Babelcute and Lolifish: The Easy Way to Translate High Fashion to Lolita

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

A large slice of a Lolita's pride is based on the ability to fashion herself eclectically, without necessarily having the approval of the wider fashion community. This, however, does not equate to closing our eyes, covering our ears and singing BLAH BLAH BLAH when it comes to what happens to be in Vogue. If we look closely, we can see ties between our own special style, and what is currently 'on trend'.

Babelcute: the highlighting of current fashions that work well with Lolita.

Lolifish: the featuring of designer and high street finds that make good Lolita sense.

This series will be full of outfits, hair, make-up and accessories. Tried and tested (where possible!), polished, well put together ideas.

A Lolita and a fashionista? Surely not...

In the beginning

Il existait une différence entre avaler de l’information, et la comprendre.
A difference exists between having information, and understanding it.

Almost two weeks ago, I was trawling the internet for prom dresses. I wanted something…different. Tired of the slink-satin-jewel toned-clones (for only 500$!) that most of the websites were throwing at me, I returned to google and typed 'Victoriana'. From there, I quickly discovered the world of Lolita. A world that tied many loose ends of my personality. A world that wore what I loved, but hadn’t come across before. A world that made sense. A world, that I had been missing from for too long.

Since then, I’ve spent a large chunk of my spare time sieving the internet for Lolita information. Handbooks, magazine copies, blogs, vlogs, advice pages, shopping sites – everything I could find in English I read, everything in Japanese I translated.

Why am I starting a blog so early in my Lolita discovery? I’ve decided to publish my journey from the very beginning, all the way from non-Lolita, to Lolita. It will mark my steps, my mistakes, my successes; everything. And I hope those of you, who, like me, are starting from the bottom and working their way up will find something useful, will avoid an easy-to-make mistake, will try something that worked. And for those of who are already on their journey, I hope you can offer advice!