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 स्कर्ट या dress, head dress, blouse, petticoat, knee high socks या stockings and high heel या platform shoes.
Although the origin of Lolita fashion is unclear, it is likely the movement started in the late 1970s when famous labels including गुलाबी House, दूध and Angelic Pretty began selling clothes that would be considered "Lolita" द्वारा today's standards. Shortly after that came Baby, The Stars Shine Bright, and Metamorphose temps de fille. In the 1990s, Lolita fashion became better recognised, with bands like Malice Mizer and other Visual Kei (or visual type) bands coming into popularity. These bands wore intricate costumes, which प्रशंसकों began adopting as their own style.
The style soon spread from its origins in the Kansai region, and ultimately reached Tokyo where it became popularized throughout Japanese youth culture. Today, Lolita fashion has grown so much in popularity that it can be found even in department stores in Japan. Today many young people wear the fashion all around the world.
Lolita is a Japanese सड़क, स्ट्रीट fashion inspired primarily द्वारा the clothing and general aesthetics of the Rococo and Victorian periods. This fashion movement started in जापान in the 1980's and has evolved greatly since. Nowadays Lolita Fashion has grown to be relatively लोकप्रिय all over the world. Relatively लोकप्रिय for an obscure Japanese सड़क, स्ट्रीट fashion, that is.
While it is true that most fashions are open to various interpretations, the term Lolita is used exclusively to describe a very specific (one could say narrow) look that is created द्वारा abiding द्वारा a number of strict guidelines and principles.
The "rules" of Lolita fashion don't exist to the wearer but are rather qualifiers of what makes an outfit Lolita. Within these rules however there are a variety of styles.
गॉथिक Lolita is probably the style associated most with Lolita Fashion outside of Japan. Lolita Fashion is often referred to as GothLoli या EGL. While GothLoli can be a correct term it only applies to the specific गॉथिक subset and not Lolita fashion as a whole, however EGL is an abbreviation of the term Elegant गॉथिक Lolita, which was coined द्वारा the Japanese musician Mana to describe his specific Lolita clothing line.
The term "Lolita" may be off-putting to those who first hear about the fashion because of the connotation it holds from Vladimir Nabokov's novel, "Lolita", which changed the meaning of the name for most people in the Western world.
It is generally assumed though that the name of the fashion comes from a distortion of the meaning while word-borrowing from English. In the case of the fashion the term "Lolita" only refers to the child-like nature of some of the clothes and is also used because of the beauty या cuteness of the name. Lolita Fashion is emphatically not about looking sexy and is instead about looking cute या elegant.
In addition to being a fashion, some people enjoy living a "Lolita Lifestyle" in which one sees Lolita as और of a philosophy of living beautifully rather than just dressing it. Someone living a Lolita Lifestyle may try and live like a princess, surrounding themselves with things of beauty, and taking part in a number of ‘proper’ feminine activities such as baking, embroidery, sewing and other पुराने ज़माने का, पुराने जमाने "women's" activities.
Lolita is an interesting fashion, in that there is an incredible variety of styles within it: so much so that it is very easy for a newbie to become overwhelmed. I have often seen सवालों of this nature: Can I be Lolita if I don't like too much lace? Am I a "real" Lolita if I only like Punk Lolita? Do I have to choose only one style and stick with it forever? Can I wear Sweet and गॉथिक style together?
First off, because there are many styles of Lolita, no style is "more Lolita" than another. Sweet may be और लोकप्रिय than Classic, but there is no rule that says Sweet Lolitas are the be all and end all of Lolita Land.
There is also no rule which says आप cannot wear any या all of the styles to your heart's content. Most Lolitas do dabble in at least two styles. And of course, there is no hard-and-fast line between what defines something as Sweet and what defines it as Gothic, when both can come in black and both can have the same silhouette. The problem is (and this is why आप will find that most Lolitas stay close to their प्रिय style) the cost.
Most Lolita styles have a basic color scheme. Sweet, for example, barely deviates from the black/white/pink/blue color wheel. Lolita also looks best when it works with only two या three रंग in a single outfit, and so that गुलाबी Angelic Pretty स्कर्ट आप just bought will probably need entirely गुलाबी and white accessories. Consider how much आप will have to buy to match with that skirt: head dress, blouse, petticoat, bloomers, socks, shoes, maybe a jacket, maybe a purse, maybe some jewellry. This is for just one outfit.
