designs! That's not what we're getting angry about and as a matter of fact, you should be praised for it (especially the Alice dress). You may not even have to be EGL, you could go for the EGA or Visual Kei look, or something else you've created that goes along with the general idea. Saying that you're Gothic Lolita, but in a hot pink polyester tank top, hip huggers, and basketball sneakers is what we're annoyed about. And when have we gotten angry about a Japanese designer doing something we used to hate? The Rockabilly style is picking up and I still don't like it. Am I going to like it if it's the new hit thing? Hell, no. We're stating what we like, what we don't like and what we frown upon. I'm sorry if this is speaking for everyone. Feel free to pipe up if I'm wrong.

As far as understanding it goes, I don't think any of us will fully get it. I won't, you won't, none of us. It's up to us to have our own interpretations, but as it starts to broaden and people decide they're just going to use the name, then some of us are going to jump up to defend it.