EGL Fashion

50 questions:

1. Please tell us your Hand Name (name that’s used ONLY in internet.) and hometown.
EggCosplays, San Antonio

2. About how long is your history as a Lolita?
3 to 4 years

3. What first motivated you to do Lolita fashion?
Angelic Pretty Brainrot circa 2016

4. After knowing Lolita fashion, have you had any time-gap or resistance till you actually started to be Lolita?
Yes

5. Please define your Lolita style as much as possible. (eg. gothic Lolita, sweet Lolita, white Lolita…. Etc).
Old school-ish, sweet, offensive amount of strawberries

6. About how many Lolita friends do you have?
Irl? none

7. What is the best thing about doing Lolita?
Unrelenting serotonin

8. Conversely, what's the worst thing?
Texas heat and petticoats do not mix.

9. Which Lolita Brands do you like?
BTSSB, Meta, Angelic Pretty, Atelier Pierrot, Alice Girl, Bodyline

10. What was the first Lolita item that you’ve owned?
Putumayo Stargazer OP

11. What is the “must have!” Lolita item?
For me, RHS

12. Do you wear drawers?
Only for the approximately 20mins its cold in February

13. Do you have any favourite Japanese music?
Yes

14. Where do you particularly visit as Lolita?
Ikea, for some reason

15. About how many times per week do you dress as Lolita?
Maybe once

16. Please tell us about one embarrassing episode from the time when you were
just beginning Lolita.
My entire beginning was embarrassing

17. What's hairstyle and color that you think Lolita would suite the most?
Depends on the wearer’s taste

18. Have you ever thought of stopping Lolita? The reason?
No

19. Please tell us your heart's bible as a Lolita. (anything like a book, magazine, CD, idol...) I use the old streetsnaps and the coords in the discord as inspo

20. Do you own a doll? Tell us your feelings about her intensely!
I am pathologically terrified of dolls

21. What kind of make-up do you wear when you wear Lolita clothes?
Eyeliner and mascara, foundation if its winter

22. Have you ever secretly changed clothes in a train station bathroom on Lolita day-out? No

23. Are you composed when doing Lolita all by yourself?
Yes

24. How much do you spend in your Lolita clothes& accessary monthly?
Fluctuates, never more than $210 at a time

25. What is the most expensive Lolita thing you've bought so far? How much was it?
Metamorphose Flocking Poodle JSK (2006) $210 after shipping

26. So far about how much has the expense been for Lolita goods?
Less than 1.5k total

27. Lolita outfit really costs money. How do you raise money to cover the cost of
Lolita?
I work fifty hours a week and hope my electric bill isnt too high

28. Have you ever bought from an online store? If so, please tell us its good
and bad points and some advice for the future. If not, please tell us why not.
I have only bought from online stores.
Best point: I dont have to leave my house and I get to save money on gasoline
Worst Point: stock images can be deceptive

29. Even if you sort of want to keep it a secret, please clandestinely tell us
about a private manufacturer that is the best.
I think its really great that Meta is being more size inclusive and I wish the other big brands would as well.

30. Is there a brand and/or an item that you think, "I could never get it! But I unreasonably want it!"?
Sugary Carnival OP in black, AP Musical Note JSK and AP Cake Applique OP

31. What do you think about people who only do Lolita at music-lives or cosplay?
Anyone willing to put forth the effort to actually wear the fashion is valid.

32. From what age to what age is it acceptable to do Lolita? Do you think that there's a state in which someone must graduate from
Lolita? Anyone of any age can wear lolita fashion

33. Is there a Lolita fashion or behavior that you think "I don't want Lolitas to do this!" about?
As long as its not actively hurting other people or making people think our fashion is a kink/sex related thing, I dont care. Wait, no. I really wish overspending wasnt such a thing in the community.

34. Is there something you think "Lolita has to be this way!" about?
The silhouette has to be the lolita silhouette

35. While doing Lolita, has something changed from earlier than you did Lolita?
I get stared at in public more often

36. Do you go to school/work as Lolita?
No, I have a work uniform

37. Do you wear Lolita clothes as casual wear?
Yes

38. Do you have a boyfriend (or husband)? Do you understand each other? (I think she meant “Does he understand you (as lolita)?”)
I’m not really dating anyone

39. What do the people around you think of your doing Lolita? Do they accept it?
My family is fine with it, the old ladies at my church think its nostalgic, my friends think its cool.

40. What kind of Lolita is who has impressed you the most up until now?
MissCarolBelle, SewBlack, RaineDragon, Ellie Vyra, MagicalGirlMe(Callista), LovelyLor, AsamiMoon, and FluffyKawaiiJo

41. Have you ever made your own Lolita clothing or/and accessories? If so, what was the best item that you’ve made?
Yes, my best item(s) are a matching set: purse, skirt, capelet, headbow

42. If you have an ideal Lolita outfit or coordination, please tell us.
Any coord where I get to wear either Shirring Princess, Flocking Poodle JSK, or my Heartful JSK

43. Is there a motif that you think “this is a simple of Lolita”?
Usakumya

44. Would you want to dress your children as Lolita?
I will never have kids, but my brother’s not yet born child of yet undetermined gender will probably have at least one jsk/op made for them.

45. What's your image of the ideal Lolita?
No such thing