✨🌸🎀 Reacting to a 10 Year Old Lolita Fashion Documentary 🎀🌸✨

[@RiotFortuneee]

"Do lolitas still carry around parasols?" YES ABSOLUTELY. I love in socal, if I don't carry one around I'll melt. You could try buying direct from brand or trying taobao. I feel like even if you could find one second hand its hard to know if the person shipping it to you would pack it safely, where-as you can get your money back if you buy it direct from a brand. (Who have packed many a parasol!)

[@theultimateswagsters4959]

Ngl my mom made me a Lolita thing by taking the coating off an umbrella and using fabric to make me one-

[@byff6209]

I have to agree with them on labeling and keeping fashion pure, ive been into fairy kei and gyaru for a while and it seems like in Japan theyre doibg more experimenting and just having more fun, but anywhere else youre "disgracing the fashion/subculture" even if its still clearly that fashion. Maybe i don't wanna wear contacts y'all, a lot of gyaru dont

[@TheStitchess]

I feel like lolita is especially like that too, even now. If I tag a lolita aesthetic pic with lolita fashion and it isn’t 100% by the rules I get all kinds of silly messages lol I sort of get it, but at the same time fashion should be able to grow and evolve with time

[@byff6209]

@@TheStitchess I think the "rules" of classic/original fairy kei are just right for flexibility in fashion. Keep to cute prints and designs, mostly pastel. Older pictures of fairy kei include plenty of black and white, but that automatically "disqualifies" any coord :(

[@TheStitchess]

I agree that black can look kind of awkward in fairy kei but it looks really good with pop kei looks!

[@byff6209]

@@TheStitchess I meant black in stripes and polka dots, like the cords with white skirts with black polka dots. I wouldnt go for a full black skirt or anything ^^;

[@notyourhime]

I see parasols on the secondhand Japanese markets pretty often! They are for sure still a thing.

[@TheStitchess]

!!!! Which ones???

[@brittany16950]

I just saw a second hand AP’s Daydream Carnival parasol and it was STILL $150. And that’s before shipping!!

[@IonIsFalling7217]

"if I dOn't GeT mY lOlITa I geT dePReSSeD"

[@ThistlesPins]

Oooh, I remember reading about the documentary on Aly's and Victoria's blogs when it was being made but I never really watched it! I think in a way I miss the innocence and simplicity of the 2009 styles and the lifestyle obsession, even though even with nostalgia goggles it looks far less "refined and mature" than today's version. Thank you for this trip down memory lane, I loved the video!

[@TheStitchess]

I love it for a lot of the same reasons you do! No matter how cringey it feels now, I can’t help but feel a heavy dose of nostalgia.

[@the8thinkerAX]

I use parasols a lot! A lot of lolitas from my comm use them too for outside events :)

[@Lusty0Majo]

Same here ! Parasols are barely sold second hand because troubles with shipping.

[@wanessaribeiro3965]

Also, the description of the video could be just "what was 2009?" and "i was formed in the uterus with a bow on my head" asuadsuhdsshauh

[@TheStitchess]

I was really tempted to make an American Beauty reference when she started going on about there being “so much beauty in the world...”

[@wanessaribeiro3965]

@@TheStitchess omg, yes!

[@yaggy3818]

When I was 6 my mom, and antiques dealer got me my first parasol. I took it everywhere. Then I started collecting vintage dolls, and now Lolita :>

[@wanessaribeiro3965]

We love some lolita fashion content

[@mossyroots6631]

I came to this channel because of lovely Lor reacting to the same documentary and she linked to your video in hers.

[@harmonyspath3886]

I die a little more inside every time I see someone calling themself a lolita but not wearing a blouse.

[@Ilsezwarts]

for me it super depends,,, I can appreciate it in a super old school like 90s old school coord, when it was super normal. Some JSKs can still look balanced (blah blah promenade de Paris blah, but that is basically an OP so who's counting) but yeah, in general it just DOES look better when you wear a blouse, and people who want to discuss this are mostly looking for excuses instead of genuinely finding advice for balanced coords.

[@Keltain]

I’ve got like 2 jsks that were advertised as summer beach side coordinates and meant to not be worn with a blouse. It super depends on the cord I think. Like yeah some REALLY don’t work without a blouse but some are designed to not be

[@dae8665]

Popping in a year later to say, I have a light sky blue lace parasol that cost me $80 because it was handcrafted by someone else, but I would definitely use it if I were to coordinate a lolita look that had light colours (my whole wardrobe turned black and gray lmao) but I remember in high school, I had a friend who wanted to make lolita dresses with me, but she was constantly berating me and saying my ideas weren't ""true lolita"" if I didn't add long enough socks or a fluffy enough petticoat and also she told me I would never look good in sweet lolita, and I was like? Friendship over lol I can wear whatever I want tf /:

[@Ilsezwarts]

Oh man, I joined lolita around 2015, but the lifestyle obsession that was present just before my time as a newcomer has always been so interesting and funny to me, especially now. Nobody really talks about lifestyle lolita anymore,

[@Lusty0Majo]

How did I manage to have never seen this documentary ! Makes me so nostalgic because it dates back when I entered my local comm. Thank you for the discovery

[@TheStitchess]

It came out when I was fairly new to the fashion too ^-^

[@Dezey.a]

I had a parasol for no reason. Never used it but it was in my house. It was pastel purple

[@liiksaffcaa5498]

Very interesting video, like as usual on your channel ^^ I have never and i'm not into lolita fashion, but i love to see other people talking about it, it's very fascinating. And, even though back in 2009 American lolitas weren't always following the rules, i found some of their outfits very cute. You should do more videos like this one btw ^^

[@TheStitchess]

Aww, I’m glad you liked it! I don’t really care about the “rules” at all, I just think it’s funny that they really specified that the rules exist but then didn’t follow them for a good chunk of their outfits lol

[@lenroz]

Omg how did I miss this?! This was another fun video. The nostalgia is real.

[@jaelavelazquez6627]

Parasols are still a thing check out lace market they have some for sale at the moment actually!

[@comicconcarne]

I'm not a lolita but I have a couple petticoat dresses and skirts. I got my parasol from the ER at my mom's hospital, because it was in lost and found for a month and my mom said "hey, that looks like something my offspring would wear". It's massive, and is worth it for any event in the afternoon - Florida's weather in the rainy season is a heat wave at 1pm and a rainstorm anywhere from 2pm to 4pm. I get trying to limit your consumption, but it's very unlikely that a parasol is gonna fall out of the blue like mine because there's not a surplus of them. It'd be best to just buy direct from a brand you like.

[@triplehearts914]

the black haired girl is so pretty!

[@maxens_is_here]

Wow I totally didn't expect to hear that, but the song at the end was from a French teenage singer called Mel's (IIRC) who used to post her music on Jamendo back in the days! It's the English version! She really wasn't well-known at all, it was a platform to share free (as in free software -- libre) music! www.jamendo.com/track/3350/hey-girl-english-version?language=en

[@BlackSnow28]

I had to get a parasol because of health reasons They're SO hard to find, they're only in amazon and they take like 2 months to be shipped from china xD

[@Megu_Byte]

Getting big Pixielocks vibes from this gal

[@TheStitchess]

I hope that’s a good thing lol 😂

[@rainbowbw95]

The Stitchess IT IS. Tbh though you should invest in a better microphone or audio equipment

[@TheStitchess]

Beanie Poopie I know 😭 I’m using an ancient yeti mic rn but I really want something better

[@meameam]

yes they said a lot of cringey stuff but weren't we all doing the same in 2009

[@amordesdemona]

ANNA HOUSE. My first ever coord was an AH skirt and a blouse from Fanplusfriend

[@crystalkirlia4553]

I find them at the antique store. There's two on the street where I go to college (uk, it's free and mandatory. Basically like American high school) there are tonnes of antique stores in my town.

[@suzubee9602]

This feels like a 90s no budget type film

[@nikkiboucher8972]

Psst parasols are on Amazon

[@Keltain]

I use parasols but I also have vitiligo and used them before I got into lolita so ???

[@meggaroo2]

My the only one that got my parasail from Amazon?

[@exomake_mehorololo]

I'm pretty sure amai is Japanese for sweet... So it would make sense to call sweet Lolita ...well sweet Lolita in Japanese amai Lolita?

[@TheStitchess]

It wasn’t amai tho it was just spelled ama-lolita on places like egl lol

[@exomake_mehorololo]

@@TheStitchess I'd still say it's from word amai. ama-sake..is "sweet" sake. And we're just transcribing it from Japanese.

[@0Nikorin0]

Umbrellas are still a thing :D

[@xwillowunderwoodx2894]

Parasols aren’t really the same as umbrellas in my opinion umbrellas are usually used for rain while Parasols are usually used to use as shade.

[@0Nikorin0]

@@xwillowunderwoodx2894 Oh, didn't know there's a difference in English. In my language both of them are called the same~

[@xwillowunderwoodx2894]

@@0Nikorin0 it’s alright

[@bellesaysmeow]

the title card just screams p*rn0. surely even in 2009 they'd realise that, right? r I g H t?

[@solidhatchetresurrected7695]

You looked so much healthier back then you've lost weight go eat a Twinkie I'm sorry that was really mean you look fine

[@xwillowunderwoodx2894]

What...

[@emoinurbasement6143]

Wtf

[@lilifel]

No she is healthier now she was overweight

[@agostoangosto9442]

Character growth