Cyber Lolita?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lylith_/]

I'm always one for blending of styles and evolving fashion, and I was wondering what your opinions were on using non-traditional materials on lolita style dresses and things. Like perhaps vinyl on the cuffs and collar of a jacket or blouse, or buckles and bondage straps on dresses? Maybe throwing in some cyber-goth brights or a sort of post-apocolyptic rivet lolita look? I'm just playing around with some ideas here. Admittedly, I've only recently really become aware of egl as an instituted style, I've always been one to mix whatever I've worn with a sort of little girl flair.

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[serena-bliss.livejournal.com]

The fusion look is totally my thing; I figured I'd just lurk on this forum if the purists minded.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_lylith_/]

The thing about purists is that sometimes they seem to sort of become a slave to the style.

[plague2032.livejournal.com]

You aren't the first to think that one up. Plenty of people do it. Knock yourself out, have fun.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_lylith_/]

Oh, I don't think I'm the first to think it up, I guess I was just wondering what other people's ideas were, what sort of things do other people like to put together?

[mmymoon.livejournal.com]

"Whine whine whine about purists" / "Whine whine whine about dilution" / "Whine whine whine"

(Fashion has lots of styles, people -- there will always be pure cyber and pure lolita and pure fruity-style fashion and pure velvet-pointy-shoed romanti-goths. EGL deserves to be allowed to exist as EGL... but it doesn't keep some of us from going to pink gingham and some of us to pink vinyl... and some of us to puke at pink. ;9)

ANYWAY! I personally don't puke at pink. I worship pink. PINK IS THE NEW BLACK.
Cyber lolita has always been my gothique style of choice; petticoats and neon pink stripey stockings just go together, in my opinion. Now, I am coming from a largely goth-club-scene-influenced fashion style, but it seems like cyber & lolita blend reaaaaaaaaally well in a lot of cases. The giant platforms are shared, there are lots of cute pigtail hair extensions, and japanese fashion in general... I saw a lime green parasol the other night, that was spiffy.

Cyber tends to be sleeker a lot of times, so I try to pair a lot of my uber-ruffly stuff with the tight shirts to balance it out.... I have yet to find a really cute girly pair of goggles.

My current project is a pink gown which is mostly inspired by egl brands (visible) but with tank-style neckline and separate sleeves. As much as I love loli, I can never seem to bring myself to cover my shoulders!

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_lylith_/]

I come from a goth club scene myself, and I love standing out, instead of blending in with everyone else. I'm heavily cyber and rivet influenced, and when I was in highschool I wore a lot of victorian and alice in wonderland inspired clothing.
I've been thinking of making a high collared lolita style dress with a slash right above the bust, a la Dane tops, puffed sleeves and slashed tight vinyl armwarmers.
I agree about pink. I am in love with bubble gum pink and black, and also colours like lime green and electric blue.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_lylith_/]

Thank you, I will. It may be a long time in the making though because I am such a procrastinator about projects...bad me.

[mmymoon.livejournal.com]

*cackles* The sad thing is, my club has enough cyber-girls and rivet-heads (and steampunk and et cetera) so that lime green feels right at home. Too much vinyl. (PVC makes me itch!)

Hmm.... actually, we lack capes and velvet. ... I just realized that... I feel odd now... we don't actually have many romantigoths... oh dear. I'm going to go leave Anne Rice novels on our doorstep.

Oh well! I love love love your idea. My friend and I were makin' Dane-esque tops the other day... my only advice to you is neat fabric paint! Bwheeheehee! It's so easy to get really cool results with that, if you like designs. I kind of went a little insane with the bright sparkly pink glow in the dark circuit-board thing. (Did you see that cross-posted circuit board embroidery? LUST.)

I don't usually make full combination pieces (I am a mix-and-match WHORE) but that sounds soooo nifty. Must finish ballgown... must... finish.... It's a sort of dark rose velvet, but I wish I could find bright pink stretch velvet.

*head explody*

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_lylith_/]

fabric paint...hmm...sounds fun, I wonder if I'd have enough artistic talent for that...
Anyway, strangely enough here we seem to have some die hard romantic goth types that mix in with the cyber and rivet crowd fairly well.

[mb2u]

The whole idea of fashion is to make it your own! I'd love to see you do cyberlolita-or whatever else you want to try! I've been known to mix skirts with lace and bows and petticoats with leather corsets and fishnet tops. It's not EGL or EGA, it's "ZeldaGothLolita." In other words, do it!

[kogejen.livejournal.com]

That sounds very cool. Though I don't like PVC at all, I think some kind of shimmery nylon might be cool. Maybe make a lolita skirt out of shimmery neon pink, trim it with lace and put a couple of buckles on it? That'd be cute.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_lylith_/]

Very cute, actually. Thanks for the idea!

[mmymoon.livejournal.com]

*drools*

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[kogejen.livejournal.com]

No, no, no! Only drool on the PVC one, because that wipes right off!

You know, that's the only good thing I see about PVC...

[aitreni.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think that sounds more "traditional" than the current style. Back when I was first getting into visual in '95~96, everybody wore vinyl, vinyl trim, and lots and lots of buckles. The softer romantic style didn't become popular until a couple of years later. The stores that people seemed to get their clothes from were Confusion (high-end) and the less expensive Richard's/Mari's. Confusion's gone now, but Mari's is still around...

http://www.maris-rock.co.jp/index.html
(only the plainest items are on the site, I don't know why ^^;)

I'm not sure that style is considered lolita, though. It's a cool look, but thematically it's so different that it seems strange to put them both under the same label.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_lylith_/]

Hmm..interesting. I really don't know all that much about the history of japanese fashion.