Roosevelt Island NYC Picnic pics!

[oshidori.livejournal.com]

Hey all!

Just wanted to share some pics from our little picnic on Saturday. It was a lot of fun, and we've coined a new term: NY Lolita Time. Basically, NY loli's will almost always arrive 30-60 minutes late for a meet-up, thus never actually being late for each other XD

But, we had a LOT of food, including yummy egg salad finger sandwiches, smoked salmon and cilantro butter finger sandwiches, cucumber and dill butter finger sandwiches, apricot cookies, other cookies of a variety I can't remember now, and a crumb cake. Needless to say, I had a lot of good leftovers for home!

After we ate, we had a little impromptu photoshoot at the very tip of the park where the lighthouse was situated. I love this park so much! In spite of it being a cloudy day, I think we got some very nice pictures. Check them out!









Well halo thar sailor! ♥








I think it's time to admit I am much too tall for brand ;_;







She's much too cute! ::envy::







All together now girls: *drool*







Our newcomer from Lubbock Texas! Unfortunately though, the wind decided to really pick up, and although her poses were so cute, it was hard to time the pictures because her skirt would keep flipping up!





It began to rain and got awfully muggy!

We also got many compliments from the 'islanders', who seemed to really like our style. Since the one train on the island wasn't going back to Queens, schwarzbrille and I decided to walk back to Queens via a small connecting bridge. Once on the other side, there were two old Italian guys sitting on a stoop smoking cigars, and they said to us, "That's it! That's how young ladies should dress! They got the right idea!" and then wished us a good night. I was rather surprised by it actually, old Italian guys are usually the most vocal about 'against the norm' fashions ::thinks back to the older males in her own family and neighbors::, so, even if a bit mysoginist, I was still pleasantly surprised by their compliments.

Well anyway, thanks for looking!

Comments

[xviciousxcorex.livejournal.com]

omg you all look *sooo* darling ^-^! Great pictures, I love all of your outfits!

[lucifersmurder.livejournal.com]

Awww cute! Is the blonde guy *stops to wipe drool* Is that his real hair?
The 2 girl is sooooo cute XD

[bakaxtenshi.livejournal.com]

Not its not my real hair. Wig :D

[lucifersmurder.livejournal.com]

oh! Your so lucky to have so many fans of the fashion in your area!

[plasticmonkey.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I love your hair! Tell me, how much of it is real? XD

And mind if I ask how tall you are? I am looking at a similar dress (different color, but I think the same style...) and I'm 5'6".

Nice photoshoot though. That's nice about the Italian guys. ^_^

[especially.livejournal.com]

Oh, trust me, you haven't got it terrible until you're 5'10".

[paranoia9.livejournal.com]

Agreed! e_e

[neko-oni.livejournal.com]

I have the dress in a different (newer?) version (both bXw and all black --I love the style of it, okay!? *^_^*), and I'm almost 5'5" and it comes a couple inches above my knee. Yeah, it's kinda short, but with bloomers it's fine.

[oshidori.livejournal.com]

5'9"

You should be fine, I would think ^_^

[paranoia9.livejournal.com]

Aw, this fashion shoot is just too cute! Is that your real hair?? The curls are perfect. *__* And the boy in black is drool worthy. xD His outfit is great, fashion sense of the lolita sort is just too rare in guys. e__e;

[oshidori.livejournal.com]

Haha I wish! Those are actually falls ^_^

The rest is my hair though. I've gotten ridiculously good at colormatching lately XD

I only wish I worked with menswear, I really want to dress the both of them up! ;_;

[redninjawinz.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I couldn't come. My mom picked saturday for our garage sale and I had to run home from work to help. WAAAAAA I have to sell my black jumpsuit now. I could never look as cute as Alex and John in theirs!!!!

[bakaxtenshi.livejournal.com]

Pish posh, I'm sure you look so cute in it!

[jeremiahmagic.livejournal.com]

Hi redninja! If you are going to sell it I'd be interested! Jeremiahmagic at gmail dot com !

[oshidori.livejournal.com]

Aww, it's ok!

I've already admitted to myself not many will show up to my Saturday meet-ups. Maybe one weekend I'll stay dry enough to do a Sunday so I can finally meet everyone! XD

[sisterite.livejournal.com]

As everyone make comments about the same person; the gentleman in black? I love the fact that he's wearing rocking horse shoes. ^^

[kisei-prophet.livejournal.com]

Aw that looks like it was so awsome! I never thought I'd see a guy in rocking horse shoes either! Hawness! xD <3

[honeycreepshow.livejournal.com]

the meta sailor jumpersuits! i've never seen them on a boy before, they look adorable

[saabisu.livejournal.com]

I agree with all your comments. First males on meta? or have I not looked hard enough?

[oshidori.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you! ♥

[dykestar.livejournal.com]

BOTH the boys in Meta sailor jumpsuits?! BOTH!? Did you drug them?! Coerse them?! Promise them GOLD?! OR ARE YOU JUST THE LUCKIEST GIRLS ON THE PLANET TO HAVE GUYS THAT AWESOME AS YOUR FRIENDS?!?!?!?!?!

PS: All the lolitas also look wonderful. This really is a well-dressed meet-up all around :D

[oshidori.livejournal.com]

The latter XD

And thank you!

[ugly-kitties.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I wish I could've gone... Damn work. Oh well, I'm quitting that job soon, and will have my saturdays forever (I hope) free! And... goddamn, John in rockinghorses. *_* *fangirls*

[ugly-kitties.livejournal.com]

...I have to say again how much I wish I could've gone. Ugh! I hate that I missed it so much that I have to comment twice on it!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

[iko.livejournal.com]

You guys look absolutely fantastic! Le sigh. I wish I could've gone and met y'all. Mayhaps next time (but I can't make it to this coming Thursday get together because I've got work)!

[needoll.livejournal.com]

the guy with the blonde hair looks excatly like my brother! O.o
i love all the outfits and poses. wonderful!

[lolita-m10m.livejournal.com]

Aww, you guys look great!
I wish I can tag along but everyone knows each other and I'll just feel left out. xD;; But I'll try to go to one in the future. ^^;

[schwarzbrille.livejournal.com]

Psh! This was my first time out as a new Lolita AND my first time meeting everyone! Everyone is really sweet, and the whole thing was a blast. You should definitely go for it next time. ^_^

[ugly-kitties.livejournal.com]

We'd never let you feel left out! n_n

[oshidori.livejournal.com]

I think the others that know me can back me up when I say I try my best to be the perfect hostess. My objective is to make everyone feel included, welcome and warm, and I think 9 times out of 10 I succeed in that. So please, don't feel left out, and please don't think you would be tagging along! Everyone is welcome with open arms, and the more people that participate, the merrier.

With this meetup, I was meeting people for the first time. Some I had met briefly at Otakon, but that's not nearly the same as actually hanging out with them and engaging in conversation. It's always a mixed bag at the meet-ups; some are strangers and some are close friends, but it's a great way for all of us to connect and get to know each other. And I always do my best to dissolve any cliqueness, because I know that can make people feel very left out. (Of course I can only speaking for the ones that I've organized, I've not been to many other meet-ups this year, unfortunately)

So, I hope you do come next time. I'll be looking forward to it ^_^

[rabastiancolete.livejournal.com]

wow the boy with the blond wig is beautiful

[killclosedrown.livejournal.com]

Mmm...sailor bishie with rocking horse shoes! Thank you for making my day, bakaxtenshi ^^

[nursemachine.livejournal.com]

lol sailor jumpsuit! When we walk around Chicago, sailors will follow us around like, "WELL HELLO THERE!" it's so cute and funny!

Nice pictures! Looks like you had fun!

[necrisha-lynx.livejournal.com]

*looks*

Awsomeness! I have a male friend who could probably pull off the sailor outfit... Just not the rocking horse shoes, he's giving me height envy already.

err... Thanks for the inspiration. Hopefully next spring I'll cool pics to share too.

Oh, and may I save a couple?

[oshidori.livejournal.com]

Of course you can! ^_^

[mayuki-miyazawa.livejournal.com]

Send me a plane ticket- I'll come to the next one! You look gorgeous in Baby, your ringlets are beautiful!

[oshidori.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

And lol, only if you send me one for your country in exchange! Maybe there should be an international Loli exchange program XD

[duplica-chan.livejournal.com]

it's lovely to see men in these suits !!! *_*

[jolie-laide.livejournal.com]

Yay for Meta jumpsuits!

[rikit.livejournal.com]

*____*
those jumpsuitssssss are droolllllll
and the guys in them are droollll too XD XD

[feytaline.livejournal.com]

You're gorgeous as always. I'm glad to hear you guys had a great time. Someday I must drag myself up to NY to visit everyone!

[oshidori.livejournal.com]

Yes yes! Please do!

And thank you ^_^

[mordath.livejournal.com]

Tall or not, you look adorable in that jumperskirt. All those pictures are absolutely precious, I love them!

More picture posts! With pictures not hosted on Photobucket! Yay!

[oshidori.livejournal.com]

Yay thank you! ^_^ ♥

And I know!!! I HATE photobucket with a passion! Zoto is free too, and way more reliable. I wonder why people don't use that instead?

[aingli-deas.livejournal.com]

I have to say this, or it'll bug me.

But I don't think that comment was in any way, shape, or form a bash on women. More like a celebration of modest dressed women which would indeed be "woman loving" instead of the usual "good" comments towards women who are dressed, well, less than respectable (IMO, that's misogynist).

Sorry, I'm bugged by the overuse of that word, simply because most people use it when it doesn't apply, at all.

[oshidori.livejournal.com]

As you said, it's only your opinion.

[aingli-deas.livejournal.com]

It's more like...

reality.

Sorry.

[oshidori.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok I see. You don't proofread. And then you get defensive when it's pointed out. I've been busy lately, but I think I've heard about you.

Well, I guess that ends that.

[aingli-deas.livejournal.com]

Uhm, no, I put that in there so it didn't make you feel bad that perhaps you took what they said completely wrong.

heard about me? uhm, ok, I don't understand, but whatever floats your boat.