Fashion Trends: the Lolita trends

Lolita fashion becomes a popular trend for decades. And till now this attired trend seems still thriving. As a refection of ultimate fashion sense of Japanese people, Lolita styles feature a lot of elements from Japanese society and culture. Actually Lolita looks are actually the street fashion in 1980s in Japan and now they are seen all over the world and evoke a great style sensation among young girls.
In western world, Lolita is actually made famous by the novel of Vladimir Nabokov. In this novel an relationship between an older man and a young girl named "Lolita" has been revealed. As this word is really associated with a child-like, cute look of clothing, Japanese accepted this word for English. Lolita fashion trends now in English world is known to be inclined heavily towards the Victorian fashion and inspired by the costumes of the Rococo period.

Whatever, many people may feel confused with Lolita cosplay and Lolita. As a matter of fact, they are not the same. Cosplay Lolita is worn by those who wish to dress in Lolita as more of a costume, usually only at anime or game conventions. This type of Lolita outfit is normally crudely put together. A dress in this style is usually created from a sort of satin, adorned with oodles of scratchy lace, and is not very fitting to the Lolita fashion as a whole. A majority of dresses in this style are either too short and show far too much skin for any proper Lolita or are very reminiscent of a maid or nurse. This could be due to the fact that some associate Lolita with maid or nurse characters in anime.

Lolita fashionable attires come with a variety of styles. Sweet Lolita and Gothic Lolita are just two main subsets. Sweet Lolita styles feature lace frills, cotton skirts, bow decorations, pleated dresses, scalloped skirts, layers of ruffles, etc. They are all in sweet pastels like pink, light blue, lilac, white, cream, etc. And Gothic Lolita is a completely different style of Japanese creativity and though, used in different apparels and accessories. There are different categories of exotic Gothic Lolita style fashion garments that have world-wide presence. Showing a dark and scary aspects of the Gothic, Gothic Lolita represents detailed and distinct dark elegance and Gothic style with innocence.

With the growing in popularity, Lolita actually evolves a subculture now. Apart from fashion, some women are also living a Lolita lifestyle that refers to a philosophy of living more than to a dressing style. They enjoy that fun when living a life like a princess and make use of beautiful things for decorations and never thinking of themselves as persons who are never going to grow up!

Modern life is full of pressures and why not just grab some Lolita styled attires to get free from that daily life of fast tempo? Show your allure and Have fun!

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