The · Way · of · the · Lolita

As many of you are probably aware, there are two lolita lifestyle communities currently existing on livejournal, egl_beyond and lifestyle_lolis. Both communities have the same general purpose and are populated by lovely people. After speaking with vivcore I have decided to close down egl_beyond and encourage all of you to join lifestyle_lolis. It doesn't make any sense for there to be two competing lifestyle communities and lifestyle_lolis has a more recognizable name and a more impressive layout.

I want to thank everyone for making this community such a lovely place and I sincerely hope to see you on the other side!
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If you have any questions or concerns, please leave me a comment!

For a few years now I've been collecting pieces to make a large, and interesting tea set, for lolita and non lolita tea parties.

Over Christmas with money from my family and some lovely gifts, I now have a tea set to be proud of!!!!!

I'm so excited to finally have a full usable set! (though I'm still collection some pieces) I hope to have a big tea party soon so all my friends can enjoy it too!

I also did a small guide to Lolita teacup hunting. Does any one else here collect tea sets?

X-posted to lifestyle_lolis

It's creeping up on the most magnificent time of the year, isn't it? December and Christmas are just around the corner. Whichever religion you celebrate, the Winter holidays celebrate peace, fellowship and are generally accompanied by sparkly things. I don't know about you, but I love sparkly things!

On that note, Holiday decorations are probably the prettiest all year, and there are cards, gifts, and food to get creative with!

This year, unfortunately, will be spent trying to decorate a college dorm room. I'm not sure how many of you have spent time in these cells, but they are difficult to decorate while remaining functional on a college student's budget.

Nonetheless, what sort of holiday preparations is everyone else making? Any holiday decorating/baking/craft ideas to share?

Also, since it's already snowing here, what of Lolita Winter fashions? Anything to share?

I am a Macoto fan, I really love his works and his drawings enchant me. I also love rococo period art. However I'm not much a fan of posters because of the damages it makes to the wall, and the picture itself when you try and tear it down. So I was wondering if It would be possible for me to frame the prints some way? I don't own any art books with Rococo paintings,  or any of Macoto's books, sadly. So I would most likely be taking the scans and having them blown up some where (Like Kinkos?) And then taking those blown up prints to be framed.
I want to know if this is possible? Has anyone else done this? How did it turn out? Thanks so much!
x posted to: lifestyle_lolis

I believe that I haven't yet posted any pictures of myself to the community. In light of the fact that I have some pictures from Halloween, I shall post them here. Some of the images might not fit directly into "Lolita Fashion" specifically, but I feel that they have the spirit of it intact, and will post them anyway.

( I'm afriad they're a little large... )

Hi my name is Olivia. My favorite lolita style is wa lolita. I have always loved to dress up and have tea parties ever since i was little. Being a lolita made that dream a reality for me. I think the reason i like wa lolita's so much is that they make me fantasize about being a Geisha in Japan. And you can ask my friends when everyone saying "i'm a pirate" or "i'm a ninja" i always say "i'm a Geisha"

Greetings all.

I've just begun reading a book I think others may be interested in, The Death of the Grown-Up, and thought of this community. From what I can tell, we have similar feelings about popular culture today, and the state of society. To an extent, it seems like a lot of us mourn the loss of decorum, etiquette, and other bygone ways.

I find the book to be illuminating as to what happened. I haven't finished it yet, but wanted to share anyway. The gist of it, I think, is that after World War II society was more affluent; and adolescents, instead of using money earned to help out the family, kept it to themselves, making them an attractive demographic. This placed an importance on the adolescent stage of childhood never seen before; it was elevated to "teenage" and the new teenagers began to shape culture instead of adults. And, as these teenagers grew in age, they felt less and less inclined to grow socially; society became more permissive of immature behaviors.

While I don't agree with everything the author has said, I think she has really brought to light a big problem with our society; namely, that adults are marginalized by society and everyone aspires to act childishly.

Hello, I'm Emmy. I adore the lolita fashion and the lifesyle that goes along with it. I have a particular fondness for tea, especially loose teas from Teavana (Teavana.com). What about you? What is your favorite tea?

Hi dolls!

I thought that, now as a hopefully more active member on here, I could contribute something nice, so here we go.

What do young ladies like to do besides drinking tea and sewing? They play!

If there's world peace somewhere, it's on this game page.

I hope you come to love it as much as I do.

Love and liquorice,
~*Kjesta*~

I've been lurking on this comm for several months now and I love it dearly - I just didn't post because I didn't think I could concur something really interesting or such. My life isn't so extremely lolita now, but I really, really want to change that, so I figured I could just as well choose now to introduce myself on here.

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As fatalfille gave the idea of showing our bedrooms, here I am! ^_^v! After doing some Friday cleaning and changing the places of the ornaments, I took some photos. Enjoy! ^.~

Hello, beauties! I joined and watched egl_beyond long ago but I didn't do a little introduction about me ^^. First I want to congratulate moderators and members for the so comfortable and lovely community you made; I hope it will still being like this for a long time and, of course, forever!
You should forgive me, this time. It's kind of hard to talk about something you love with passion sometimes... I would talk about it for hours and hours!

Kisses and hugs for you all, sweeaties! ^_^ ♥!

Why, Hello there!

Since I feel I have been way to silent, I felt it was about time to make a introduction. My very first lolita-Introduction, mind you!
Not that I have not been in the scene for long, i've seen myself as a lolita since I was fourteen and enjoyed every minute of it. I have simply not had the correct "spark" to write one, but seeing how things have changed regarding this, it was about time to break the line from lurker to member.

( Oh my, this might be long )

I apologize if I'm stepping on toes here and if I am, please feel free to let me know how to modify my post so that I'm not.

It seems that there's recently been some discussion of more traditional Victorian lifestyles and subjects such as calling cards and monograms. I’ve recently started a bit of a side project that I hope to eventually be a Lolita lifestyle blog from a classic/gothic/EGA approach. I thought that some others here might find my most recent of ventures interesting, so I'd like to share it here. Starting today, I’ll be posting some bits from an etiquette guide published in 1881. I’ve been reading through it the past few weeks and I found it intriguing. I'm not incredibly busy right now, so hopefully I'll be able to post almost daily. I’m syndicating the blog via livejournal and it can be found at darkdeca. Please feel free to join, comment, and enjoy!

Thank you!

I was thinking a while back about how Marie Antoinette had her own beautiful monogram that decorated so many of her beautiful things, and came to the conclusion that every Lolita deserves to have her own equally regal monogram to use on items made especially for or by her!

This is one I designed for myself  intertwining the V and H of my name to create a somewhat over the top monogram, which has since started to appear on various fancy items I've made for myself.

I'd love to see some of the monograms people here come up with for their own Lolita  households?