The Japanese Lolita Style?

Question

I'm just curious to know how many of you anime fans like it ?

and how many of you know it's meaning (calling 1900s girls wear by the name 'Lolita' I mean) ?

I'm just astounded by the amount of ignorance in people who claim to like it, I like 1900s wear but, I don't like Lolita because what it stands for bothers me. So, I'm just conducting a little survey.

Answer 1

I love the novel, the films and the style! If it's got the word Lolita in it, it's gotta be good!

Answer 2

I'm not particularly a fan of anime, or rather made-for-Japanese-television animated series, but I've read Nabokov's novel "Lolita" and I'm also familiar with the film version. Using the name "Lolita" in connection with any feminine clothing strikes me as a poor idea, but if someone is completely unaware of the novel and the film adaption, plus 10,000 letters to newspaper editors in the early sixties, they wouldn't be bothered in the least.

Interestingly, Yahoo's automatic spell checker doesn't know the word "anime" but it does recognize "Lolita," which certainly tells me something.

Answer 3

I like some of the Lolita style. Mostly the gothic and Wa/Qi Lolita, Also I do know about the origins of the word Lolita from the book, but that doesn't really bother me. It's not I like the clothes because of what others think. I like the clothes because they are pretty.

Answer 4

I love old Victorian style but the Lolita fashion just looks perverted.

Answer 5

To the first two people:Perverted?!?

Lolita fashion,past the beautiful clothes,is all about innocence.That's why the girls that follow it show almost no skin.

Personally I LOVE this new wave of fashion,especially the gothic lolita and the classic lolita&the aristocrat.

I find the wa/qi lolita style very interesting too,mixing traditional japanese elements and victorian ones.

If I could,I would love to follow this style,I find it so extremely elegant and beautiful.I am planning to learn to sow!^_^And maybe I'll order some clothes through the internet.

Anyway,pics of some of my favourites!!

Classic loli&Aristocrat:http://www.photo2box.com/images/ta41vo03...

Gothloli:http://media.photobucket.com/image/gothi...

Wa loli:http://nekopowaa.oldiblog.com/sites/imag...

Answer 6

I definately like the old victorian style but not so much Japanese Lolita. It just makes me think of perverted men.

Answer 7

Lolita fashion has nothing to do with the novel.

Lolita fashion is about innocence and is a very modest fashion. We want to look cute, not s**y. I'm trying to get what about a teenager or girl in her 20's 30's (Yes, girls wear it when they're that old.) wearing a poofy knee-length skirt shouts "PEDOPHILIA!" to you.

You're thinking that we're taking that clothing and trying to associate it with the western meaning of the word lolita, but we aren't. When the novel Lolita was put as suggested reading in the GLB in Japan, many readers were shocked and appalled. They had no idea what Lolita meant to us over in the West.

Lolita was a girl's name before it was ever the name of that novel, and "Roriita" was just seen as a cute name by those who named that fashion in Japan. We're not ignorant. We know about the book. It just doesn't have anything to do with us.

I can link you to a million places where conversations on this have taken place, and never has one of them ended in "Yeah, we're totally trying to act like precocious young girls when we're wearing knee-length-skirts while the girls around us are wearing mini-skirts and we never show cleavage while they do."

Answer 8

Loltia style is meant to be very conservative. That means no leg and no cleavage. It's intended to make you appear to have the innocence of a young girl. But it's not just Victorian style, there are a  lot of different types of lolita.

Answer 9

I'm not a fan of Lolita fashion. It is an expensive extravagance which is often mixed-matched with Gothic undertones. I am also surprised at other people's ignorance for where the term came from. I have no idea how a fashion style can be named after a famous novel named "Lolita" by Vladamir Nabakov, whose protagonist Dolores Haze is a precocious 12-year old girl caught up in a sexual relationship with the pedophile Humbert Humbert. So to me, girls that dress in Lolita fashion unknowingly seek attention from pedophiles. That scares me.

Answer 10

My daughter loves it. I have no idea what it means. I just know that every year at Halloween my mom (Grandma) sews my 16 years old whatever "weird" gothic Lolita dress my daughter wants.