Lolita Clothing and Lolita Fashion

Since 1980s, there emerged a group of people on streets in Harajuku district. They wore in clothes different from the normal people. And among these clothes the lolita is the most representative style.

Black Short Sleeves Gothic Lolita Dress

Pink and White Bow Sweet Lolita Dress

It is some special and unique features that make lolita clothing representative. The sweet and cute look is what lolita pursue. The use of colors and lovely elements are great. The styles,design and decoration play essential role in lolita style clothing.
Whenever the style has stepped into the fashion world, it means it has reached popularity by a lot of people. And so does the loltia fashion. No matter in Japan or wester world, an increasing number of ladies and women are fond of this style. Within the fashion, some sub-genres has been developed which include gothic lolita, sweet lolita, classic lolita and rococo lolita etc. They share lolita look but with different tones.

Types of Silhouette in Lolita Dresses

As the lolita style clothing increase its popularity in nowadays clothing field, it is necessary to know some basic patterns of lolita style clothing. In the following part, I will focus on the different types of silhouette in lolita style dresses.

Bell Shaped
A skirt that starts at the waist, and flares out into a very full design in bell-shape at the bottom. This is a very common and favored lolita style dress.

Vintage Black Classic Lolita Dress

A-Line
A dress in A-ling design means the dress looks like a letter A. Unlike the full skirt design, it is a more mature and fond by women. It is fitted around the waist area than other forms of lolita skirts or dresses. And it is most applied into the classic lolita style dresses.

Pleated Skirt
Pleated skirt design is probably the most easily recognizable type of skirt.The pleated skirt is that the pleats running around the skirt that start at the waist.

Black and Red Gothic Lolita Skirt for Women

High Waisted Skirt
A high waisted skirt is a skirt that have a fitted design around the middle of the waist. It is also could be called the underbust skirt that has a long strip of fabric running around the top of the skirt that outlines the figure of the wearer.
Although most Lolita dresses and skirts look like a cup cake, there are many types of dresses and skirts available. The above are some of the styles that you may come across.

Overview of Classic Lolita Dresses

Classic lolita style clothing is characterized by its elegance and refinement. Unlike the sweet lolita or gothic lolita, it places much emphasis on the refined look than the cute and dark ones. There are some outstanding features that classic lolita dresses share. It include neutral colors, simplicity, high-neck collars, a-line skirts and soft floral patterns. According to its features, some girls take classic lolita as their lolita choice.

Red and White Bow Classic Lolita Dress

Simple Style Bow Classic Lolita Dress

The classic lolita dresses are influenced by some vintage clothing styles such as baroque, rococo, victorian, and edwardian. So it is more refined, elegant and mature than the other type of dresses in lolita style. The colors that applied into this style are usually neutral. Brown, ivory, wine, dusty pink, dusty green, navy and black are better choices. There are some details to complete the look. The printed accents in floral, animal, fruits etc are gorgeous. For keeping it in a modest design, the dresses usually with design of a small amount of frills and lace. Skirt length vary from knee-length to longer. And it often feature a corset lacing in the front or the back.
With its modest designs, it is favored by girls who do not show or a mature women.

Gothic Lolita Dresses

By far gothic Lolita has been one of the most well-known Lolita style, and used to be the term that would refer to lolita styles.
Though there is a gothic in its name, gothic lolita is rather different from the usual thinking about goth. As with all lolita styles, it's not very revealing, usually cute or elegant.

Black and White Lace and Ruffle Gothic Lolita Dress

Black and White Removable Sleeves Gothic Lolita Dress

There are mainly two types of gothic lolitas dresses: one is the traditional one which has come to symbolize the style as whole, and the other one with more visible gothic influences. In most cases, the traditional gothic lolita wears plain black clothing with white lace.Another type is not as cute as the first one. It places much emphasis on the gothic elements from the popular western gothic fashion. It also breaks out from purely black, revealing colors such as wine, royal blue, deep plum, white, silver and gold.

Famous Lolita Girl - Aoki Misako

There are so many girls love sweet and cute lolita style dressing. Among these, there are several of them spend much more time and energy on what they look. Then these several girls become popular to lead the large amount of girls dress well in lolita style. Aoki Misako is one famous girl who dress greatly and professional in lolita style.

Appeared in most magazines and some media, Aoki Misako is well know for her sweet interest in lolita style. She will not dress in cuteness only in some special occasions, but also in daily life. From what she wear and accessories on her, we can see that she has really a leading favor for sweet look.

We can get inspiration from dresses, leggings, hats, bags, shoes and so on. If you are new to lolita style, then you can use her way of dressing as reference.