Aka: Why I Have Stopped Liking Lolita Fashion

This dress

is a perfect example.  Holy god this dress is cute.  Look at the layers, the color, everything is perfect.  You look, you look, the longer you look, the more something seems off.  And then suddenly you see the bow, and the cheap fabric they used to make it.  This would have been the most adorable dress, but the dress had been ruined with overcomplication.
The straps need to lose the ruffles, and I don’t know why they chose to make the straps that god awful mismatching pink color anyway.

Here is a dress by Angelic Pretty:

this brand is notorious for making uncreative dresses and overpricing them.  And for some reason Angelic Pretty shops are the promised land of the egl community.  This dress could have been so adorable.  And it is adorable, if you haven’t seen any other Sweet Lolita dress.

The same dress concept keeps being revisited.  Over

and over

and over

and over

and over

and over.

sometimes there are changes “radical” enough to actually perceive that something in the pattern has changed.  A scalloped edge:

a change in neckline

Lolita is in statis.

I want it to wake up.

The silhouette is gorgeous, but nothing new.  Sometimes the prints are interesting, but they are rarely anything other than candy, tea, bows, flowers, or playing cards.

Classic Lolita is diminishing.  Gothic Lolita is nearly nonexistent.  I have lost hope.

Lolita was once a creative style that was individualistic and adorable.

I don’t know what happened.

It seems we have reached Lolita romanticism.

I hope Lolita minimalism comes soon.

(Or can we have Lolita cubism?  Not gonna lie, that would be pretty sweet.)