'Lolitas' Big in Japan
Posted by anastasia on 09-17-2004
The Wall Street Journal has a story today — "The Little-Girl Look Is Big in Japan" — (which you can't read unless you are a subscriber) about how the "the 'Lolita' look — elaborate, doll-like costumes festooned with ruffles and lace — has grown from a tiny subculture to a burgeoning fashion craze in Japan." (Thanks Jon!) Since I can't really link to it, I dug up some other sites that talk about this trend. There is a fun goth zine called Morbid Outlook that writes about the Goth "Lolita" craze — "a Japanese teen or young adult who dresses in amazingly elaborate Gothic looking babydoll costumes." Channel News Asia also addresses gothic "Lolita" fashion. The story actually puts the beginning of this trend back in the 70s, with Tokyo women in their 20s wearing "Frills and ribbons in pink and blue." So the goth version is the "new" spin.
I guess if teens are going to dress up like sexualized little girls, I prefer the Goth version.
(Photo by Luscious Dilettante)
