>_< 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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Not terribly germaine to the thread, but...

[zoloft.livejournal.com]

O_O

Generally speaking, I agree with what you say... but implying that Stabbing Westward was ever goth, much less *old school* goth makes me want to scour my eyeballs with brillo pads... or at least have a good, stiff drink. ;D

Listen... can you hear that? It's Rozz Williams kicking in his grave. ;}

For the record, the CXS have been around at least as long as Stabbing Westward, though obviously w/o the mainstream commercial success.

Also for the record, *all* subcultures, or groups of people in general, are snotty & nasty & catty to one another. People suck wherever you go, you just tend to notice it more in the circles in which you most closely associate.