Other Lolita Fashions
There are many varieties of Lolita fashion; if you’ve been experimenting with Lolita costumes and haven’t yet found your niche, you can check some of these out. First, a short list of the most self-explanatory forms of Lolita fashion, and below it, some of the more complex styles, with some explanation beside it.
- Princess Lolita – Tiaras and crowns, pinks, whites, lots of lace, and fairy tale fashions.
- Sailor Lolita – I’d say this one is fairly obvious; sailor suits modified for petticoats, skirts, and of course, sailor hats.
- Lolita Cosplay – This would probably encompass Lolita fashions combined with classic characters in literature, film, and anime.
- Guro/Gore Lolita – The style is also sometimes called “broken doll” and consists of elaborate innocent looking white loli dresses, spattered with blood, or torn in places. The idea is to look as if you’ve been murdered.
- Qi & Wa Loli – Qi Loli is traditional feminine Chinese clothing modified for Loli purposes; Wa is its Japanese counterpart. Which means modifying a qipao or kimono to fit petticoats underneath, and be only knee-length.
- Pirate Lolita – I bet you can’t guess what kind of outfits this style of Lolita uses.
- Country Lolita- Usually a slightly modified version of sweet lolita; it includes wicker baskets, and slightly rural themes like horses, or farm animals in the patterns, or gingham fabrics.
There are a few main styles of Lolita fashion from which all the substyles are derived. The parent categories; Gothic, Sweet, and Classic. Classic Lolita is the middle ground between ‘sweet’ and ‘gothic’. It uses muted, more mature colors and patterns, influenced by Edwardian, Regency, Rococo, and Victorian era fashion. The only spin that Classic Lolita adds to it from its base in traditional era clothing is the typical Lolita silhouette; cupcake-like skirt, and childish scaled down outfits.
Gothic Lolita is dark and morbid, with lots of blacks; imagine going to a Victorian funeral held chiefly by rich little girls, and you’d be pretty much at where Gothic Lolita is. Or at least, in the right mind frame to start designing the clothing. On the other hand, at the opposite end of the spectrum, is ‘Sweet Lolita’, –which is designed to make everyone within a ten mile radius die of blood sugar overdose. Pink, pink, pink, fluffy bunnies, puppies, kittens, pastels, bonnets, —it’s all there. The Sweet Lolita ideal is to be dressed as cutely as humanly possible. All the other substyles are derives of these three main Lolita fashions.
