Me 2 months into wearing lolita: Wow it’s crazy how so many listings on lacemarket are missing the detachable sleeves and waisties. These dresses are worth hundreds of dollars, you should be taking better care of your clothes. I could never treat my wardrobe so carelessly

Me 2 years into wearing lolita: uh oh

Johanna K. W. Hailman - My House (1938)

“She started writing notes and keeping them under her pillow, and then she started writing them on her pillowcase, hoping they would help her have better dreams. And if she couldn’t sleep, she could just read them and be reminded of something so stunningly beautiful that her heart would swell and her bones would sigh and for just a second, the world would not seem like it was going to crush her.”

— Emily Brontë, born today in 1818 (and the subject of Juliet Barker’s literary biography The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors)

Innocent World

Mariko Suzuki, the founding editor-in-chief of magazines Kera!, Kera MANIAX, and Gothic & Lolita Bible, will be publishing her first book titled Gothic & Lolita Dictionary on July 10th, 2024. The book will feature illustrations by Shunsuke Hasegawa, the designer for PUTUMAYO. If you're a fan of these out-of-print publications and the now-defunct brand, please consider showing your support for their upcoming project! The book is currently available for preorder on Amazon

“Doing what you love” Hallmark Cards mug (1987)

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"Swinging Strawberry Garden" series 🍓 「ゆらゆらいちごのStrawberry Garden」シリーズ

Emil Chronicle Online X BTSSB

http://www.econline.jp/md/dlpack/baby.html

ok bro who asked about hidden lolita fashion knowledge

Me? me. definately me, lol. Honestly, I think everyone who has ever tried to trace the history of lolita fashion in any level of detail. I have somewhere in the ballpark of 500 books/magazines in my collection (and if we include catalogs, postcards and flyers the individual number of print media pieces in my collection is probably closer to 1,000). I would say that maybe 1-2% of that information exists digitally online right now. That's just such a vast amount of information that isn't on the internet. Even something like the blurbs I write for the Lolibrary facebook when we launch a new brand/tag sometimes end up being the most indepth history of some of those brands in English on the internet and that's just wild to me. Because for me to even do that, we have to have a few dozen fashion items recorded in the database from that brand/designer already. Even simple things like "What year did this brand release their first collection" is often hard to find.

Baby, the Stars Shine Bright “Isabel” OP (2001)

𝓘'𝓿𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓰𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓪𝔀𝓱𝓲𝓵𝓮 𝓼𝓸 𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮'𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓻𝓸𝓫𝓮 𝓹𝓲𝓬𝓼 𝓘 𝓽𝓸𝓸𝓴 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓷𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓰𝓸𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓭𝓸𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓷𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱

also, the volks BJD version of the elizabeth OP isn't burberry cotton like the full sized one is, but more of a velveteen material.. i had no idea until it came in the mail and i'm pleasantly surprised--it's so soft!! i've never wanted to be a doll so badly T_T