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Lolita

Lolita is a fashion subculture in Japan that is primarily influenced by Victorian children's clothing as well as costumes from the Rococo period. Lolita has made this into a unique fashion by adding gothic and original design elements to the look. From this, Lolita fashion has evolved into several different sub styles and has created a devoted subculture in japan. The Lolita look consists primarily of a knee length skirt or dress, headdress, blouse, petticoat, knee high socks or stockings and rocking horse or high heel/platform shoes.

There are many styles of Lolita, but this is the page for lolita-lolitas, or rather, those who wear various lolita outfits from the different styles, or outfits right between the different styles, often between sweet and gothic; lighter than gothic, not as cutsie as sweet, there is a lot of variety in lolita, as it goes from light flowery jsks too mature to be sweet to burgandy onepeices not dark enough to be gothic, but nearly.

The makeup used in Lolita is often quite muted, with an emphasis placed on natural coloring.

In Japan, despite still being a subculture and fringe fashion, Lolita fashion is mass-marketed and has wide visibility particularly in the streets of Tokyo and Osaka, on television, in manga (see Paradise Kiss by Ai Yazawa or Princess Princess (manga) by Mikiyo Tsuda for examples of lolita inspired manga) and computer games. Outside of Japan it is still a widely unknown fringe fashion although it has slowly begun to spread to other countries. Lolita fashion, along with cosplay and other Japanese cultural phenomena, can sometimes be seen at concerts and anime conventions throughout Europe and the United States. The style has not yet been mass marketed outside of Japan, although increasingly Japanese brands are available for purchase abroad directly from the brands. However, there are plenty of dedicated fans filling the still-remaining gap. Lolita fashion magazines are widely available for purchase on the Internet and at Japanese bookstores which also deal in anime and manga. Adherents often sew their own homemade lolita outfits, sometimes offering them for sale to make up for the difficulty of acquiring them from Japan. Apart from most western fashions, Lolita tends to hold higher expectations to those that dress it. Higher quality clothes are favored over "cheap" lace and cosplay-esque designs. Many adherents also purchase lolita outfits and accessories online from Japanese brands such as Baby, The Stars Shine Bright or other fellow lolitas.

Lolita as a fashion is not as strongly associated with a particular style of music or outside interests as Goth, and individual followers of Lolita fashion may listen to a wide variety of music, from Classical music to pop and rock.

Lolitas often take an interest in things deemed appropriate for a young girl in the rococo period, such as embroidery, and beleive that it is in the nature of a lolita to be polite, elegent, cute, and demure at all times.

Male Lolita are sometimes casually reffered to as 'Brolita'.

Info from wikipedia, edited rather heavily by me. Image found on DA, and, again, edited by me.